Love revived!...

   No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.  

No one who continues to sin has either 

seen him or known him. - I John 3:6

"As bodily nourishment restores lost strength,

so the Eucharist strengthens our charity, which 

tends to be weakened in daily life; and this living charity 

wipes away venial sins (Cf. Council of Trent). 

By giving Himself to us Christ revives our love

and enables us to break our disordered

attachments to creatures and root ourselves in him (…).”

Catechism of the Catholic Church (#1394)*


 Priest teaching Catechism ~ Jules Alexis Muenier

*The Catechism is bounding with beauty, truth and goodness regarding the Eucharist.  Perhaps a fruitful exercise during Lent would be to discover and meditate on these gems!

Daily segments of the Catechism via email:
http://flocknote.com/catechism

The Catechism in a Year – Ascension 

(With Fr Michael Schmitz)
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Also remembering ...
St Casimir
1458-1484
Patron of Poland and Lithuania
Feast Day - March 4
St. Casimir - YouTube (2 mins) 

"Daily, daily sing to Mary.  

Sing my soul her praises due!
All her Feasts.  Her actions worship.  

With heart's devotion true."
From song, "Daily sing to Mary" - 

favorite song of St Casimir

St Casimir, pray for us!

Consuming zeal for souls...

 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor,

serving the Lord.  Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction,

faithful in prayer. - Romans 12:11-12

"The offspring of this intensity of love

for our Eucharistic Lord

should be a consuming zeal for the 
gathering of souls into the fold of Christ.”

St Katharine Drexel

American ~ 1858 - 1955
Heiress, educator, founder of schools
Entered religious life at age 31

Foundress - Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament

aka 'the anti-Margaret Sanger'

Feast Day - March 3

 

“And here is the passive way – 

to be filled unto the fullness of God. 
The passive way – I abandon myself to it, not 

in a multiplicity of trials, extraordinary penances 

accomplished, practices of great works – but in 

peaceful abandonment to the tenderness of Jesus, 
which I must try to imitate, and by being in 

constant union with His meek and humble heart."  

St Katharine Drexel

Click here: St. Katharine Drexel - YouTube (2 mins)
Click here: Saint Katharine Drexel - YouTube (2 mins - CCTNtv)

Top painting: The Good Shepherd ~ Minerva Teichert

St Katharine Drexel, pray for us!

My first morning's hour belongs to the Lord...

  This is the day the LORD has made; 

let us rejoice and be glad in it. 

Psalm 118:24

  "The duties and cares of the day ahead crowd about us when we awake in the morning (if they have not already dispelled our night's rest).  Now arises the uneasy question:  How can all this be accommodated in one day?  When will I do this, when that?  How shall I start on this and that? 

    Thus agitated, we would like to run around and rush forth.  We must then take the reins in hand and say, "Take it easy!  Not any of this may touch me now.  My first morning's hour belongs to the Lord.  I will tackle the day's work which He charges me with, and He will give me the power to accomplish it."

    So I will go to the altar of God.  Here it is not a question of my minute, petty affairs, but of the great offering of reconciliation.  I may participate in that, purify myself and be made happy, and lay myself with all my doings and troubles along with the sacrifice on the altar.  And when the Lord comes to me then in Holy Communion, then I may ask Him, "Lord, what do you want of me?" (St Teresa).  And after quiet dialogue, I will go to that which I see as my next duty."

From Essays on Woman

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

“The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it.  It comes the very moment you wake up each morning.  All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.  And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in."  - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Second Sunday of Lent: Divine Explosion...

 Second Sunday of Lent

"Christ showed His disciples the glory of His radiance
to which He configures those who are His." - St Thomas Aquinas

Fra Angelico

"Through your Transfiguration, O Christ, 

You returned Adam's nature to its original splendor, 

restoring its very elements to the glory 

and brilliance of Your divinity." - Byzantine Liturgy

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"Christian faith's steady gaze upon Jesus 
transforms us here and now." - Fr Hans Urs von Balthasar

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For over all, his glory will be shelter and protection: 
shade from the parching heat of day, 
refuge and cover from storm and rain (Isaiah 4:6).
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Excerpt below from:  Letters To A Brother Priest

Co-authors:  Rev Fr Vincent Martin Lucia/Rev Msgr Josefino Ramirez

"Peter, James and John witnessed the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor. The whole world will witness the glorious transfiguration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. 

It will have the exact opposite effect of the bombing of Nagasaki. At the transfiguration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, there will be an explosion of divine energy which will release the power of His love and renew the face of the earth. Then the world will see Real Power! All will be made well. All will belong to His Heart. All will be  made one.

In the meantime, there are five graces we receive each time we visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. By His glorious wounds we are the ones who are transfigured and changed through His healing love. 

Restoration, sanctification, transformation, reparation and salvation are the graces being poured out graciously upon us with each holy hour we make.

Like Peter... this is why we should exclaim in His Divine Presence, 

'Lord, how good it is for us to be here!'"

"The Blessed Sacrament is the first and supreme 
object of our worship. We must preserve in the depths

of our hearts a constant and uninterrupted,
profound adoration of this precious pledge 

of Divine Love." - St Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, CGS

Community in Mission - Blog of the Archdiocese of Washington  

Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent (Msgr Charles Pope)

(EXCELLENT!)

When more is more...

  "Prefer nothing, absolutely nothing, 

to the love of Christ." - St Benedict

"The goods of the soul are an end;

the goods of the body are for an end.

Hence concerning temporal goods

we ought to seek according to a measure,

but concerning the goods of the soul

we ought to seek as much as we can."

St Thomas Aquinas

Painting: The Lamb's Supper - Bryan Bustard