Ten Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (Tax Day Eve, 2015)

Last updated on: April 14, 2015 at 10:18 am by Kathryn Jean Lopez

Ten Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (Tax Day Eve, 2015) 2015-04-14T10:18:37-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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1. “Once the Holy Spirit leads us to birth and life from above, once he helps us to learn how to love like Christ, everything changes.”

2. On accepting God’s will.

3. From Dominicana today:

Sheen writes in his autobiography, “[T]here is a close relationship between faith and humor. We say of those who lack a sense of humor that they are ‘too thick’; that means they are opaque like a brick wall. Humor, on the contrary, is ‘seeing through’ things like a windowpane. Materialists, humanists, and atheists all take this world very seriously because it is the only world they are ever going to have. He who possesses faith knows that this world is not the only one, and therefore can be regarded rather lightly.”
We are but pilgrims in this present world, journeying to our heavenly homeland. But we have a choice: we can be like whining children, grating the ears of their parents in the front seats with cries of “are we there yet?”—or we can entertain our fellow pilgrims with humor and good cheer.

Our resurrection has already begun in Christ and he longs to lead us into the fullness of life and healing. St. Leo the Great

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) April 14, 2015

5. From the Liturgy of the Hours today:

From a book addressed to Monimus by Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe, bishop
(Lib. 2, 11-12: CCL 91, 46-48)

The spiritual building up of the body of Christ is achieved through love. As Saint Peter says: Like living stones you are built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. And there can be no more effective way to pray for this spiritual growth than for the Church, itself Christ’s body, to make the offering of his body and blood in the sacramental form of bread and wine. For the cup we drink is a participation in the blood of Christ, and the bread we break is a participation in the body of Christ. Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, since we all share the same bread. And so we pray that, by the same grace which made the Church Christ’s body, all its members may remain firm in the unity of that body through the enduring bond of love.

We are right to pray that this may be brought about in us through the gift of the one Spirit of the Father and the Son. The holy Trinity, the one true God, is of its nature unity, equality and love, and by one divine activity sanctifies its adopted sons. That is why Scripture says that God’s love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit he has given us. The Holy Spirit, who is the one Spirit of the Father and the Son, produces in those to whom he gives the grace of divine adoption the same effect as he produced among those whom the Acts of the Apostles describes as having received the Holy Spirit. We are told that the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, because the one Spirit of the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is one God, had created a single heart and soul in all those who believed.

This is why Saint Paul in his exhortation to the Ephesians says that this spiritual unity in the bond of peace must be carefully preserved. I, therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, he writes, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, with all humility and meekness and with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit.

God makes the Church itself a sacrifice pleasing in his sight by preserving within it the love which his Holy Spirit has poured out. Thus the grace of that spiritual love is always available to us, enabling us continually to offer ourselves to God as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to him for ever.

Thought for the Day. After Mass this morning at the Monastery of the Visitation, I came across a great quote from… http://t.co/BfhNFCCaSi

— Vinny Flynn (@MercySongTweet) April 14, 2015

Without the cross we can find no road to climb to heaven. St. Rose of Lima

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) April 13, 2015

8. A Fulton Sheen guide to social media.

9. I geeked out on a saint you want to know over the weekend: Gemma Galgani.

10. I like this a lot, gotta try it: In a bad mood? Annoyed? Disappointed? Ask yourself: “How would I respond to if today were the day Jesus rose from the dead?”

And: “pondering Mary’s joy, and asking for the grace to seize that joy … alters the way we approach life.” The afore-linked-to is a quick guide to the Regina Caeli; do yourself a favor and click here.

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