tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post8434530445683514946..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Gettin' holy ain't for sissiesFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-13211992221379238062010-05-25T19:15:43.362-05:002010-05-25T19:15:43.362-05:00Off topic:
Happy Name Day Father Philip Neri!
St...Off topic:<br /><br />Happy Name Day Father Philip Neri!<br /><br />St Philip Neri and the Priesthood<br />http://www.catholicculture.org:80/culture/library/view.cfm?id=8885Sharonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-24434399420947429482010-05-25T09:38:17.453-05:002010-05-25T09:38:17.453-05:00"Gettin' holy" - slowly - does make ..."Gettin' holy" - slowly - does make aging a bit delightful :) .<br /><br />"we have set our hopes on the fleeting goodness of people, ideas, and institutions who are in themselves incapable of making us Good...." ---------- Ouch. <br /><br />"God is the only source of holiness..." ---------- Then it also follows that we should - and CAN - go to him in our unholiness rather than elsewhere or rather than hide.<br /><br />"Why then do we find being holy so difficult?" ---------- On the other hand, Mother Teresa of Calcutta says of both surrender and holiness that it's not so difficult, here: "It's nothing but that single word, 'Yes, I accept whatever you give, and I give whatever you take.' And this is just a simple way for us to be holy. We must not create difficulties in our own minds. To be holy doesn't mean to do extraordinary things, to understand big things, but it is a simple acceptance."<br /><br />"Without the desire for holiness, we are just animals, creatures eating, breeding, and dying without a purpose larger than our biology..." ---------- We are so far more wonderfully made than that, aren't we?aspiring...https://www.blogger.com/profile/10825316824097996382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-47506964521238671252010-05-25T05:12:13.730-05:002010-05-25T05:12:13.730-05:00Very encouraging and,indeed, energising!
The more ...Very encouraging and,indeed, energising!<br />The more we realise that surrendering to God's will closes that gap between sinner and saint, then the freer we become.a fragrance of Godhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203662122586709308noreply@blogger.com