Housing our Lord...

 You also, like living stones, are being built 

into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, 

offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable 

to God through Jesus Christ. - I Peter 2:5  

"By our little acts of charity 

practiced in the shade

we convert souls far away, 
we help missionaries,

we win for them abundant alms;

and by that means
build actual dwellings 
spiritual and material 
for our Eucharistic Lord."

St Therese of Lisieux

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His love has no sunset...

 "Love is never finished." Pope Benedict XVI

"The presence of Jesus in the Eucharist is proof that 

His love for us has no sunset. He is the Desired of the 

everlasting hills, and he puts into our hearts 

the desire to live close to him.

The stresses and hurts and partings of life often bear down on us, 

and we may tend to feel alone as when the sun has gone down. 

The words of St. Augustine can lift us 

"He neither rises nor sets because he abides always." 

So our lives do not have to go down into the shadows.

It was at evening time that the risen Lord restored the 

desolate spirits of two disciples by revealing his presence 

to them "in the breaking of the bread." They pleaded with 

him "Stay with us, for it is towards evening." (Lk 24,29). 

We too can plead with him, "Lord, be with us, 

both at sunrise and at sunset..."

In the Holy Eucharist the only Son of God, Jesus Christ,

 fulfills his promise to be with us always. 

What consolation, how could we be lonely?  

From all the sunsets to all the sunrises 

"He neither rises nor sets 

because he abides always." (St. Augustine)."

- from the writings of Msgr. John Moloney, P.P. 

Dublin, Ireland (+2014)

“Every day has been a great day as a priest."

As quoted on the celebration of his

70th Anniversary of priesthood Ordination

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Lights, please!...

 "God has placed us all in a dark room, 

hoping that we will have sense enough 

to turn the light on... " - Mother Angelica

"There are two things I want you to do -
keep close to Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist... 

(and) stay close to His Mother.

With those two loves, you will always have 
the light to see what is right and what is wrong."

Mother Angelica

Poor Clare Nun

Founder of EWTN

(Eternal Word Television Network)

Anniversary of Death - 03/27/16

Requiescat in pace

"We are called to be great saints,

don't miss the opportunity." 

 Mother Angelica

"A soul that trusts God is invincible." 

 Mother Angelica

"God wants you to be in the world, 

but so different from the world that 

you will change it.  Get cracking."

Mother Angelica

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Related: 
Let go of 'false lights' that lead down the wrong path, Pope says :: Catholic News  Agency (CNA)
18 Mother Angelica Quotes that Hit It Right on the Nose | ChurchPOP

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Central point of our life: Fifth Sunday of Lent...

Fifth Sunday of Lent*

*Final Lenten Sunday before Palm Sunday

Give me justice, O God, and plead my cause 

against a nation that is faithless.  From the deceitful 

and cunning rescue me, for you, O God, are 

my strength. - Entrance Antiphon (Today's Liturgy)

 "Without the Eucharist, 
the Church would not exist.

The holy Eucharist 

is the central point of our life. 

I remember once a priest I met. He never talked at great length 
about the sufferings, persecutions and tortures, but he mentioned 
that even in prison, all the priests would celebrate the liturgy.

We were amazed; how could this be possible? 
Where did you get a Chalice and a Paten? 

He took off his glasses and said: 
'This is what we used; one lens served as the chalice 
with a drop of wine and on the other a piece of bread 
was placed, which served as the paten.' 

This is how they celebrated the liturgy in the prison 
or around the premises of the concentration camps.”

Major-Archbishop Swiatoslav Schevchuk

Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

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We pray, almighty God,

that we may always be counted

among the members of Christ,

in whose Body and Blood we have communion,

Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

- Prayer After Communion (Today's Liturgy)

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That generous word, "Be it done"...

 The ANNUNCIATION of the LORD

March 25

Solemnity

 "The Virgin Mary uttered that generous word, "Be it done" 

... Immediately the Heart of Jesus, ever to be adored, 

has begun to pulsate with love, divine and human."

Pius XII, On Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 63

"The Wisdom of God creates poets. How evidently this is so can be seen by considering Mary of Nazareth. When she had given to the Lord of Hosts the Flesh that would become our Bread, Wisdom caused her to break into a poem of praise, a song repeated by more people than probably any other ever composed. 

The Presence within stirred her to exult and proclaim the One 'who has filled the hungry with good things'. And the praise owed to the Presence of embodied Wisdom among us has never ceased in the Church from that day until this."

James T. O'Connor

The Hidden Manna

“When the Divine Child was conceived, Mary’s humanity gave Him hands and feet, eyes and ears, and a body with which to suffer. Just as the petals of a rose after a dew close on the dew as if to absorb its energies, so too Mary as the Mystical Rose closed upon Him Whom the Old Testament had described as a dew descending upon the earth. When finally she did give Him birth, it was as if a great ciborium had opened, and she was holding in her fingers the Guest Who was also the Host of the world, as if to say, ‘Look, this is the Lamb of God; look, this is He Who takes away the sins of the world.’”

Ven Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Life of Christ

Top Image: The Annunciation,  Adolphe-William Bouguereau (1888)
Bottom Image: Mystical Rose - Sr Marie Pierre Semlar, M.M.

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, 

that we may be made worthy of the promises of  Christ!