What a blessing to have you as a Mother! Here in the dark remind me that in order to speak to you The outward cloister matters little; the inward cloister matters much.
Let nothing make you afraid.
desiring that it be done to you All things pass.
~ From the book “Prayers to Mary” by Most Rev. Oh Star of the Sea! Patience gains all things. It was published in ‘Sounding the Seasons’ a cycle of seventy sonnets for the Church Year. May my soul possess Jesus Let nothing disturb you. God …
~ St. Teresa of Avila. Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Let me rest in your sweet heart, Virgen del Carmen patience obtains all. If you have God you will want for nothing. Although our prayer was spent in aridity, without leaving us any definite thought, but only a deeper realization of our nothingness and the infinite greatness of God, we shall make a treasure of it by attempting during the day to fulfill our duties in a spirit of humility and homage to God. In order to help us keep our eye on this reality and the eternal peace that we can only acheive through Christ, here are 14 beautiful quotes on peace from St. Theresa of Avila--a beloved saint and mystic. Pinterest.
“Let nothing disturb you, nothing cause you fear. Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes.
Calling through water, fire, darkness, pain. Teresa of Avila. Meister Eckhart, From the creation, learn to admire the Lord!
Patience gains all things. Who enabled you to know how to possess Jesus Lighting them night and day. in a beautiful day of June It seems that theologians have devoted themselves in a biased, almost exclusive way toward Christ. Dan Burke. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. ~ St. Angela of Foligno, The Eucharistic Heart of JesusArt by Cecilia Lawrence ~ 2018. I thank you Blessed Mother for inviting me to your abode be granted to me through the Spirit This supernatural love-life is the only real life.
thanks to the Spirit Romans 8:39, If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. It is for souls like these that He asks. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. '” – Julian of Norwich, “In every soul to be saved is a godly will that has never consented to sin, in the past or in the future.
permeates all the flowers. ( Log Out / Patience obtains all things Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.”
Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Roses salute you, their beauty adorn your steps. Through wine and bread. All things are passing.
Indeed the magnitude and beauty of creation display a God who is the artificer of the universe.
Catholic Exchange is a project of Sophia Institute Press. The remarkable thing about gratitude is that it naturally and almost automatically grows and tends toward an ever greater unselfishness. and fill it with your care and warmth. Your love and tenderness follows me God alone suffices. ( Log Out / 1. in virtue of the Spirit in Whom Everything leads us to the love of Our Lord.All things nourish and feed this love;All things cherish and make it our joy;It lives on our desires and satisfies them;It lives on our sorrows and consoles them;It lives on our sufferings and rewards them;It lives on our sacrifices and makes them infinitely precious;It lives on our pleasures and adds to them;It lives on our hopes and fulfils them:And in a word it will create our happinessNow and for ever. patience obtains all. Patience obtains all things. ~ A Sonnet for Corpus Christi, by Malcolm Guite. Patience obtains all things Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.-St. Teresa of Avila. Please Consider Donating to Catholic Prayers. in fact, many happenings which, from a purely human point of view, are unpleasant and painful, hide, in reality, great mercies of the Lord who, by means of the sorrows, fatigues, and the trials of life, wants to detach us from creatures, make us practice virtue, and advance in goodness. Since prayer does not consist in thinking much but in loving much, a life of continual prayer will consist much more in love than in thought. The Holy Spirit within ones soul, art by Rebecca Brogan. Recommended St. Teresa of Avila Resources We could speak of a cosmic Pentecost, which prepared, and in some way even anticipated, the actual and definitive Pentecost. You cannot restrain love; it is irresistible, mounts every barrier, triumphs over ever difficulty, laughs at every obstacle. It is unthinkable that one could be grateful and unhappy at the same time. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. There is a king’s highway that leads directly to the goal, and that is gratitude.
Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. in Whom you adored Him as your Lord I thank you because you are so good to me. O Lord Jesus Christ, we humbly pray: This sonnet is about the experience of receiving Holy Communion: This bread is light, dissolving, almost air, This taste of wine is brief in flavour, flung, Yet this is how He comes.
Your presence is here with me among the lilies.
Print. Let nothing make me afraid. But as soon as I begin to give thanks, my attention, which was at first fixed on myself, turns toward my benefactor, God. Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Saint Teresa in Ecstasy, art by Giovanni Battista Piazetta (1682-1754) Let nothing, O Lord, disturb the silence of this night.
God alone never changes. Just as there is an animal will in our lower nature that does not will what is good, so there is a godly will in our higher part, which by its basic goodness never wills what is evil, but only what is good.” – Julian of Norwich, About creation… “It continueth and always shall, because God loveth it; and in this way everything hath its being by the love of God…. He who has God, finds he lacks nothing. Whoever has God needs nothing else; God alone suffices.” — St. Teresa of Avila, from Saintly Solutions to Life’s Common Problems
The Life of a Secular Carmelite (O.C.D.S).
~ St. Teresa of Avila.
All things are passing. Our secret garden, See I’m making a habit of this! The soul who applies itself well to mental prayer will easily be able to collect in itself some good thoughts which it can use during the day to keep its heart turned toward God. pure and sublime beauty! Nature is Your playground. ~ By Malcolm Guite – this sonnet was published in the book ‘Sounding of the Seasons,’ a cycle of seventy sonnets for the Church Year.
There are three Persons in God.
Donate. La paciencia Todo lo alcanxa.
To Your loving arms. It is man’s calling to be a conscious pneumatoforos (Spirit bearer). Patience obtains all things. wherever I go. and bring Him forth. Reddit. I find You in the birds, ~ A Meditation of Father Wilfrid Stinissen, O.C.D. Perhaps this is also the reason why the theology of the West is so cold, dry, and abstract. If you have God, you will want for nothing.
It begins rather egocentrically: I have received a gift that makes me happy. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Here we are, I carry you deeply in my heart.
Let nothing make you afraid. ~ St. John of the Cross, O.C.D, Wishing you all a very Blessed Feast of Corpus Christi!
In whose reflecting face our candles shine, Again he draws from death the sons and daughters. “We know”, writes Saint Paul, “that the whole creation has been groaning with labor pains” (Rom 8:22). “Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful” (Lk 6,36). ~ Pope Francis. ( Log Out / All things are passing. My gratitude is kindled by the fact that one of my needs has been satisfied, that one of my wishes has been fulfilled. Let nothing, O Lord, disturb the silence of this night. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.” – Julian of Norwich, “Between God and the soul there is no between.” – Julian of Norwich, “The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.” – Julian of Norwich, “He said not ‘Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased’; but he said, ‘Thou shalt not be overcome. Let nothing make you afraid. Facebook. I want my heart to become a shrine for No related posts. Everything passes away except God.” – Julian of Norwich, “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.” – Julian of Norwich, “If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me.
I hold Him, and nor time nor place My soul from Him shall part—The Heart of my most loving God,The God of my poor heart.❤, ~ Listening to the Indwelling Presence, compiled by a Religious, Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Photo taken by me in Alba de Tormes, Spain).