Saintward bound...

  "God would never inspire me 

with desires which cannot be realised; 

so in spite of my littleness I can 

hope to be a saint." - St Therese of Lisieux

"As believers, all of us are called to 

live our lives for and from the Eucharist 

because then we will be 

living our lives for and from Jesus. 

These graces, these principles, 

were and are the building blocks we see 

in the lives of all the saints.  They can 

be found in every single biography 

of every single saint." 

Fr Barry Braum 

That I May See:  Journeying from 

Spiritual Confusion and Blindness

to the Radiance of the Eucharist

Artist: Ellen Busselli

Longing fulfilled...

  As a deer pants for streams of water, so my soul

pants for You, O God.  My soul thirsts for God,

for the living God. ... Deep calls to deep. - Psalm 42:1,2,7a

 

 

 

"The house of my soul is narrow.

O let it be enlarged by You!

It is very ruinous;

be pleased to repair it."

St Augustine

 

Image: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Triumph of the Eucharist

We are expected in heaven...

 "Our goal must be infinite, not the finite. 

The infinite is our homeland.

 We have always been expected in heaven."
St Carlo Acutis

 

"The more Eucharist we receive,

the more we will become like Jesus,

so that on this earth we will

have a foretaste of Heaven."

St Carlo Acutis

1991-2006/Death from Leukemia

Computer genius/Eucharistic passion

Carlo Acutis Eucharistic Miracles Exhibition

Beatified: 10/10/20 in Assisi

Canonized: 09/07/25 in Roma

Feast Day - Oct 12

 

 

"When we face the sun we get a tan...

but when we stand before Jesus 

in the Eucharist we become saints." 

 St Carlo Acutis

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Beatification Carlo Acutis: Computer whiz first millennial declared Blessed

17 Things Every Catholic Should Know About Carlo Acutis

St Carlo Acutis, pray for us!

Solution to our troubles...

 The Lord's Day is the lord of days... but also remembering today>>> 

Pope St John XIII  

"My life seems destined to be spent in 

the light irradiating from the Blessed Sacrament, 

and it is the heart of Jesus that I must look to 

for the solution of all my troubles." - St John XXIII

"In the Blessed Sacrament

a heavenly school is open to you,

with the best teacher

one can possibly imagine,
Jesus Christ Himself."

Pope St John XXIII

Italy ~ 1881-1963

Pope ~ 1958-1963

Always close to the suffering and the poor

Dubbed by media as "the good Pope"

Feast Day - Oct 11*

*Opening day of Vatican II (1962)

Click here: List of encyclicals of Pope John XXIII 

Click here: John XXIII: key points in the life of 'The Good Pope' - YouTube

Click here: TOP 25 QUOTES BY POPE JOHN XXIII (of 57)
Click here: WMF: St. John XXIII - Pope of Innocence and Goodness - YouTube (5 mins)
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Perhaps the testimony of the world 

at the death of Pope John XXIII 

was best expressed by a newspaper drawing of the earth

shrouded in mourning with the simple caption, 

"A Death in the Family."

St John XXIII, pray for us!

Simplicity - of word and faith...

  In the beginning was the Word, 

and the Word was with God, 

and the Word was God. – John 1:1

"O Lord, how clear, how precise, how strong, how powerful 

are Your words.  Hardly are the words pronounced: 

'Woman, you are cured' - and she is cured immediately. 

'This is My Body' - and it is His Body. 

'This is My Blood' - and it is His Blood.

Who can speak in that manner if not the One 

Who holds everything in His hand?

Who can be trusted if not the One for Whom 

doing and speaking are one and the same thing?

My soul, accept these words without reservation: 

believe as firmly as the Lord spoke.

Believe with as much humility as He shows authority and power.

The Lord wants to find in your faith 

the same simplicity which He put in His words."

Wilhelm Bousset (+1920)

Image: by artist Giuseppe Crespi