Quote/s of the Day – 6 August – Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord – Readings: Ps 76:19, Ps 83:2-3, 2 Pet. 1:16-19, Matt 17:1-9
How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts! My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord.
Ps 83:2-3
Your lightning illumined the world; the earth quivered and quaked.
Ps 76:19
But not men only, but women also practise this self-denial, overcoming the weakness of their nature by the abundance of their zeal. Let us be abashed then at their earnestness, we who are men, let us cease to be fastened to the things present, to shadow, to dreams, to smoke. For the more part of our life is passed in insensibility.
St John Chrysostom (Homily 55 on Matthew)
Wherefore, I pray, let us seek the unmovable and eternal goods, and the life that never has old age.
St John Chrysostom (Homily 55 on Matthew)
Think what happiness it will be for thee, when thy body shines like the sun at midday. Everything that lives and moves rejoices in the light and warmth of the sun: it gladdens all the face of nature. In like manner thy body will be a joy and delight to thyself and all around thee in Heaven, because of its beauty and its glory.
Fr Martin von Cochem (The Four Last Things)
We must not, as some do, picture to ourselves heaven as a purely spiritual realm. St Dorothea sent to Theophilus by the hands of an angel a basket of flowers culled in the gardens of the celestial paradise, of such surpassing beauty that the sight of them led him to become a Christian, and lay down his life for the faith of Christ.
Fr Martin von Cochem (The Four Last Things)
We know that when He shall appear we shall be like to Him, because we shall see Him as He is.
St John the Evangelist
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