10 Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (Blessed N.J. Gal Day! – May 8, 2015)

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10 Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today (Blessed N.J. Gal Day! – May 8, 2015) 2015-05-08T09:25:29-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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1. Today we celebrate Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, the gal from Bayonne, N.J., who was the first American to be beatified on U.S. soil this past fall in Newark’s stunning cathedral. I wrote about her here and a little here and here, too. Her book of spiritual conference is tremendous spiritual nourishment.

"In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart I belong to Christ"-Mother Teresa of… https://t.co/QULGln4xJe

— Sr Maria Kim Bui ن (@SrMariaKim) May 8, 2015

Today's sermon: reflecting on the Marian origin and devotion of the Dominican Order https://t.co/LyENCxUhZw

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) May 8, 2015

Today the Order of Preachers celebrates our Lady's continual patronage and protection over our Order. She has… http://t.co/nnBhIzlBAz

— Dominican Nuns (@MonialesOP) May 8, 2015

Today the Dominican Order rejoices in Our Lady's patronage and protection https://t.co/sezzzknPZH

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) May 8, 2015

4. Totally caught my eye:

If I speak in messages of 140 characters to thousands or millions but do not have love, I am nothing.

— Bishop David Ricken (@BpDavidRicken) May 8, 2015

5. Not to sound like a World Youth Day song, but we are one body in Christ. That’s why Christians have a particularly acute responsibility to our brothers and sisters who suffer for and in His name. Today’s second reading in the office of readings of the liturgy of the hours speaks to this; from a sermon by Blessed Isaac of Stella:

Just as the head and body of a man form one single man, so the Son of the Virgin and those he has chosen to be his members form a single man and the one Son of Man. Christ is whole and entire, head and body, say the Scriptures, since all the members form one body, which with its head is one Son of Man, and he with the Son of God is one Son of God, who himself with God is one God. Therefore the whole body with its head is Son of Man, Son of God, and God. This is the explanation of the Lord’s words: Father, I desire that as you and I are one, so they may be one with us.

And so, according to this well-known reading of Scripture, neither the body without the head, nor the head without the body, nor the head and body without God make the whole Christ. When all are united with God they become one God. The Son of God is one with God by nature; the Son of Man is one with him in his person; we, his body, are one with him sacramentally. Consequently those who by faith are spiritual members of Christ can truly say that they are what he is: the Son of God and God himself. But what Christ is by his nature we are as his partners; what he is of himself in all fullness, we are as participants. Finally, what the Son of God is by generation, his members are by adoption, according to the text: As sons you have received the Spirit of adoption, enabling you to cry, Abba, Father.

Through his Spirit, he gave men the power to become sons of God, so that all those he has chosen might be taught by the firstborn among many brothers to say: Our Father, who are in heaven. Again he says elsewhere: I ascend to my Father and to your Father.

By the Spirit, from the womb of the Virgin, was born our head, the Son of Man; and by the same Spirit, in the waters of baptism, we are reborn as his body and as sons of God. And just as he was born without any sin, so we are reborn in the forgiveness of all our sins. As on the cross he bore the sum total of the whole body’s sins in his own physical body, so he gave his members the grace of rebirth in order that no sin might be imputed to his mystical body. It is written: Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no sin. The blessed man of this text is undoubtedly Christ, who forgives sins insofar as God is his head. Insofar as this man is the head of the body, no sin is forgiven him. But insofar as the body that belongs to this head consists of many members, sin is not imputed to it.

Just in himself, it is he who justifies himself. He alone is both Savior and saved. In his own body on the cross he bore what he had washed from his body by the waters of baptism. Bringing salvation through wood and through water, he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world which he took upon himself. Himself a priest, he offers himself as sacrifice to God, and he himself is God. Thus, through his own self, the Son is reconciled to himself as God, as well as to the Father and to the Holy Spirit.

Loving Like the Lord – http://t.co/BfXgIFAez4

— Fr. Roger Landry (@FrRogerLandry) May 8, 2015

Christ's mercy cannot be fully appreciated as merely an idea or emotion, but as a work and as a way of life.

— FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) May 8, 2015

Priests and consecrated men and Women are committed to praying Morning and Evening for the People of God. Thank them. pic.twitter.com/W79mUB0JRk

— Fr. Willy Raymond (@FrWilly) May 8, 2015

The demand of God's mercy cannot be deferred, the hour of mercy is now, not later.

— FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) May 8, 2015

10.

God's grace can be such that it overturns all obstacles and brings the calm after the storm. Bl. Charles de Foucauld

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) May 8, 2015

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