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Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Great Lent: Open the Route to God for your Opponents. I Suggest a Different Kind of Envy

03/27/2018

Open the Route to God for your Opponents Don’t ever hurt one of your neighbours by using words in two senses. He could reply in the same way and you would both be wandering off the path of love. Go to him and warn him with affectionate sincerity. When you have between you removed the cause of your unhappiness, you will both of you be free from anxiety and bitterness. Don’t recall to your memory

Monday of the Sixth Week of Great Lent: How to Love a Friend … and Persecute an Enemy. Our Enemies do not Know the Gratitude We Owe Them.

03/26/2018

How to Love a Friend … and Persecute an Enemy Augustine said: ‘The evil-doer is sad when he sees that his enemy has taken a warning and avoided punishment.’ Gregory said: ‘We are only faithful to our friends when our actions match our promises. ‘People have no right to persecute their enemies with the sword, but they should persecute them with prayer.’ Jerome said: ‘Often our friends are only so-called friends: not being able to

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Great Lent: How to Eradicate Ill-Feeling. If Someone Causes You Trouble.

03/22/2018

How to Eradicate Ill-Feeling Do you maintain that you are keeping the commandment of love towards your neighbour? If so, why is there so much bitter ill-feeling in you against this or that person? Is that not perhaps a sign that you are preferring transient goods to loving, and that just to possess them you are struggling even to the point of hostility to your brothers and sisters? Sadness and ill-feeling go hand in hand.

Thursday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent: Shut No One out from Your Love. Many Languages but One Human Nature.

03/15/2018

Shut No One out from Your Love Do all you can to love everyone. If you are not yet able to, at the very least don’t hate anyone. Yet you won’t even manage this if you have not reached detachment from the things of this world. You must love everyone with all your soul, hoping, however, only in God and honouring him with all your heart. Christ’s friends are not loved by all, but they

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent: You Cannot Live with Feet Only. If You Love God You Will Love your Neighbour, If You Love your Neighbour You Will Love God

03/14/2018

You Cannot Live with Feet Only Those who are pursuing the same objective, if they live together, will find many advantages in this sharing of their life. In the first place, none of us is self-sufficient when it is a question of material needs. We all need one another to procure the necessities of life. The foot, for example, is capable of doing certain things on its own. If the absurd could happen and it

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent: Light, Fire and Flame. If You Think You Can Go It Alone

03/13/2018

Light, Fire and Flame Love in its nature makes a human being like God, as far as is possible for a human being. The soul is intoxicated by the effects of it. Its characteristics are a fountain of faith, an abyss of patience, an ocean of humility. Love is the complete repudiation of any unkind thought about one’s neighbour, since, ‘Love thinks no evil.’ (1 Cor. 13:5] Love, unchangeable tranquility and our adoption as children

Monday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent: Loving your Neighbour in Need. Make your Love as Big as the World.

03/12/2018

Loving your Neighbour in Need A brother asked an aged monk: ‘There are two brothers: one of them leads a life of solitude six days a week and does much penance, while the other is dedicated to the service of the sick. Which of the two is behaving in the way that is more acceptable to God?’ The old man answered him: ‘The brother who is always making a retreat would never attain the heights

Friday of the Third Week of Great Lent: We are all Begging to have God. We Cannot but Love God.

03/09/2018

We are all Begging to have God It is natural to look for beauty and to love it, even though the idea of what is beautiful varies between one person and another. Now, what is more marvelous than the divine beauty? What can you think of that is more likely to give pleasure than the magnificence of God? What desire could be more ardent, more irresistible than the thirst which God inspires in the soul

Tuesday of the Second Week of Great Lent: Purify the Roots and You will be Entirely Pure. The Perfect Person’s Rule of Life

02/27/2018

Purify the Roots and You will be Entirely Pure Discipline of the body, if it is combined with peace of mind, purifies it from all material tendencies. Discipline of the soul makes it humble and purifies it from the impressions that push it in a material direction. Discipline effects the transition from the emotions of passion to the activity of contemplation, or, better, it raises the soul above all terrestrial objects and feeds it on

Trinity: God Is for Us

02/12/2018

Love is just like prayer; it is not so much an action that we do, but a dialogue that already flows through us. We don’t decide to “be loving”; rather, to love is to allow our deepest and truest nature to show itself. The “Father” doesn’t decide to love the “Son.” Fatherhood is the flow from Father to Son, one hundred percent. The Son does not choose now and then to release some love to

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Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Great Lent: Open the Route to God for your Opponents. I Suggest a Different Kind of Envy

Monday of the Sixth Week of Great Lent: How to Love a Friend … and Persecute an Enemy. Our Enemies do not Know the Gratitude We Owe Them.

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Great Lent: How to Eradicate Ill-Feeling. If Someone Causes You Trouble.

Thursday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent: Shut No One out from Your Love. Many Languages but One Human Nature.

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent: You Cannot Live with Feet Only. If You Love God You Will Love your Neighbour, If You Love your Neighbour You Will Love God

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent: Light, Fire and Flame. If You Think You Can Go It Alone

Monday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent: Loving your Neighbour in Need. Make your Love as Big as the World.

Friday of the Third Week of Great Lent: We are all Begging to have God. We Cannot but Love God.

Tuesday of the Second Week of Great Lent: Purify the Roots and You will be Entirely Pure. The Perfect Person’s Rule of Life

Trinity: God Is for Us

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