Quote/s of the Day – 5 May – Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter, Readings: First: Acts 15: 1-6; Psalm: Psalms 122: 1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5; Gospel: John 15: 1-8 and the Memorial of the Conversdion of St Augustine
“Without Me you can do nothing”
John 15:5
“You do not know
when your last day may come.
You are an ingrate!
Why not use the day, today,
that God has given you
to repent?”
“What do you possess
if you possess not God?”
St Augustine (354-430)
Father & Doctor of Grace
“A saint is not someone, who never sins,
but one who sins less and less frequently
and gets up more and more quickly.”
St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Mellifluous Doctor
“Each day then, we ought to renew our resolutions
and arouse ourselves to fervour,
as though it were the first day
of our turning back to God.
We ought to say: “Help me, O Lord God,
in my good resolution
and in Your holy service.
Grant me now, this very day,
to begin perfectly,
for thus far I have done nothing.”
… Just men depend on the grace of God
rather than on their own wisdom
in keeping their resolutions.
In Him they confide every undertaking …”
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Thomas à Kempis CRSA (1380-1471)
“A soul makes room for God
by wiping away all the smudges and smears of creatures,
by uniting its will perfectly to God’s,
for to love is to labour,
to divest and deprive oneself for God, of all that is not God .
When this is done,
the soul will be illumined by and transformed in God.”
St John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Mystical Doctor of the Church
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