Divine attraction...

  "Receive Communion often, very often ... there 

you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured.  

Jesus has not put this attraction in 

your heart for nothing... " - St Therese of Lisieux

"My God, Jesus my love,

uncreated goodness,

what would have become of me

 if You had not

drawn me to Yourself? 
St Gertrude

 Painting: The Communion ~ Alphonse Legros (1865)

Transfigured and veiled...

 Feast of the 

Transfiguration of the Lord

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"From the cloud came a voice which said,

'This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him.' " — Mark 9:7 

 Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-9; Luke 9:28-36
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"At His Transfiguration Christ showed His disciples 

the splendor of His beauty, to which He will shape and 

color those who are His: ‘He will reform our lowness 

configured to the body of His glory’” (Phil 3:21).

- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

“As He then lived upon earth,

so now He lives in our midst,

but transfigured and veiled

to the bodily eyes 
[in the Blessed Sacrament].”

Fr. Frederick Wm Faber

"Christian faith's steady gaze upon Jesus
transforms us here and now." 

Fr Hans Urs von Balthasar

"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

All of us, gazing on the Lord's glory 

with unveiled faces, are being transformed 

from glory to glory into His very image 

by the Lord who is the Spirit. - II Cor 3:18

AMEN and AMEN