Quote/s of the Day – 25 June – “The Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus” – St William (1085-1142) Abbot – Ecclesiasticus 45:1-6; Matthew 19:27-29 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/
“And everyone who has left house,
or brethren, or sisters, or father,
or mother, or wife, or children, or lands
for My Name’s sake,
shall receive a hundredfold
and shall possess life everlasting.”
Matthew 19:29
“The one who walks in the love of God
seeks neither gain nor reward
but seeks only, with the will,
to lose self and all things, for God
and this loss, the lover judges to be a gain! ”
“Seek for nothing, desiring to enter for love of Jesus,
with detachment, emptiness
and poverty in everything in this world.
You will never have to do with necessities
greater than those to which you made
your heart yield itself – for the poor in spirit
are most happy and joyful in a state of privation
and he, who has set his heart on nothing,
finds satisfaction everywhere.
The poor in spirit (Mt 5:3) give generously
all they have and their pleasure consists
in being thus deprived of everything
for God’s sake and out of love for their neighbour …”
By St John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Doctor of the Church
“It is true that we require great confidence
to abandon ourselves, without any reserve,
to Divine Providence but, when we do abandon all,
Our Lord takes care of all and disposes of all.
But, if we reserve anything which we are
unwilling to confide to Him, He leaves us,
as if He would say:
“You think yourselves sufficiently wise
to manage that affair without Me –
you can do so and see what will come of it!”
St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Doctor Caritatis
AnaStpaul 