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Quote/s of the Day – 3 March – Humility

Quote/s of the Day – 3 March – Tuesday in the Second Week of Lent – Feruial Day – 3 Kings 17:8-16; Matthew 23:1-12 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Matthew 23:12

The one sole thing, in myself,
in which I glory,
is that I see in myself,
nothing, in which I can glory.

St Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)

Humility is not just about self-mistrust
but about the entrusting of ourselves to God.
Distrusting ourselves and our own strength
produces trust in God
and from that trust,
generosity of soul is born.

St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Doctor of Charity

Keep your heart in peace
and let nothing trouble you,
not even your faults.
You must humble yourself
and amend them peacefully,
without being discouraged or cast down,
for God’s dwelling, is in peace.

St Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
“Visionary and Apostle of the Sacred Heart“

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Quote/s of the Day – 29 March – From NOW on …

Quote/s of the Day – 29 March – Saturday of the 3rd Week in Lent – Ferial Day – Daniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62 – John 8:1-11

Go and from now on,
sin no more

John 8:11

The Lord did condemn, therefore
but He condemned the sin, not the sinner…
Let them be careful, then, those who love
the goodness in the Lord
but who fear His truthfulness …
The Lord is gracious, t
he Lord is slow to anger,
the Lord is merciful BUT the Lord is also JUST
and the Lord is abounding in TRUTH (Ps 85:15).
… This, then, is the meaning of the words
He addresses to this woman,
“Neither do I condemn you but, having been
made secure concerning the past,
be on your guard in the future.
I, for My part, will not condemn you,
I have blotted out what you have done;
keep what I have commanded
that you may gain what I have promised
!”

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 repen
t?”

The sky and the earth and the waters
and the things which are in them, the fishes
and the birds and the trees are not evil.
All these are good;
it is evil men who make this evil world.

St Augustine (354-430)
Father & Doctor of Grace

Our God, … being good and merciful,
wants us to confess [our sins] in this world,
so that we may not be ashamed
because of them in the next.
So if we confess them then,
He, on His part,
shows Himself to be merciful;
if we acknowledge them,
then He forgives
… ”

St Caesarius of Arles (470-543)
Bishop and Monk

Oh, what peril attaches to sin, wilfully committed!
For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance
and without penitence,
guilt remains and will ever remain,
so long as man retains unchanged,
the will to sin,
or is intent upon committing it.

St Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)