“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
“Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!” MenPersonsSaidSoulHelpingUseBodyInspirationFaithOpportunityJesusMysteryAuthorityDoctorsSickCatholicMedicinePatientMissionsFinishedChristian InspirationalHelp MePriestsOur WordsSick Person Author:Gianna Beretta Molla
“I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.” ThinkingBeliefMysteryChildhoodInformationBenefitsCatholicSymbolsVisualsClueMystery Of Life Author:Robert Gober
“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.” MeanDoeInterestInterestingChristianityGreaterMysteryCatholicCeaseCertaintyUncertainty Book:A Hopkins reader: selections Source: A Hopkins reader: selections
“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.” FeltImaginationChurchGrowing UpGrowingMysteryTreeOceanCatholicGreenLandscapeGiantsMy ImaginationCatholic ChurchEmbeddedTropicalSeamless Author:Karen Russell
“Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part of my disposition definitely did lend itself to finding my way to the back door of some artistic pursuit.” WayDoorsMysteryFindingsMirrorsCatholicPursuitSmokeArtisticMy WayLatinDispositionBack Doors Author:Susan Sarandon
“This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.” ThinkingKindPersonsDoeArtSpaceMysteryBiggerCatholicCraveSomething Bigger Than Yourself Author:Susan Sarandon
“[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.” SaidVoiceMysteryCatholicGuiltBuddhistIntrigueCensure Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.” WayIdeasRealityBoysFocusMysteryLateDecidedCatholicUniversityPhysicsContemplatingTeensAnother WayDiscussingPriesthoodSeminaryBelfast Author:Stephen Curry
“It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.” WantBelieveSometimesHelpingBeautifulCoursesAsksJesusWishBornMysteryMissingMassUnderstoodCatholicDon't BelieveHeavyGladBelieve In GodMaryConfessionPenance Author:Betty Smith