Strengthened by the Spirit of Love
We read in the Song of Songs that love is strong as Death, and the promise of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of love, is that of an outpouring of strengths, of wisdom and fortitude and understanding...
We read in the Song of Songs that love is strong as Death, and the promise of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of love, is that of an outpouring of strengths, of wisdom and fortitude and understanding...
The man whose heart is in accord with God’s makes no display, nor does God choose him for his appearance or by listening to the voice of the people.
When the battle of life finally draws to a close, our Father, whom we have never seen, will send for us to come home, the home we have never known.
It is by true piety that men of God cast out the hostile power of the air which opposes godliness.
Ordinary human language is inadequate for the Church to express her Easter gladness, but from her heart, ecstatic with jubilation, breaks forth a mystic word: Alleluia!
If we seek peace as the world gives it, then it is certain that we will never know peace or that our peace will be extremely fragile and of short duration.
If, after baptism, God deems [his children] worthy to remain in this life only for a little while, let them not rest from praying and saying: Be my help, do not desert me (Ps 27:9).
There is arguably no thinker in the past century who brought more attention to victims than René Girard. The French anthropologist based his whole multidisciplinary theory of human behavior on the "victim mechanism."
The experience of waiting will continue to be wrongly understood unless one sees that we are meant to learn from it [and] that the deeper meaning of life is to keep watch.
Father Alfred Delp, S.J. (1907–1945), imprisoned and martyred by the Nazis, wrote a stunning series of spiritual meditations while awaiting his execution.