Ten Catholic Things that Caught My Eye on Valentine’s Day 2015

Last updated on: February 14, 2015 at 5:03 pm by Kathryn Jean Lopez

Ten Catholic Things that Caught My Eye on Valentine’s Day 2015 2015-02-14T17:03:19-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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1. True love hurts.

"What is missing in the people who think the Rosary is monotonous is love." | Sr. Lucia of Fatima | #dailyeSpiration pic.twitter.com/IK4gewkEs3

— Steubenville (@go2steubenville) February 14, 2015

3. From Magnificat’s meditation today:

As long as a soul that is determined to follow Jesus Christ in all things is at peace in her inmost depths, she may be quite certain that Jesus Christ is guiding and directing her. –
Father Jean-Nicolas Grou, S.J.

4. One of the most beautiful books published in the last year is Fr. Peter John Cameron’s Made for Love, Loved by God. Someday I’m going to write a longer piece about it. For now, there’s this and this. Read it this Lent. It’s beautiful.

5. On Saint Valentine:

Saint Valentine, as a martyr, represents a different kind of love than that of the popular culture’s vision of romantic affection. His love is the love of God in Christ, not mere affection, but a willingness to given one’s whole life as a sacrifice for one’s beloved. Christ’s love is precisely this kind of love. Saint Valentine accepted this love, and in his willingness to die rather than deny Christ, he demonstrated such love himself.

Brand-new cardinals at the Vatican speak about unity, diversity, tradition, change http://t.co/NtjUv9wGCL

— Francis X. Rocca (@FrancisXRocca) February 14, 2015

7. When I asked Dawn Eden who the saint of today is, she said all of them because they knew how to love. My new interview with her is hereon National Review Online.

8. In honor of the feast day of Saints Cyril and Methodius today: “You think I cried when I was beheaded?”

And check out the new stained glass window of them at Mundelein seminary in Chicago. Those were the saints the window makers — brothers — wanted to see in the new St. John Paul II chapel there.

9. From St. Augustine:

I find security in nothing except in your promise, O my God (In s 70, 8-9).

I live happily in my hope, because you, Lord are true to your promises; yet since I do not yet possess you, I groan under the sting of desire. Make me persevere in this desire until what you have promised comes: then will my lamentation cease and only praise will ring out (In Ps 148:1)

10.

Thank you for watching our ukulele sing along! http://t.co/OBw9lKPblB

— Sister Margaret Mary (@smmsjw) February 14, 2015

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