6th November – Blessed Anthony Baldinucci
He carried all he needed in a bag on his back and walked with a pilgrim staff. When asked why he walked barefoot, Anthony replied: “That God may be moved by my sufferings to touch the hearts of my hearers.”
He carried all he needed in a bag on his back and walked with a pilgrim staff. When asked why he walked barefoot, Anthony replied: “That God may be moved by my sufferings to touch the hearts of my hearers.”
Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!
If a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out. Keep the stove tightly shut so that it will not lose its heat and grow cold. In other words, avoid distractions as well as you can.
So my brothers and sisters in Christ, let us love God more dearly and exemplify our love for Him in our love for our neighbor.
The practice of recommending to God the souls in Purgatory, that He may mitigate the great pains which they suffer, and that He may soon bring them to His glory, is most pleasing to the Lord and most profitable to us.
When we commemorate the saints we are inflamed with another yearning: that Christ our life may also appear to us as he appeared to them and that we may one day share in his glory.
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity - St. Therese of Lisieux
You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.
Let us kindle the love of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the hearts of all people.
But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, let us understand and appreciate the importance and power of prayer as taught us in today’s gospel reading by always communicating with God with respect and devotion; with a spirit of perseverance, with humility, and with total resignation to God’s will.
For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow.
Thy threats do not terrify us, for Christ is our life, and death is our gain.
Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness that comes from the good example of a praiseworthy and blameless life.