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The Pope is so important that even if a large group of Bishops were to break away from him they would not undermine the essential unity of the Church or her teaching office.
Prayer can be like a meeting of members of a happy, united family who sit together, after a busy day, in companionable silence.
Whoever pauses in His work, to pray - alone or in shared prayer - can glance towards Heaven, where Christ reigns with the Saints in glory.
True friends in Christ can help to draw one another closer to God's heart. Even at a distance of many miles, some souls can soar 'upwards' to God, together, by God's Will and power. God has shown each when the other is praying, and then enables each to help the other.
The Church is the Body of Christ and we should not separate ourselves from it through disobedience, dissent or schism
If we hope to be saved, the importance of Baptism cannot be exaggerated. It is the means chosen by God by which a person's state becomes glorious. Sin is banished, and Divine Life is given, life which enables that person to live in union with God, and in the hope of attaining Heaven, by the grace of Christ.
It is no small matter, in Christ's sight, that many Christians don't complete their Christian initiation because their leaders have invalid Orders, and so children who have been baptised are not confirmed and do not receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.
As we asked the saints to pray for us in the liturgy, I saw the saints in glory, their hands out, as they interceded for us who prayed below.
I was shown a symbol of the Holy Trinity: three triangles, with a fire like molten lava (representing Divine Love) at the heart of each.
Those men called to the Priesthood who surrender family life with reluctance, as a sacrifice wrung from them by circumstance, are never as happy as those who are overwhelmed by the knowledge of God's love for them and see beauty and freedom in this total self-giving to God and His Will in imitation of Christ.
Those men called to the Priesthood who surrender family life with reluctance, as a sacrifice wrung from them by circumstance, are never as happy as those who are overwhelmed by the knowledge of God's love for them and see beauty and freedom in this total self-giving to God and His Will in imitation of Christ.
I was shown a symbol of the Holy Trinity: three triangles, with a fire like molten lava (representing Divine Love) at the heart of each.
Those who oppose the legitimate teaching authority of the Church and develop a habit of defiance are, perhaps without realising it, defying Christ Himself
Some of the beliefs and practices recommended today by Catholic writers and teachers are not in accord with the teaching of the Pope and Bishops.
"Would St. Paul Recognise it?" The Lord showed me the 'New Gospel' preached today by those who dissent from the Church's teachings, and who rarely mention sin or punishment, and speak as if it is easy to be saved, no matter how a person chooses to live.
Each Divine Person is at work to draw a soul into the heights of union. Father, Son and Holy Spirit - One God - are lovingly attentive, and draw willing souls up high.
Life in Christ is like a constantly moving process of loving guidance from the Three Divine Persons. This draws willing souls up high, to greater sanctity.
The pure truth of the gospel, like a shining thread, appears in one age to be extreme in one way, and in another age to be extreme in another way, but is visible for all who wish to see it.
In contemplation we can be held as if in a great 'breath': held in the 'wind' which is the Holy Spirit, a sweet breath in which the soul is carried and consoled, and held as if at God's heart.
Christ loves to bring His friends refreshment and new courage through His Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament. Whoever adores Christ before the tabernacle or monstrance, or receives Holy Communion, can be sure that, standing very close to Christ, are His Holy Mother and all the Saints too.