Trinitarian life is also our life…. There is one life of the Triune God, a life in which we graciously have been included as partners…a comprehensive plan of God reaching from creation to consummation, in which God and all creatures are destined to exist together in the mystery of love and communion.
CATHERINE MOWRY LACUGNA God for Us
For Christians, the mystery of the death and resurrection of Christ constitutes an extraordinary revelation of divine love in the act of overcoming the human sinfulness that lies at the root of evil in our world. The relevance of this…needs to be further elaborated by drawing out its implications in a number of areas, beginning with the sinfulness of human beings and how that sinfulness distorts fundamentally our understanding of God. In this Christological perspective, conventional human wisdom is subverted and turned entirely on its head by the foolishness of God. Likewise, the conventional perception of risk is shattered, for the death and resurrection of Christ revealed God to be utterly reckless in wagering everything on human freedom, in surrendering the success or failure of the entire project of creation into human hands, and to be utterly vulnerable in having to pay the price of that wager.
JOE EGAN The Godless Delusion
We must remember that the Word, the Son of God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is hidden in essence and presence, in the inmost being of the soul…. Oh thou soul, then, most beautiful of creatures, who so long to know the place where your beloved is, that you may seek and be united to Him, know now that you are yourself that very tabernacle where He dwells, the secret chamber of His retreat where He is hidden.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Spiritual Canticle, st. 1.6-7
Our soul is so preciously loved of Him that is highest, that it passes the knowing of all creatures. That is to say that there is no creature that is made that may fully know how much, how sweetly and how tenderly that our maker loves us.
JULIAN OF NORWICH Revelations of Divine Love
The heart of Jesus will dilate our hearts by teaching us to love above all else the glory of God and the salvation of souls.... We rely far too much on our own strength when our helplessness is obvious, and because we do not depend enough on the heart of Jesus, on his love for us. The heart of Jesus is able and desires to give us the saintly powers we need, confidence and love, which inspire adoration, thanksgiving, and atonement, by placing the glory of God above all else.
FR. REGINALD GARRIGOU-LAGRANGE, O.P.
The world, when it comments upon the shortness of life, does so with a note of sadness, it complains about the brevity of things; man often lives on his memories. And the past, what good does it serve? It can't be changed. He keeps searching in the time remaining to him for what he missed in the past; he comes to his last years, and in these the nostalgia for the past and the sense of the brevity of things is even sharper. How sad the old age of the world!
SAINT RAFAEL ARNÁIZ BARÓN
Is there anything He can refuse us in the future, if already in the present He gives himself to us as our food? The Eucharist is our one happiness on earth.
BLESSED JOSEPH CASSANT, OCSO