On 8 December 2020, @Pontifex announced the “Year of Saint Joseph."
— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) March 15, 2021
To celebrate this great year and feast day, join IHE Fellow Michael Pakaluk (@CatholicUniv, @TheBuschSchool) and Fr. @dlongenecker1 to discuss Saint Joseph and ordinary holiness: https://t.co/2bsJjEtibz pic.twitter.com/Xytbr16yP6
"Through Him, the Holy Spirit, our hearts are transformed. Through Him, we are purified. Through Him, we are taught to pray."https://t.co/9Sb127CBP6
— Akenside Institute for English Spirituality (@EngSpirituality) January 17, 2021
Lord, thank You for Your many blessings in my life. Fill my heart with gratitude. Lead my heart to thanksgiving. Inspire my thanksgiving to offer acts of service to others this day. Amen.
— OCN (@MyOCN) November 10, 2020
Show your gratitude towards God by doing something self-less today. https://t.co/WyVYyzIeBp
Blessed Sunday☦️
— Ortho.Bro ☦️ (@bro_ortho) November 8, 2020
"Think nothing and do nothing without a purpose directed to God. For to journey without direction is wasted effort."
-St. Mark the Ascetic pic.twitter.com/CacZ6K7ahX
“Perhaps someone will say [of Mary]: “Had she not known before that he would not die?” Undoubtedly. “Did she not expect him to rise again at once?” Surely. “And still she grieved over her crucified Son?” Intensely.” —St. Bernard pic.twitter.com/Ax2JsMLo39
— Fr. David Paternostro, SJ (@DavidPaternostr) September 15, 2020
Holiness consists in being childlike
Our Lord Himself asserted – unequivocally – “unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven” [Mt 18:3]. But, as you have undoubtedly heard many times, being childlike is quite different from being childish. Saint Thérèse, for example, was devoted to the Holy Child Jesus because she found in Him all the qualities to become a saint herself. What is spiritual childhood, you ask? Her “last words” tell us:
It is to recognize one’s own nothingness, to expect everything from the good God as a child expects everything from its father. It is to be concerned about nothing, not even about making one’s living. . . . I remain a child with no other occupation than gathering flowers, the flowers of love and sacrifice, and offering them to the good God for His pleasure. Being a child means not attributing to yourself the virtues you practice or believing yourself capable of anything at all. It means recognizing that the good God places the treasure of virtue in the hands of His children to be used when there is need of it. . . . but it is still God’s treasure. Finally, it means never being discouraged by your faults, because children fall frequently, but are too small to hurt themselves much.
The pseudo-sophisticates of the two last centuries of blood and violence need to acknowledge that their programs have failed abysmally and that the human capacity for God can only be satisfied when one approaches that God as a child accepts the overtures of a loving father.
