Quote/s of the Day – 26 September – “Month of the Seven Sorrows of Mary” – Readings: Numbers 11: 25-29; Psalm 19: 8, 10- 14; James 5: 1-6; Mark 9: 38-43, 45, 47-48
“Anyone who gives you
a cup of water to drink
because you belong to Christ …
will surely not lose his reward … ”
Mark 9:41
“And whoever gives only
a cup of cold water to
one of these little ones to drink ,
… he shall not lose his reward.”
Matthew 10:42
“ Lift up and stretch out your hands,
not to heaven but to the poor…
if you lift up your hands in prayer
without sharing with the poor,
it is worth nothing.”
St John Chrysostom (347-407)
Father and Doctor of the Church
“The poor stretch out the hand
but God receives what is offered.”
St Peter Chrysologus (c 400-450)
“Golden Words”
Father & Doctor of the Church
“For just as water extinguishes a fire,
just so does charity blot out our sins.”
St John of God (1495-1550)
“The poor and the sick
are the Heart of God.
In serving them,
we serve Jesus Christ.”
St Camillus de Lellis MI (1550-1614)
Passionate Catholic.
Being a Catholic is a way of life - a love affair "Religion must be like the air we breathe..."- St John Bosco
Prayer is what the world needs combined with the example of our lives which testify to the Light of Christ.
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as so many sermons.
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and lead us, to where we had not expected to go.”
Charles Cardinal Journet (1891-1975)
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