Salvation

In the end, we will find ourselves face to face with the infinite beauty of God (1 Corinthians 13:12) and be able to read with admiration and happiness the mystery of the universe, which with us will share in unending plenitude. Even now we are journeying towards the Sabbath of eternity, the new Jerusalem, toward our common home in heaven. Jesus says: “I make all things new.” (Revelation 21:5). Eternal life will be a shared experience of awe, in which each creature, resplendently transfigured, will take its rightful place and have something to give those poor who will have been liberated once and for all.

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Witness

Everything about us, all that we are, should proclaim the gospel from the house tops. All that we do and our whole lives should be … a living witness, a reflection of Jesus.

Blessedl Charles de Foucauld

Indifference

The Christian is not only responsible for what he does or fails to do, but also for what he allows to happen to others.

Johann-Baptist Metz

The spiritual life

The spiritual life is first of all life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Thomas Merton

Becoming living gospels

The Holy Spirit writes no more gospels except in our hearts. We, if we are holy, are the paper; our sufferings… are the ink. The workings of the Holy Spirit are his pen, and with it he writes in the living gospel.

Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Gift of his heart

Jesus Christ has given the precious gift of his Heart, for from no one else can you learn holiness, he being the inexhaustible source of true holiness.

Saint Teresa Verzeri

Evening

In the evening of life you will be examined on love.

St. John of the Cross

Remembering Jesus

Let the remembrance of Jesus be present with your every breath, and you will then understand the meaning of stillness.

Saint John Climacus

God in all

Saint John of the Cross taught that all the goodness present in the realities and experiences of this world “is present in God eminently and infinitely, or more properly, in each of these sublime realities is God.”

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