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Here are this week’s must-reads:
+ “St. Therese had her own battle to fight against self-reliance. Her one goal was to become a saint, but she quickly found that she was completely incapable of achieving it on her own. There were so many virtues to acquire and sacrifices to be made. She felt she was too weak. However, everything she knew of God was rooted in the truth that He would not inspire a desire that was impossible…
“Therefore sanctity was not about what she could do for God, or about stacking up her own salvation points, but rather boldly believing in His love, trusting He would supply what she lacked. Therese would employ a new tactic against self-reliance. When a moment came when she needed patience, or another virtue, even though she did not feel she had it in her, she would ask it from the Lord, and step into that situation with confidence that He would provide it.
“And He did, as no situation was too big or too small for Him. From a human perspective, this was a very vulnerable way to live, precisely because it does not seek security in oneself.” – Sr. Maria Faustina Pia, S.V. “Jesus, I trust in You”
Here’s what’s featured in my newsletter, The Collection, this week… So many St. Therese pieces for her feast day! Sign up for The Collection here 🙂
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+ “Every Saint I’ve loved has taught me to love Jesus better, inspired me to embrace my cross once again and trust in this love that calls me ever onward. This is why I tell their stories. Because the more we know of them, the more we know of him. The more we see how he loved them in their brokenness, the more we believe in his love for us. The more we witness their faithfulness in suffering, the more we see how God can bring good through the ugliness that threatens to overwhelm us. Praise God for this Church of ours that spans the great divide and calls us on to join them around the throne of the one who loves us every bit as much as he loves them.” — Meg Hunter-Kilmer
+ “My vocation, at last I have found it. My vocation is love.” — St. Therese
+ “The world is thy ship and not thy home.” — St. Therese
+ “If we are, as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin puts it, “spiritual beings having a human experience,” we should see ourselves as noble vessels journeying towards heaven. With this in mind, we ought not forget that a ship’s proper end is not self-preservation, but rather to reach a destination. It is better to arrive in a battered boat than to remain whole but adrift, lost at sea.” — Daniel Gray
+ “As mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary’s maternal intercession.” — St. Thomas Aquinas
+ Please join me in praying for Judith: “Jesus is not afraid of our sorrow. He is not afraid of our grief or our fear. Jesus wants all of us and desires to meet us in our brokenness to bring us light and healing in those places. It is okay to be sad when you get awful news.”
+ “Inhale: O God, you hear….
Exhale: My every worry, my every prayer.” — Kayla Craig
+ “What constitutes a “great work for God”? Where does it begin? Always in humility.” — Elisabeth Elliot
+ “God has the power to turn our brokenness into something beautiful. In the book of Isaiah, chapter 61, verse 3, it is written: “to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.” When we surrender our brokenness to God, He can redeem our pain and use it for His glory. It is through our weaknesses that His strength is made perfect 2 Corinthians 12:9 Trust in God’s plan and His ability to bring beauty out of brokenness.” — Reese
+ “When we begin to see that heaven awaits us in the Mass, we begin already to bring our home to heaven. And we begin already to bring heaven home with us.” — Scott Hahn
Here are the fashion finds
in this week’s Collection:
