Quote/s of the Day – 21 January – St Agnes (c 291- c 304) Virgin and Martyr –
“And He said to them:
Why are you troubled and why
do thoughts arise in your hearts?”
Luke 24:38
“Christ is truly the Word,
the Only-begotten Son equal to the Father,
united to a truly human soul
and a real body, clean of all sin.
This is the Body which died,
the Body which rose again,
this Body was fastened to the Cross,
this Body laid in the tomb,
this Body is seated in the Heavens.
Our Lord wished to persuade His disciples
that what they were seeing was truly bone and flesh…
Why did He want to convince me of this truth?
Because He knew, just how much it was to my own good,
to have faith in it and how much
I had to lose, if I did not.
You too, then, have faith – it is He, the Bridegroom!”
St Augustine (354-430)
Father and Doctor of Grace
“Behold, the Bridegroom is coming,
go forth to meet Him!”
Matthew 25:6
“He worked and struggled
as our Champion against our enemies,
broke open the bars of our prison,
won the struggle, vanquished our death
through His Own, redeemed us through His Blood,
freed us through His water in Baptism
and made us rich, through His Sacraments
and His gifts, so that, as He says in the Gospel (Mt 25:6), we might “go out” with all virtues to, “meet Him”
in the palace of His glory and enjoy
Him forever in eternity.”
Bl Jan van Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
(The Spiritual Espousals, Prologue)
“Come, O come, for without Thee,
there will be no happy day,
or hour because Thou art my happiness
and without Thee, my table is empty.
I am wretched, as it were, imprisoned
and weighted down with fetters,
until Thou fills me
with the Light of Thy Presence,
restore me to liberty
and show me a friendly Countenance.”
Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
(Imitation of Christ, Book 3 Ch 21:1,4-6)
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