Ignatius said; “Be more enthusiastic than you are now. Learn to understand the times. Expect him to come who is above time, the timeless one, the invisible one who became visible for our sake, the untouched one, the one beyond suffering which came to suffer for us, who in every way endured for our sake.”
Could this be a prayer or an answered to worship? Could it be an expression of consuming adoration? Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by…
Yes, there is another sort of petition consistently. It could be aching! Whatever you might be doing, if you long for the day of everlasting rest don’t stop praying. If you don’t wish to stop imploring, at that point, don’t quit your aching. Your industrious aching is your diligent voice. In any case, when love develops chilly, the heart becomes quiet. Consuming adoration is the objection of the heart! On the off chance that you are loaded up with yearning…
There is a different kind of prayer without ceasing; it is longing. Whatever you may be doing, if you long for the day of everlasting rest do not cease praying. If you do not wish to cease praying, then do not cease your longing. Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep…
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass (Word of God) the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake, we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.” No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s…
Evelyn Underhill said; “To look at the Crucifix and then to look at our hearts; to test by the cross the quality of our love – if we do that honestly and unflinchingly we don’t need any other self-examination. The lash, the crown of thorns, the mockery, the stripping, the nails – life has equivalents of all these for us, and God asks a love for himself and his children which can accept and survive all that in the particular…
God is never the producer of human suffering, but He doesn’t stop every negative situation. Yes, He uses these adversities to move us closer to Him. In challenging times, the right attitude is, “God, I believe You’re going to bring me out, but in the meantime, I’m asking You to come into this battle in my health, come into this casualty that I’m going through, come into this valley that’s trying to stop me.” That is it!!!
Dorothy Day said; “But it is through such exercise that we grow, and the joy of our calling assures us we are on the right path. Most certainly, it is easier to believe now that the sun warms us, and we know that buds will appear on the sycamore trees in the wasteland across the street, that life will spring out of the dull clods of that littered park. There are wars and rumors of war, poverty and plague, hunger…
Dorothy Day said; “They have taken the Lord out of his tomb and we do not know where they have laid him,” Mary Magdalene said, and we can say this with her in times of doubt and questioning. Then there’s that last glorious chapter of Saint Luke, where Jesus says, “Why are you so perturbed? Why do questions arise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself. Touch me and see.” Yes, sometimes it…