Yes, it’s true. I do have the coolest friends ever.
Please pray for Deacon Michael Pierz as he prepares for his ordination in 5 days!
27 Monday May 2013
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Please pray for Deacon Michael Pierz as he prepares for his ordination in 5 days!
25 Saturday May 2013
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On this Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazz:
“The Carmelite mystic, St Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, transported by her love for the divine Bridegroom, called upon the souls of consecrated men and women to love Love, a Love unloved: “O souls, created of love and for love, why do you not love Love?”; and she implored Love: “O Love, who are not loved or known. Love, make all creatures love you, O Love” (PRĀ 2, 188-189).
This love, this burning ardour for Christ and for souls, this unquenchable thirst for divine love and this desire to take it to all men and women must constantly nourish your effort for personal conversion, holiness and evangelization.
5. All of you, consecrated men and women, are called to follow Christ more closely and to have his very sentiments in your hearts (cf. Phil 2: 5), to learn from him, meek and humble of heart (cf. Mt 11: 29), to do the Father’s will with him (cf. Jn 6: 38) and to follow him on the way of the Cross.
For the disciple, this is the only path. There is no other. Every day, with a joyful and grateful spirit, he or she must set out on the narrow road in the Teacher’s footsteps, in order to draw the needed energy from the source from which flows the water of life that never dies.
You must open your hearts to the life-giving breath of the Holy Spirit, to compete with one another in fraternal love and service, to open your doors to the weakest, the loneliest and the rejected. In this dawn of the Third Christian Millennium, the witness of your chaste, poor and obedient life will thus become a transparency of the loving face of Christ.”
JPII
Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, ora pro nobis!