December 25, 2001
Blue Journal
“Never be afraid of God. All He can do is love.” (St. Therese in vision to Marie-Michel Marcel Van)
Category: the blue journal
The least understood
December 11, 2001
Blue Journal
“Jesus chooses for each person the type of suffering which He sees is most suited to sanctify that person, and often the cross which He imposes is the one which, accepting all the others, one would have refused if one had dared. The one He gives is that which one understands the least.” (Charles de Foucauld)
Abundant cause for gratitude
June 6, 2001
Blue Journal
“And if you have nothing more to thank God for than that He bears with you and spares you and waits for you and is so utterly forbearing about all your unruly ways, which never give Him a chance to achieve all His great designs in you, surely in this alone, you have abundant cause for gratitude.” (John Tauler)
Faith
April 25, 2001
Blue Journal
“Faith is the acknowledgement of one’s own helplessness and the awaiting of everything from God.” (Fr. Tadeusz Dajczer)
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)
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)
Witnesses to Hope 