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“To what end, therefore do you continue walking upon these difficult and took some paths? There is no rest to be found where you seek it. Seek what you seek, but it is not to be found where you look for it. You seek a blessed life in the land of death, and it is not to be found there. For how could a blessed life be found where life itself is not found?“

“The good that you love comes from him, but is is good and pleasant in relation to him, and if not, it will rightly become bitter, for anything that comes from him is loved unjustly if he is fork sake for its sakes. To what end, therefore do you continue walking upping these difficult and took some paths? There is no rest to be found where you seek it.”

“See he is found where truth is loved. He is within the heart itself, though the heart has strayed from him. Enter back into your heart, o sinners, and cling to him who fashioned you. Stand with him and you shall be secure. Rest in him and you shall find rest. Why are you wandering upping rough ways? Where?”

“To be known and still to be loved—is this not the cry of every human heart?”

“The Church is incurably romantic about marriage. Her belief in the essential goodness of the married state and the happiness and fulfillment that are to be found in it has not been shaken by the saddening experience of years or by the confidences she has received from those who have discovered only disillusion and embitterment in the inspected burdens of married life.”🥹

A lot of stuff on Holy Mass. Most went over my head. But basically, make Holy Mass the high point of your week, because it already is. You can acknowledge it or fail to acknowledge it, but it’s more beautiful and better for you if you acknowledge it. If you’re able to go daily, make your Morning Offering in the morning, and complete it by offering your whole life to God through Christ in the Holy Mass.

I have no idea how many hours this guy has sunk into reading the Bible but thank God he has.

“In sum if we think of the Last Supper as only a meal, then Calvary is simply an execution. But if, in fact, Jesus instituted the Eucharist as the sacrificial memorial of the New Covenant, then we can see how the sacrifice that he initiated in the Upper Room was consummated at Calvary.”

Holy, holy, holy takes on new meaning when the Trinity has been revealed. The holiness (“otherness”) of God remains separate, but we are invited into the divine life (therefore the divine love of God). By virtue of our Baptism God claims us as adopted sons, through frequent reception of the Eucharist this intimate is made clear, and the rest of the sacraments accomplish similar tasks. Thanks Scott Hahn

Mrs. Devine just followed me on Instagram. Thought the Goodreads community would appreciate this update. @kieran

*describing the Tabernacle in Exodus*
“He stands in need of nothing. Yet he appears here to be demanding as the most finicky houseguest. But it’s not that he needs the best of everything. It’s that we need to give him the best of everything, and we’re disinclined to do so.”
IM TIRED OF FELT AND UGLY CHURCHES AND BAD LITURGY! GIVE ME INCENSE, CHURCHES THAT ARE MEANT TO LAST A THOUSAND YEARS AND SACRED MUSIC!

He’s on the Eucharist now👀

The Doctor of Grace is not disappointing! He looks back at his sins with the eyes of God. He looks at his wretchedness and doesn’t cave in on himself, but looks to God with thanksgiving for lifting him from the mire of his sin and asks God to show him what he was longing for in the stupidity of his sin. Makes me think about how I should look at myself and the dialogue I should have with the Lord.

“Hear, O God. Alas for man’s sin! This speaks man. And you have mercy on him, for you made him, though you did not make the sin that is in him.”

Super simple but I needed to hear it today

I’m coming to learn that most of the Latin Rite is heavily influenced by Thomism. So this book doesn’t shock you with the conclusions it arrives at. But the subtlety of how it arrives at the conclusions is what’s interesting. So much is going over my head but not nearly as much as if I were reading Love and Responsibility.

I emailed an Eastern Catholic monastery and the mothers there gave me a whole lot of Eastern Catholic books I’m excited 😁

A lot about grace. Moral of the story, grace is a gift and you should accept it because its good for you. But you can say no to it. But don't say no to it! God is giving it to you in so many ways. Even when you don't realize it, grace is working on you, making you more like Christ. Even when you don't feel like it, its working, He is working.

I’ve learned that Christ’s human body is a sacrament (not the sense of the seven sacraments of the Church, but loosely). The invisible Father conveys salvation to His creation through the second Person of the Trinity—Jesus.

If you read the book it’s better and makes more sense.

A lot of this goes way over my head. But Christ is present in His written Word and in His spoken Word through the liturgy of the Church and physically present in the sacraments. It is He who baptizes, confirms, gives Himself in the Eucharist, binds in marriage, anoints in sickness, consecrates priests, and forgives sins. If I don’t understand anything else from this book it would be enough!

Putting this back to want to read until October 2nd. Ascension presents is doing a read through with commentary by Fr. Gregory Pine OP and Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyck. There's a podcast with their commentary starting October 2nd.

Homeboy asking all the right questions I’m waiting for him to give me the answers 😂

I had a thought:

Goodreads makes me feel like my book reviews are important, and they’re really not—I’m not quite sure how I feel about continuing to feed that part of ego.

Anyways, it’s a beautiful day here in Clemson!

Has anyone read Les Mis and if so do you have any recommendations on the translation?

The author uses C.E. instead of A.D.—big red flag. This book is written by Catholics for Catholics, why wouldn’t you use A.D.???? Also I don’t like the way history is portrayed. The author says “There…was no clear theology of the sacraments” WHAT? This is so misleading! He just stated Justin Martyr was a prominent theologian, I wouldn’t call Justin’s dealings with the Eucharist “unclear”!!!!

I’ve read Galatians and then I read the lecture on JUST THE GREETING OF THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK, and St. Thomas wrote 6 pages on it? Insane. This is gonna be a chapter a day book. That’s all I can handle😂

UGGHHHH

The characters are so real. I’ve never related to a book in this manner before. The chapter on Charles and his mother made me cry. Such a beautiful book.

I’m sure this political commentary currently goin on is really profound but I don’t understand any of it

I’m not sure why but this book is really hitting home for me. Strangely, it is a very timely read. Very comforting. Newman isn’t known for being a novelist, and I wouldn’t know a novelist from someone who isn’t hahaha but this novel hits home for me. I would’ve liked to have met him after reading this far. I’d have liked to have been his friend.

This book is really fun hahahah. These characters are all way more intelligent than myself but I feel like I’ve had similar debates/conversations without nearly as much intellectual thrust hhaha