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Where a married couple really love one another, and love God, they want to do His Will. He wants them to be faithful to one another, and to refuse to use sinful means of seeking pleasure or avoiding conception. They can be sure, by their faithfulness to God's Will (even if this means abstinence, pain or heartache) that they offer an unmarred expression of love to their Creator and also to one another.
A married couple who really love one another, and really love God, want to do His Will, which is that they remain faithful to one another, and welcome any children who are conceived through their union and through God's gift of life.
Someone who bears a fire of faith within, but whose progress is blocked by sin, is like a volcano which emits not fire, but acrid smoke.
A Stairway to Heaven: It was Christ who welcomed me at the start of the long 'climb' to Heaven, and who encouraged me to live by faith.
A Stairway to Heaven: It was Christ who welcomed me at the start of the long 'climb' to Heaven, and who encouraged me to live by faith.
If we are humble, repentant, loving, and faithful to Christ, His glory will shine out from our souls as if from a diamond
By encouraging people in their faith and by being faithful to prayer it's as though I am drawing down gifts from Heaven.
Untrue or malicious statements about aspects of the Catholic Faith endanger the hearers like dangerous missiles; they threaten spiritual lives.
Faith is like a special piece of glass, given to a half-blind person in a misty country: a glass through which he can gain a clear view of the road ahead.
God showed me how the greatest flame of charity burns in the heart of those who would bring faith and hope to tormented and tortured people - as well as physical help and healing.
The Lord showed me that He sent out an arrow of faith, at my prayerful request, to someone in danger of spiritual death.
Even when we trust in God and try to serve Him, it can seem as if life is a puzzle, with unexpected and ill-fitting parts. If we persevere, however, we shall see how Christ has been at work to make a special pattern out of those apparent oddments, for a special reason.
God, who loves us, is like the most faithful lover who dazzles his beloved with His gifts, but touches her heart most deeply by his sweetness and gentle care.
God is like the most faithful and tender lover, who moves His beloved above all by His sweetness and gentle care
God, who loves us, is like the most faithful lover who dazzles his beloved with His gifts, but touches her heart most deeply by his sweetness and gentle care.
If we are one with Christ in the Mass in the living memorial of the Sacrifice of the Cross, we are one with Christ in His Eternal self-offering in the inner life of the Blessed Trinity. That is why the Holy Eucharist is a pledge of future glory as well as a sacrifice for sin. To belong to Christ and to receive Him in Holy Communion is a foretaste of the union and communion that we can enjoy for all Eternity if we remains faithful.
If we are one with Christ in the Mass in the living memorial of the Sacrifice of the Cross, we are one with Christ in His Eternal self-offering in the inner life of the Blessed Trinity. That is why the Holy Eucharist is a pledge of future glory as well as a sacrifice for sin. To belong to Christ and to receive Him in Holy Communion is a foretaste of the union and communion that we can enjoy for all Eternity if we remains faithful.
The Christian life consists of trust in Christ, giving up sin, following His way even in darkness, and moving towards the Glory of heaven.
It was because so few Catholics knew much about the Faith, or about the stages of the spiritual life, that God taught me so much about our Christ, Who is the living image of Our Father in Heaven and on fire with the same Divine Love.
Jesus suffered in body and soul, and we need not feel guilty if we do not 'feel' fervent and joyful in our difficulties, as long as we are actively trying to do God's Will, and to remain faithful.
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