April 25, 2001
Blue Journal
“Faith is the acknowledgement of one’s own helplessness and the awaiting of everything from God.” (Fr. Tadeusz Dajczer)
Author: Sr. Dorcee, beloved
I am the one whom Jesus loves.
The most common word for worship
April 7, 2001
The Blue Journal
“The most common word for worship in the New Testament comes sixty-six times. It could be translated ‘I come toward to kiss.'” (David Watson)
Nothing that you do
February 8, 2001
The Blue Journal
“Nothing that you do or can do pleases me as much as when you believe that I love you.” (St. Catherine of Siena)
More for the Church
December 22, 2000
Blue Journal
“The soul immolated to God in the nudity of pure faith, of hope and perfect union does more for the Church in an hour than others (more mediocre and less generous) do in their whole life.” (Bl. Columba Marmion)
Be very true with God
December 22, 2000
Blue Journal
“Be very true with God, and as soon as you let yourself be drawn away to any fault or unfaithfulness (which will happen from time to time) look your Heavenly Father in the face, and show Him your soul in the bare truth.” (Bl Columba Marmion)
Close your eyes
December 22, 2000
Blue Journal
“You will seem to yourself at times to have almost lost your faith and yet it remains whole and entire in the fine point of your soul, all gathered up into so sharp and imperceptible a point that it seems no longer to exist. Close your eyes and remain with Jesus, saying a loving Amen to all He is gazing at in His Father.” (Bl. Columba Marmion)
Holy abandonment
December 21, 2000
Blue Journal
“It is above all on days of weariness, sickness, impatience, temptation, spiritual dryness, and trials, during hours of sometimes terrible anguish which press upon a soul, that holy abandonment is most pleasing to God.” (Blessed Columba Marmion)
If you desire
Blue Journal December 17, 2000
“If you desire to know how these things come about, ask grace, not instruction; desire, not understanding; the groaning of prayer, not diligent reading; the Spouse, not the teacher; God, not man; darkness, not clarity, not light, but the fire that totally inflames and carries us into God by ecstatic unctions and burning affections.” (St. Bonaventure)
“Into your hands . . .”
Blue Journal December 14, 2000
“What pure praise of the Father is love; to feel abandoned and yet stay content before him, saying: ‘Father, into your hands . . .'” (Sr. Wendy Beckett)
Lodged in His Heart
I’m getting ready to leave town tomorrow, and I almost forgot to post today! I can’t help re-posting my favorite picture portraying Jesus and His Sacred Heart, done by James Tissot.
We are all in the Heart of Jesus Christ, since He loves us all, for the way of love is for the lover to lodge the beloved in his heart. (Fr. Timothée de Raynier)
Witnesses to Hope 