Carina Bonella Gawel
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Carina Bonella Gawel
“But why would God work the way he does? Well, it is a commonplace of the Bible that God rejoices in our cooperation. He wants us to participate, through freedom, intelligence, and creativity, in what he is doing. And so he plants seeds, and he wants us to cultivate them.” Why God Starts Small, Bishop Barron
Loving Mary is all about loving Jesus. Nobody ever loved Jesus more than his Blessed Mother, and Catholics honor her as the greatest saint of all.
Our devotion to Mary is an expression of worship owed only to her son, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church gives us an important starting point for thinking about our relationship with her:
Our devotion to Mary is an expression of worship owed only to her son, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church gives us an important starting point for thinking about our relationship with her:
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For Augustine, we are made for joy. Joy is another name for the rest we find when we give ourselves over to the One who, for the joy that was set before him, gave himself for us. We find joy when we look for the satisfaction of our hungers in the Triune God who will never leave us or forsake us, when we find our enjoyment in an immortal God whose
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
C. S. Lewis says at the end of his great chapter on hope, reorient the entire focus of your life toward God. He concludes, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world [something supernatural and eternal].”35
Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
We are treating as ultimate what is only penultimate; we are heaping infinite, immortal expectations on created things that will pass away; we are settling on some aspect of the creation rather than being referred through it to its Creator.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; 1718 and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for:
John Paul II, The Catholic Church • Catechism of the Catholic Church
“You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”3 Packed into this one line is wisdom that should radically change how we approach worship, discipleship, and Christian formation.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You and I are made by God and for God. Our home is in God. We are beloved. We are dependent. We need God, every second of every day, if we are going to be happy or good, much less both. Very little is worth knowing more than this.
Brad East • Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry
“To believe in Christ for salvation,” he says, “means to have confidence that He can remove the guilt of sin and give eternal life [read heaven]. It means to believe that He can solve the problem of sin [read guilt] which is what keeps a person out of heaven.”13