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Wed 28 Apr 2010

But in how great an error…


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But in how great an error these persons have entangled themselves, and how far they are distant from that true perfection which we seek, may easily be gathered from their lives and habits. For in every thing, whether It be great or small, they seek their own advantage, and like to be preferred before others; they are self-willed and opinionated, blind to their own faults, sharp-sighted for the faults of others, and severely condemn the sayings and doings of other men.

~Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat

Tags: advantage, Combat, faults, Lorenzo Scupoli, opinion, perfection, spirit, spiritual, true perfection, work

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Sat 24 Apr 2010

We found only their opposites…


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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

~Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz

Tags: basis, Caesar, canticle for leibowitz, law, maximum, minimum security, perversion, security, society, suffering, Walter M. Miller

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Fri 23 Apr 2010

What no-one else asks for…


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Pita: Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can’t have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

~Man on Fire (A 2004 film directed by Tony Scott)

Tags: film, Fire, god, health, man on fire, Pita, Prayer, tony scott, wealth

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Thu 8 Apr 2010

Walking, sitting, eating, or drinking…


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Walking, sitting, eating, or drinking, St. Francis was always intent upon prayer. He would go alone to pray at night in churches abandoned and located in deserted places, where, under the protection of divine grace, he overcame many fears and many disturbances of mind.

~St. Francis of Assisi, Celano, First Life, Chapter XXVII (thanks to Portiuncula: the Little Portion)

Tags: Celano, Church, divine, drinking, francis of assisi, grace, mind, night, Portiuncula, Prayer, protection

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Sat 3 Apr 2010

For conversion is not…


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For conversion is not simply a surrendering of what you can afford to give up. It means giving up things that are so much a part of you that you couldn’t imagine yourself without them.

~Rev. James Martin, S.J., “The Church’s Easter: What Needs to Die in the Catholic Church so That it May Live”

Tags: Catholic, catholic church, Church, Conversion, Easter, Live, Rev. James Martin, surrendering

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Thu 1 Apr 2010

In the shoe department of the East Brunswick Kohl’s


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And then I thought: I’ve been getting this all wrong. Christ is not just in the comfortable, familiar places, like my hometown and among my neighbors. He is here, too, amid the roads clogged with traffic, the miles of strip shopping malls and clearance racks. God knows we have to live in a material world. He knows we need to clothe and care for our children. Christ has found a way to show Himself to me, in this present moment, in the shoe department of the East Brunswick Kohl’s.

~Allison Salerno, “Because Christ is Everywhere—Even in the Shoe Department” (on the blog Why I Am Catholic)

Tags: Allison Salerno, Catholic, Christ, department, East Brunswick, everywhere, familiar places, god, hometown, Kohl, moment, neighbor, shopping malls, traffic, way

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