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

"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 Mother Teresa of Calcutta
nee Albania ~ 1910-1997

Foundress - Missionaries of Charity
Co-patron of India

August 26, 1910 ~ September 5, 1997
Click here: Mother Teresa: How to Love God - YouTube
(in her words...)

 

"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 Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) Biography
Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Peacemaker, Pioneer, Legend

Click here: Holy Eucharist in the Life of Bl. Teresa of Calcutta (Fr Sebastian)

St Mother Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us!

More you...

"The grace flowing from this wellspring (Eucharist)

renews mankind, life and history."

 St John Paul II, Dies Domini, Pentecost Sunday, 31 May 1998

"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

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. - Ps 122:1-2
  

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

Click here: St Gregory the Great - YouTube (3 mins)
TOP 25 QUOTES BY POPE GREGORY I | A-Z Quotes

St Gregory the Great, pray for us!

The worth of a moment...

"You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time

you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will

give you more strength during life and more consolation

at the hour of your death and during eternity."- St. Alphonsus

"Making my meditation before the picture of the Blessed John Vianney,

he seemed to say to me with an interior voice:

'The secret of my life was that I lived for the moment.

I did not say, I must pray here for the next hour, but only for this moment. 

I did not say, I have a hundred confessions to hear, I but looked upon this one as the first and last. I did not say, I must deny myself everything and always, but only just this once. By this means I was able always to do everything perfectly, quietly and in great peace. Try and live this life of the present moment. Pray as if you had nothing else whatever to do; say your Office slowly as if for the last time;do not look forward and think you must often repeat this act of self-denial. This will make all things much easier.' ”

Fr Willie Doyle

Diary entry: 08/13/1913

Click here: Remembering Fr Willie Doyle SJ

The conversion of Elsie Briggs...

If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. - John 8:31

Mission Church ~ Roxbury, Massachusetts ~ USA

Elsie Briggs submitted this story of her conversion to the Boston Pilot:

“There is nothing brilliant or scholarly that attracted me to the Roman Catholic Church.  What attracted me to Catholicism was love.

It all goes back about ten years when beaten and disillusioned I crept into the rear of the Mission Church in Roxbury to rest.  I didn't go in because I was attracted to the church, or because I sought spiritual refreshment; it was only a place to sit down and get off my feet and find, if possible, a few moments of forgetfulness.

How long I sat there, I don't know, but I suddenly became aware of something living.  There was an actual presence all around that seemed to emanate from the altar.  It was pleasing and restful to feel.  And without half realizing what I was doing I moved up front until I was sitting in the first pew.

The weariness and strain all fell away and a great sense of peace and love came over me, combined with an intense desire to sleep…

And right here and now I want to explain that at that time I knew absolutely nothing about the Catholic teachings.  No one had ever told me of the Host or of the ever-present living God on the altar…

For the first time I learned how wrong the average Protestant is in his supposed knowledge of the Catholic Faith. There certainly is nothing more ignorant than nine Protestants out of ten, when it comes to the teachings of the Church of Rome.

All the old wives’ tales, all the lies I had heard from childhood about Catholics were exposed by the light of truth. What a pity there should be such ignorance of God’s truth and how many Protestants, such as I was then, would gladly and eagerly accept the church and her teachings If they only knew the truth that sets one free…”