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27 Oct

Living the Precepts

I am reading, “By Little and By Little.  The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day”, and just wanted to share a passage about Peter Maurin that brought tears to my eyes:
Peter had been insulted and misunderstood in his life as well as loved.  He had been taken for a plumber and left to sit in the basement [...]

19 May

Who Are You Now

“His mercies are new every morning.”
Martha Williamson: The People We Were

15 Jan

How Blessed Are We

But I say to you: Blessed is he who exposes himself to an existence never brought under mastery, who does not transcend but, rather, abandons himself to my ever-transcending grace. Blessed are not the enlightened whose every question has been answered and who are delighted with their own sublime light, the mature and ripe ones [...]

23 Dec

Child of the Poor

From St. Faustina’s Diary, Divine Mercy in My Soul:
532     After Holy Communion, I saw the Lord Jesus, who said these words to me:  Today, penetrate into the spirit of My poverty and arrange everything in such a way that the most destitute will have no reason to envy you.  I find pleasure, not in large [...]

11 May

Answered

Terry, of Abbey-Roads2, has a post up which answers my recent question regarding the degrees of humility. When we were talking about it in the combox the other day, I didn’t even know what the third degree of humility was, which I jokingly said I was practising. Well, now I know, and I know them all. [...]

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