In Conversation with God – Volume 6 Part 2 Quotes

“All the din and clatter of the streets, all the great factories which dominate our landscape are only echoes and shadows if you think of them for a moment in the light of eternity; the reality is in here, is there above the altar, is that part of it which our eyes cannot see and our senses cannot distinguish. The motto on Cardinal Newman’s tomb ought to be the funeral motto of every Catholic: ‘Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem’, it says. Out of the shadows and appearances into the truth. When death brings us into another world the experience will not be that of one who falls asleep and dreams, but that of one who wakes from a dream into the full light of day. Here, we are so surrounded by the things of sense that we take them for the full reality. Only sometimes we have a glimpse which corrects that wrong perspective. And above all when we see the Blessed Sacrament enthroned we should look up towards that white disc which shines in the monstrance as towards a chink through which, just for a moment, the light of the other world shines through.”
― Francisco Fernández-Carvajal, In Conversation with God – Volume 6 Part 2: Special Feasts: April – June

“The vocation of each individual is based, up to a certain point, on his or her own being: it can be said that vocation and person become one and the same thing. This means that in God’s creative initiative there is present a particular act of love directed towards those who are called, not only to salvation, but to the ministry of salvation. And therefore, from eternity, from the time we began to exist in the plans of the Creator and He willed us to come into being, He also willed us to be called, predisposing in us all the gifts and conditions for a personal and conscious response to the call of Christ or the Church. God, who loves us, who is Love, is also the one who calls us (cf Rom 9:11).[92] Saint”
― Francisco Fernández-Carvajal, In Conversation with God – Volume 6 Part 2: Special Feasts: April – June

“Work, all work, bears witness to the dignity of man, to his dominion over creation. It is an opportunity to develop one’s personality. It is a bond of union with others, the way to support one’s family, a means of contributing to the improvement of the society in which we live and to the progress of all humanity.”
― Francisco Fernández-Carvajal, In Conversation with God – Volume 6 Part 2: Special Feasts: April – June