January 2012
“Tonight snow-haze, moonlight. The moonlight jellyfish itself
is floating before...”
– Poem of the week: Six Winters by Tomas Tranströmer | Books | guardian.co.uk
“You are all sons of light and sons of the day: we do not belong to the night or...”
“It is here that each of us needs to recognize which companionship allows him to...”
“When I wrote my senior essay on Wilde’s conversion to Catholicism, I...”
– @CatholicKey
“To fear the Lord is the perfection of wisdom;
she intoxicates them with her...”
“Sorrow is not contrary to perfect conformity to the will of God, so I still...”
– “Sorrow is not…
“Man fell, but God descended; man fell miserably, but God descended mercifully;...”
“A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death.”...”
– @millinerd
“We cannot yet contemplate the fact that he was begotten by the Father before the...”
“Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?”
– John, chapter 1
“So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day.”
– John, chapter 1
“If you’re following infinite beauty, you’re content to wait a bit...”
– A Misplaced Hunger | Late Papers
“Be still before the Lord and wait in patience. —Ps 37:7”
“By loving your neighbour, by having care for your neighbour, you are travelling...”
– St. Augustine, Tractate on St. John
“Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you.”
– 1 John, chapter 2
“The appearance of renunciation will be useless-More exalted & more valuable...”
– @innocentsmith
“There is still, in my love,
so much room and so many words for you.
Your...”
– Abraham Heschel (via invicemsunt)
“Pope Benedict XVI said, “Translated into the language of our time, this...”
– TRASCENDENCE/ The invisible secret enclosed in the human heart
“The Psalmist says that people of faith wait for the Lord “more than those who...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, New Year’s Day Message
December 2011
“So, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted in him and built...”
“Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to...”
– Luke, chapter 2
“Where the humanity of God appears, his kindness can no longer be hidden.”
– St. Bernard of Clairvaux
“Never again will weeping and crying be heard among them.”
– @innocentsmith
“The gospel of Christmas too has been deprived of its link to its historical...”
– Lorenzo Albacete, Christmas and Hanukkah: rooted in historical events, not sentimental dreams