Sunday, September 6, 2026

Abandoning God's mysteries to God...

   "The Eucharist bathes the 
tormented soul in light and love." 
 St. Bernadette Soubirous

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"Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly
to adore the Sacrament of Christ,
not to discuss high things, or wish to 
penetrate difficulties, but to bow down 
to secret things in humble veneration,
and to abandon God's mysteries to God,
for Truth deceives no man -
Almighty God can do all things.  Amen."
St. Paul of the Cross

Saturday, September 5, 2026

Belonging entirely to Jesus...

    For every living soul belongs to me, 
the father as well as the son -
 both alike belong to me.  - Ezekiel 18:4a

Eucharistic adoration

"Our Hours of adoration will be 
special hours of reparation for sins, and 
intercession for the needs of the whole world, 
exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity 
to the healing, sustaining and transforming 
rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist."

St Teresa of Calcutta
nee Albania ~ 1910-1997
Foundress - Missionaries of Charity
Co-patron of India
26 August 1910 ~ 5 September 1997
Feast Day - September 5
Photo credit:  Pascal DeLoche/Godong
 

"By blood, I am Albanian.  
By citizenship, an Indian. 
By faith, I am a Catholic nun.  
As to my calling, I belong to the world.  
As to my heart, I belong entirely to the 
Heart of Jesus."- St Teresa of Calcutta


St Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us!

Friday, September 4, 2026

Sacrament of awesome might...

   As you have heard from the beginning,
His command is that you walk in love. - II John 6

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"Hail, Thou Living Bread from heaven!
Sacrament of awesome might!
I adore Thee - I adore Thee!
Every moment, day and night.
Holiest Jesu! - Heart of Mary!
O'er me shed your gifts divine:
Holiest Jesu! my Redeemer!
All my heart and soul are Thine."
Edward Caswall

Painting: St Therese strewing roses.  Artist unknown

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Good and holy places...

  I rejoiced with those who said to me, 
"Let us go to the house of the LORD."
Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem. 
Psalm 122:1-2

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Non enim pro locis res, 
sed pro bonis rebus loca amanda sunt
"Things are not to be loved 
for the sake of a place,
but places are to be loved
for the sake of their good things."

 Pope St Gregory the Great
Italy ~ 540-604
Doctor of the Church
Prolific writer, untiring servant for Christ
Compiled Antiphony (chants of Church used for Liturgy)
Established Schola Cantorum 
(Rome's training school for choristers)
Patron:  Popes, Teachers, Choirboys, Musicians, Singers
Feast Day - September 3 

Photo credit: Church Kneeling, Lawrence, OP


“It is not by faith that you will come 
to know [God] but by love;
not by mere conviction, but by action.”
 St Gregory the Great

"The sacred Scriptures grow with
the one who reads them."
St Gregory the Great

"You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, 
but by taking it slowly."- St Gregory the Great

St Gregory the Great, pray for us!

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Caught up into a rhythm...

 "The grace flowing from this wellspring (Eucharist)
renews mankind, life and history."
 St John Paul II, Dies Domini, Pentecost Sunday, 31 May 1998

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"The Blessed Sacrament is the 
Sacrament of Unity; and when you receive it, it 
does not merely produce in you more charity toward 
your neighbor, more loyalty toward the Church,
more unselfishness in your human attachments.
It makes you more at unity with yourself;
it catches up our life into a rhythm 
that echoes the heavenly music...
It comes to you... full of that unifying love
which is the bond of the Blessed Trinity."
Msgr Ronald Knox

Painting above: Memoir Writing ~ August Muller