The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus,but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying,“This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So Jesus addressed this parable to them.“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of themwould not leave the ninety-nine in the desertand go after …
“Let us consider it well, just as every day hundreds of people are brought to the Church by the heroic life of some of us, so hundreds every day are repelled from the Church by the non-Christian life of many who call themselves Christians, even Catholics. If we consider the intercession of a saint or …
Great crowds were traveling with Jesus,and he turned and addressed them,“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,wife and children, brothers and sisters,and even his own life,he cannot be my disciple.Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after mecannot be my disciple.Which of you wishing to construct a towerdoes not …
“But the principal point to remember is that the school of Carmel, while rating at its highest the cure of souls in the world, cannot forget that it is called to a higher vocation. Elias was called to a life of prayer in the midst of a life of intense activity, yet he is one …
One of those at table with Jesus said to him,“Blessed is the one who will dine in the Kingdom of God.”He replied to him,“A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many.When the time for the dinner came,he dispatched his servant to say to those invited,‘Come, everything is now ready.’But one by one, …
“God’s Son assumed our human nature that we could again have a share of the divine nature. We must, on our part, unite ourselves with Christ, and in and through him with the whole Trinity. And no creature participated more fully in this grace than Mary. She, the Mother of all men, is the example …
Jesus said to the crowds:“Everything that the Father gives me will come to me,and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,because I came down from heaven not to do my own willbut the will of the one who sent me.And this is the will of the one who sent me,that I should not …
“In this divine activity within us we have to see the continuation of creation, the continuation and the further revelation of the eternal birth of the Son from the Father. The consciousness of this life of God in us, of the indwelling of the Blessed Trinity, must be revived. God has to live again in …
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain,and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.He began to teach them, saying:“Blessed are the poor in spirit,for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.Blessed are they who mourn,for they will be comforted.Blessed are the meek,for they will inherit the land.Blessed are they who …
“Not only the ways of purgation and of illumination, but the ways of union and infused contemplation also are clearly proposed to Carmelites as the goal to be pursued, the ideal to be reached, even though such union and such participation in the celestial life is called a pure gift of God. As far as …