“Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need to become true adorers of our Eucharistic God. Grant us, we beg of you, to know Him better, to love Him more, and to center our lives around the Eucharist, that is, to make our whole life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation, and petition to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Amen.” KnowsNeedsWholeAsksPrayerPerfectLordGraceOur LivesLoversBlessedConstantWhole LifeGrantsSacramentsVirginsOur LordAdorationEucharistAmenPetitionsPerfect LoveReparationsBlessed SacramentImmaculateEucharisticPerfect Lover Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.” GivingEnoughWholeDesireGivenUnderstandingMemoriesLibertyLordRichGraceGive MeSurrenderCatholicism Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.” IfsDoeDoneWholeChoicesHalfGraceContributionPeculiarQualificationsOne HalfFree Choice Author:Bernard of Clairvaux
“Where the light is, and each thing clear,Separate from all others, standing in its place,I drink the time and touch whatever's near,And hope for day when the whole world has that face:For what assures her present every year?In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.” WorldYearsMindWholeLightFacesDarkClearGraceDrinkStandingAccidentsWhole WorldSufficient Book:Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge
“Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.” PeopleMadeWholeUseHomeNightCommunityMoralPracticeGraceWorstTablesDinnerOpeningSundayTexasHouseholdAversionSupperDinner TableSunday NightOpening NightMoral Strength Author:Pauline Kael
“O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.” GivingStillsSoulWholeBodyChanceGraceWiseBrokenLovelyGratefulness Author:Sara Teasdale
“Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .” WholeAnimalGraceAchieveSensitiveBloodyIdentification Author:Gregory Bateson