The longest journey is the journey inward. Dag Hammarksjold
Category Archives: Thought For The Day
Let us realize that — Heaven, Calvary, and the Tabernacle have but one language — God is love . . . . . CARITAS! Pray to love more. Mother Patricia O’Connor, CDS Founding Superior, Friend, and Guide
We must admit that we need help from God to arrive at God’s expectations. We must distrust ourselves — because we realize how weak we are to live up to the basics. We must call upon God meekly — how much we need Him. We must rely not on ourselves but on God. Successful people […]
In the third Eucharistic Prayer we pray “by the power and working of the Holy Spirit, you give life to all things.” All, without exception. You and I can plant and water, but “God gives the increase.” Notwithstanding, we must do our part or God will not give the increase. What is our part? Principally […]
When God gives Himself, He places us in an attitude of waiting. This should be our pervading climate — remembering always that the soul goes through many stages — at each state it is illuminated, receiving a light that is always new; at each new stage it is flooded with the light of Wisdom, and […]
As we stumble along God’s ways, we must seek integrity of life, seek humility of life — we will not then be astonished at our own weakness or failures; every form of resentment or discouragement is killed at its roots. Mother Patricia O’Connor, C.D.S. Founding Superior, Friend, and Guide
It is all God’s work — the Kingdom of God is close at hand! He tells us, “There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased the Father to give you the Kingdom.” He asks only this — “to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God.” […]
Pray for the grace of grateful recognition. This is different from the feeling of contrition that we sometimes try to wring from a withered heart. A truly contrite heart is a heart crushed, not by remorse, but by Love, and it is precisely because a contrite heart is moved by love that it can change […]
A change of heart begins in the recognition that we have been wanting in love toward God and toward our fellow travelers. Somewhere in Scripture there is this statement: “If you wish to come back, Israel — it is Yahweh who speaks — it is to Me you must return.” Think of your apologies as […]
. . . is the self-giving that reaches out beyond all barriers and limitations. We cannot stay far from others indefinitely, any more than we can stay far from God. The possibility of changing our ways is always before us, and it is always possible to reconcile ourselves with each other. This is the mediation […]