Among all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is more perfect, more noble, more useful, and more full of joy. 

The sea symbolizes this life and the instability of the visible world; the storm points to every kind of trial or difficulty that oppresses human beings.  

If Christ is a present event, we meet him every day. 

In the same movement in which the Son delivers himself, dedicates himself, and sacrifices himself, the Father receives, transfigures, and glorifies him. 

"Cardinal Sarah is a spiritual teacher, who speaks out of the depths of silence with the Lord, out of his interior union with him, and thus really has something to say to each one of us."

— Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

One of the most helpful books I have read recently is Benedictine Abbot Jean-Charles Nault's superb The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times.

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self.

The soul is further brought into union through the mediation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Christ gives himself to his people gradually.

This Heart is a pierced Heart.