10 Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (Jan 12, 2016)

1. “His mercy led him to teach.”

2. A little from the Liturgy of the Hours today, from the Detailed Rules for Monks by Saint Basil the Great, bishop:

Since we received a command to love God, we possess from the first moment of our existence an innate power and ability to love. The proof of this is not to be sought outside ourselves, but each one can learn this from himself and in himself. It is natural for us to want things that are good and pleasing to the eye, even though at first different things seem beautiful and good to different people. In the same way, we love what is related to us or near to us, though we have not been taught to do so, and we spontaneously feel well disposed to our benefactors.

What, I ask, is more wonderful than the beauty of God? What thought is more pleasing and wonderful than God’s majesty? What desire is as urgent and overpowering as the desire implanted by God in a soul that is completely purified of sin and cries out in its love: I am wounded by love? The radiance of divine beauty is altogether beyond the power of words to describe.

3.

Prayer begs the soul to aspire to the purpose for which we have been created- communion with God.

— FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) January 12, 2016

4.

Pray for those killed or wounded in Turkey, and around the globe, this morning. May Jesus bring peace to all the earth.

— James D Conley (@bishop_conley) January 12, 2016

5.

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference ~St. Maximilian Kolbe

— Sister Andrew Marie (@SrAndrewFSP) January 12, 2016

6.

We need to avoid a common temptation nowadays: to discard whatever proves troublesome. #PopeFrancis

— Bishop Barres (@BishopBarres) January 12, 2016

7. Pope Francis today: “Saints are those who dare to believe that God is the Lord and that He can do everything.”

8.

What might you find praying with Saint Ignatius? What I Found in Some Boxes https://t.co/6j7J2IkU2m

— Mark Mossa, S.J. (@MarkMossaSJ) January 12, 2016

9. Receive the word of God, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God.

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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. Blessed John Henry Newman

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) January 12, 2016