“By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.” MenMadeChristianMysteryConditionsAll ThingsBlessedSakeAccomplishGods WillGod LoveOrthodoxWord Of GodHis LoveGraciousOrthodox ChristianEmbodimentExchangingCondescensionInversions Author:Maximus the Confessor
“O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces in the Eucharist; to live over again the Gospel story and to read it in the light of the Eucharistic Life of Jesus. Remember, O our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, that thou art the Mother of all adorers of the Holy Eucharist” ArtStoriesLightRememberMotherJesusTeachGraceMysteryHolyBlessedMarySacramentsAdorationEucharistBlessed SacramentEucharisticHoly Eucharist Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine prism through which they can all be studied. The Holy Eucharist is, indeed, 'Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever' (Heb 13:8). In this Sacrament He glorifies all the mysteries of His life and prolongs, as it were, the exercise of all His virtues. The Eucharist is, in a word, the great Mystery of our faith to which all Catholic truths lead” LightTodayJesusWishChristPrayerSecretForeverVirtueMysteryDivineExerciseHolyJesus ChristCatholicBlessedYesterdaySacramentsGlorifyEucharistBlessed SacramentPrismsEucharisticHoly EucharistYesterday And Today Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.” GivingAbleMotherReligiousMysteryDangerBlessedThanksIntimacySufficientTrinityFathomVirgin MaryBlessed MotherExaggerating Author:Josemaria Escriva
“Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.” EndsLyingMysteryGoldBlessedCaliforniaGrainEnd TimesWheat Author:Edward Everett
“How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!” WorldMysteryInfluenceBlessedImpulseExcellentGenerousSentimentsFullnessSequelsCourtship Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders
“Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!” NeedsHomeEarthHeavenBornMysteryEternalSolutionsGloryBlessedFoundationCuresGloriousNativeInheritanceEternal LifeLife HappinessHeirsHope And FaithHomesicknessWorldlinessSolid FoundationInfusion Author:Edward McKendree Bounds
“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!” HumansHeartLongWholeAgeMovingYoungJoyMemoriesGriefSunMysteryBloodMy HeartQuietBlessedForgivingDearSettingOld AgeSettingsHuman LifeRisingEach DayBlessRaysSereneBlessed Life Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky