Ten Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (First Monday, March 2015)

Last updated on: March 2, 2015 at 6:26 pm by Kathryn Jean Lopez

Ten Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (First Monday, March 2015) 2015-03-02T18:26:12-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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Our Christian life is a journey of conversion, of transfiguration. In Jesus' Transfiguration, we see our destiny.

— Archbishop Gomez (@ArchbishopGomez) March 2, 2015

2. Judge yourself, says Pope Francis, back at the Vatican after his Lenten retreat:

What is life like for the OP Confessors at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome? http://t.co/tnmPo8HVnG #Confession #Healing #OPLife

— Christopher Johnson (@Johnschris86) March 2, 2015

God in Christ effects through his cross a great miracle- the transformation of suffering and death into new life through his love.

— FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) March 2, 2015

5. Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.:

as Pope Benedict XVI said: “Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return”. This faith in Jesus Christ and God’s stupendous gift of Christ to us also underpins St Paul’s words to the Romans: “Will he not also give us all things with him?”
Yes, all things that we human beings deeply desire and need for our true happiness and flourishing, God gives us. Indeed, he even gives us his Son, his Body and Blood, God’s own self. In the act of infinite love that is Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, God gives us all that he has – more than we humans could ever imagine and more than our finitude can contain; he gives us joy and satisfaction beyond compare because by the Cross we have been freed from the limits imposed by sin and have access to the infinity of heaven.
And often, we dare not even imagine what this could mean. The apostles, glimpsing what God planned to give humanity in Christ, namely eternal life and friendship with God, couldn’t quite grasp this and are afraid. Thus the evangelist Mark tells us that they were left “questioning what the rising from the dead meant” (Mk 9:10). But we? Are we still left questioning – doubting, even – the generosity of God?

6. Worked on me:

If you are reading this post please stop and offer 1 Hail Mary for Vocations. Prayer is the single most important thing we can all do.

— NCDVD (@ncdvd) March 2, 2015

7. Pope Francis is urging prayers for medical researchers.

8. on the Humility of Tradition

9. In Magnificat today, from Pseudo-Macarius, Egyptian monk and hermit (c. 390):

Christians … Should strive in all things and ought not to pass judgment on any kind on anyone, neither on the prostitute nor on sinners nor on disorderly persons. But they should look upon all persons with a single mind and a pure eye, so that it may be for such a person almost a natural and fixed attitude never to despise or judge or abhor anyone or to divide people according to categories. If you see a man with one eye, do not make any judgment in your heart, but regard him as though he were whole. If someone has a maimed hand, see him not as maimed. See the crippled as straight, the paralytic as healthy. For this is the purity of heart, that, when you see the sinners and the weak, you have compassion and show mercy toward them. For it can happen that the holy ones of the Lord sit as though they were in the theater, watching the follies of the world, but in their exterior they seem to be looking with their eyes at the things of the world.
Worldly-minded persons move by another power, one of error, as they eagerly thirst for the things of the earth. But Christians are motivated by another attitude, another mind. They are of another world, another city. For the Spirit of God has fellowship with them and they crush the head of the adversary. It is written: The last enemy to be destroyed is death (1 Cor 15:26). For those who venerate God are masters of all things.

10.

Almighty Father, grant us a spirit of prayer and penance; grant that we may love you and one another. – Lord, transform our lives #lauds

— Fr Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) March 2, 2015

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