September 2011
A world created and willed on the risk of freedom and love can never be reduced...
– Joseph Ratzinger (via invicemsunt)
the Lord has pity on those who fear him; he knows of what we are made —Ps...
The prime original intuition then, is the awe in front of this given and of the...
I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever. —Ps 52
You do not find freedom from your own miseries by censoring them, but by handing...
– Msgr Massimo Camisasca
Be still before the Lord and wait in patience. —Ps 37
Into your hands I commend my spirit.
It is you who will redeem me, Lord. ...
An Other is this truth about myself: this fullness of my being is You, my...
Cardinal Angelo Scola [said] ‘The relation with the other is always both an...
– Mother Cristiana Piccardo, of the women’s Trappist monastery of Vitorchiano (from “Encounter: In Silence for the Church”)
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Then will I go in to the altar of God, the God of my gladness and joy. ...
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
– Faulkner
We live together failing to recognize what unites us. Thus even the smallest...
I am a pilgrim on the earth;
show me your commands. —Ps 119
Reactivity signifies the absence of an all-encompassing, recognized, pursued,...
I desire mercy, not sacrifice. —Mt 9:13
Reading is an art, not because of its activity, but because of its creativity,...
– Elise Matich, Education / The Art of Reading
My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on...
It is a question of choosing between a “liquid” city, the homeland of a culture...
– Benedict XVI (Scola, The good reasons for a broader reason)
I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest. —Ezek 34:15
Gratuitousness is a fundamental dimension of the life of the priest. To educate...
– Don Massimo Camisasca, “Education to gratuitousness” (via invicemsunt)
This life lost, totally mine and totally theirs, I thank God who seems to have...
– Dom Christian, Of Gods and Men (Καθολικός διάκονος: Magnifying Christ in your body)
The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. ...
Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him,...
[M]an is not only image of God on account of his being free and rational, but...
– Angelo Scola, The Nuptial Mystery
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