Quote of the Day

"If we're serious about our responsibility to the church, we must take a restorative approach to help victims and offenders instead of a revenge approach that most always hurts everyone involved."

- Harmon Wray

Quote of the Day

"We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."

- Viktor E. Frankl

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From Sean Cardinal O'Malley's blog:

“If God were to take away all His blessings, health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence, and leave me but one gift, I would ask for faith – for with faith in Him and His goodness, mercy, love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of my other gifts and still be happy – trustful, leaving all to His inscrutable Providence.”

- Rose Kennedy

Quote of the Day

I am pretty sure you could insert any of a number of Church roles for "bishop" and the quote continues to ring true!

"Believe me, brothers and sisters, if what I am for you frightens me, what I am with you reassures me. For you I am the bishop; with you I am a Christian."

- Saint Augustine

He has such a way with words, don't ya think?

Quote of the Day

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly-and not just in accordance with immediate, partial, often superficial, and even illusory standards and measures of his being-he must with his unrest, uncertainty and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

- John Paul II, Redemptor hominis

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On Evangelization:

These people do not return to us because they have spotted a billboard on the highway or received an invitation in the mail. They come because they love one of us, or some of us, and life's transitions summons them across our threshold

- Fr. James A. Field on "Welcoming the Stranger" in Today's Parish Minister

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From a recent interview with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair:

"Now my father was a militant atheist," he said. "Before we prayed, I thought I should confess this. 'I'm afraid my father doesn't believe in God,' I said. 'That doesn't matter,' my teacher replied. 'God believes in him. He loves him without demanding or needing love in return.'"

"That is what inspires," Blair said, "the unconditional nature of God's love. A promise perpetually kept. A covenant never broken."

Thanks, Deacon Greg for this nugget from a man of faith recently received into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church.