Deepest hunger: satisfied!

 Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ,

the Son of the living God. - John 6:68,69

Harvesting wheat fields ~ Henry Moret

"Farmers everywhere provide bread for all humanity,

but it is Christ alone who is the bread of life....

Even if all the physical hunger of the world were satisfied,

even if everyone who is hungry were fed by his or her own labor or by

the generosity of others, the deepest hunger of man would still exist....

Therefore, I say, Come, all of you, to Christ.  He is the bread of life. 

Come to Christ and you will never be hungry again."

Pope St John Paul II

Cloistering the heart...

“Your Face is all lovely and Your heart all inviting,

but my thoughts alas! go wandering far from You. 

Come, O God of my heart,

gather together my scattered mental powers

and fix them upon Yourself.” – St Gertrude

 

"We come to Holy Mass to hearken to the words of the Word, to be wounded by them, to be espoused by them in such a way that, as the one Body of Christ, we are drawn upward with our Divine Head to the Father in the Holy Spirit. A listening Church will be one in which Saint Paul's goal for the Corinthians is necessarily fulfilled: "power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment" (1 Cor 7:35)."

 

Dom Mark Daniel Kirby

Prior of Silverstream Priory

Stamullen, County Meath, Ireland

Click here: Vultus Christi

 

Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity prayed:

"O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life in listening to You, to become wholly teachable that I may learn all from You. 

Then through all nights, all voids, all helplessness, 

I want to gaze on You always and remain in Your great light."

Fully living - without fear!

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear,

and he who fears is not perfected in love. - I John 4: 18

 

 ‘I cannot fear a God who made

Himself so small for me! […]

I love Him!

In fact, He is nothing

but Love and Mercy!’ (LT 266).”

 

 

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Doctor of the Church

 

 

My cup overflows...

 My cup overflows... Psalm 23:5

“Look then on Jesus, the author and preserver of faith: 

in complete sinlessness He suffered, and at the hands of those

who were His own, and was numbered among the wicked. 

As you drink the cup of the Lord Jesus (how glorious it is!),

give thanks to the Lord, the giver of all blessings.”

 From a letter of

St. Raymond of Peñafort

nee Spain~ 1175-1275

Lawyer, Dominican (contemporary of St Thomas Aquinas)

Wise and holy Confessor

Founder - Order of Our Lady of Ransom

Compiled Church's legal documents into one source (Canon Law)

Patron of Lawyers and Canon Lawyers

Feast Day - January 7

Click here: St. Raymond of Peñafort - YouTube (2 mins)

St. Raymond of Peñafort, pray for us!

 

Soul power

Then Jesus declared, "I am the Bread of life.  

He who comes to me will never go hungry, 

and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. - John 6:35

 Brother André had a particular love for the Eucharist

and encouraged people to go to Communion frequently:

“If you ate only one meal a week

would you survive?

It is the same for your soul.

Nourish it with the Blessed Sacrament.”

St. André Bessette

Canada ~ 1845-1937

Holy Cross Brother, porter

Miracle Man of Montreal

Great devotion to Eucharist and St Joseph

Feast Day - January 6

 

"I am only a man, just like you," time after time Br André Bessette reminded petitioners who came to him.  Known as a miracle worker of healing during his lifetime, this humble lay brother insisted on giving all the credit to God, the faith of those healed, and the intercession of St Joseph.  Quietly, he said, 'I will pray for you.'  Time after time, healing came. 

...."He spent his whole life speaking of others to God, and of God to others," said a friend of Br André. "It is difficult to say at what point in his life work began and ended, and at what point prayer started and ended: the two seemed to flow so naturally one into the other."

St. André Bessette, pray for us!

When Alfred (later to be Brother André) Bessette came to the Holy Cross Brothers in 1870, he carried with him a note from his pastor saying,"I am sending you a saint." By his death, he was receiving 80,000 letters each year from the sick who sought his prayers and healing.  He died in 1937, at age 91.  A million people filed before his coffin.

“It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints

the most exquisitely beautiful pictures,” said St. André Bessette.

Click here: St. Andre Bessette, C.S.C. - YouTube (3 mins)