If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is “Thank You,”
it will be enough.
Author: Resa Pearson
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
I.
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
II.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I still don’t see it. I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in the same place.
It isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
III.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there, I still fall in.
It’s habit. It’s my fault. I know where I am.
I get out immediately.
IV.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
V.
I walk down a different street.
–Portia Nelson
Litany of Humility
O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved…
From the desire of being extolled …
From the desire of being honored …
From the desire of being praised …
From the desire of being preferred to others…
From the desire of being consulted …
From the desire of being approved …
From the fear of being humiliated …
From the fear of being despised…
From the fear of suffering rebukes …
From the fear of being calumniated …
From the fear of being forgotten …
From the fear of being ridiculed …
From the fear of being wronged …
From the fear of being suspected …
That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I …
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and I may decrease …
That others may be chosen and I set aside …
That others may be praised and I unnoticed …
That others may be preferred to me in everything…
That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should…
Karl Rahner
Hans urs von Balthasar
Songs
Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
“Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.”
“Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one’s back on many others.”
“Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.”
“We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.”
“The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God’s many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him.”
Friday Videos: January 6th, 2023
Part 1 Bishop Barron on Hans Urs von Balthasar – 12:22
Part 2 Bishop Barron on Hans Urs von Balthasar – 12:36
Meister Eckhart
God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
If you focus too narrowly on a single path to God, all you will ever find is the path.
And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
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