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A vocation is the call God has for each of us to make something of our lives. God calls each one of us without exception. A pilgrimage is a great time to reflect on what the Lord calls us to. To ask what is pleasing to him. Is it to be a father, a mother, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer? Is it to be a priest or a sister, or a deacon? Most of us want to do what we want to do. But what we should want to do is what God wants us to do.
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Archbishop Charles Chaput (Philadelphia-designate)
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Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are — in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. … You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society — completely forgotten, completely left alone
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Mother Teresa (via thefullnessofthefaith)
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These nuns at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gertrude are making the communion wafers for Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic visit to Germany this month.
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Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
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Mother Teresa (via fathershane)
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For Those Contemplating Religious Life:
“Her sacrifice is perpetual, without mitigation, from the time her religious life begins until she dies as a victim according to the example of Jesus Christ. And she does all this in silence with no one aware of it. Yet how many are there who think of this life as useless. Nevertheless, she (the religious) is like the Lamb of God. She removes sins from the world. She sacrifices herself to bring back to the sheepfold those sheep who have gone astray. But just as Christ did not know the world, neither does she know it. This abnegation enchants me completely. There is no room for self-love. She doesn’t even see the fruit of her prayer. In heaven alone will she know this.”
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Saint Teresa of the Andes, on Religious Life, (age 15), Letters p.121 (via angelofyhvh)
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Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia
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