Joy isn’t found in the objects that surround us; it’s found in the innermost recesses of the soul. One can possess it as well in a prison as in a palace.
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Joy isn’t found in the objects that surround us; it’s found in the innermost recesses of the soul. One can possess it as well in a prison as in a palace.
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My brothers and sisters, you must make room for silence in your lives! Make a time every day when you set yourself apart from the restlessness of your activities. Make a place in the silence of your hearts where Jesus can speak to you — and where you can listen and speak back to him. This will help you grow in your friendship with God.
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Archbishop Jose Gomez (via thefullnessofthefaith)

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As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.
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1 Peter 1:15-16 (via fathershane)

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Many of these beginners [in the spiritual life] want God to desire what they want, and they become sad if they have to desire God’s will. They feel an aversion toward adapting their will to God’s. Hence they frequently believe that what is not their will, or brings them no satisfaction, is not God’s will, and, on the other hand, that if they are satisfied, God is too. They measure God by themselves and not themselves by God, which is in opposition to his teaching in the Gospel that those who lose their life for his sake will gain it and those who desire to gain it will lose it (Mt 16:25).
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Saint John of the Cross  (via thefullnessofthefaith)

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Many of these beginners [in the spiritual life] want God to desire what they want, and they become sad if they have to desire God’s will. They feel an aversion toward adapting their will to God’s. Hence they frequently believe that what is not their will, or brings them no satisfaction, is not God’s will, and, on the other hand, that if they are satisfied, God is too. They measure God by themselves and not themselves by God, which is in opposition to his teaching in the Gospel that those who lose their life for his sake will gain it and those who desire to gain it will lose it (Mt 16:25).
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Saint John of the Cross (Dark Night I.7.3)

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English Program: The New Evangelization at 1-2 p.m. ET - Msgr. Robert Nusca - Prayer & the Interior Life

Brought to you by: Dr. Josephine Lombardi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pastoral and Systematic Theology
St. Augustine’s Seminary, Scarborough, Ontario

TODAY, Friday, April 19, 2013 on Radio Teopoli, CIAO AM530 or online at 1PM, tune in for Radio Teopoli, CIAO AM530’s “The New Evangelization” hosted by Dr. Josephine Lombardi, Ph.D. Dr. Lombardi interviews Monsignor Robert Nusca, President-Rector of St. Augustine’s Seminary and they will be reflecting on the topic of prayer and the interior life.