‘Our Lord does not care so much for the importance of our works
as for the love with which they are done’.
St. Teresa of Ávila
‘The one who prays without ceasing unites prayer to works and good works to prayer’.
Origen of Alexandria
‘The Word of God makes a path within us. We hear it with the ears and it passes to the heart. It doesn’t stay in the ears; it must go to the heart, and from the heart it passes to the hands, to good works. This is the course that the Word of God follows: from the ears to the heart to the hands. Let us learn these things’.
Pope Francis
‘The Cross is the word through which God has responded to evil in the world. Sometimes it may seem as though God does not react to evil, as if he is silent. And yet, God has spoken, he has replied, and his answer is the Cross of Christ: a word which is love, mercy, forgiveness. It is also reveals a judgment, namely that God, in judging us, loves us. Let us remember this: God judges us by loving us. If I embrace his love then I am saved, if I refuse it, then I am condemned, not by him, but my own self, because God never condemns, he only loves and saves’.
Pope Francis, 29th March 2013
‘We probably won't ever have to answer the question whether we would die for Christ. But every day we are asked will we live for Christ. I think this is much harder. Living for Christ each day, putting him at the centre, listening to him, allowing him to shape us and living as he asks. This is a much more consuming way of following Christ and very difficult. Taking up our cross whatever it might be, no matter how difficult that cross may be, we will find that with Christ's help we will find the strength to carry it. The challenge for us then is to truly believe that although this cross which might not be of our choosing, this cross has a meaning and a purpose which will be revealed at the end of time’.
Fr John Cummins
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