Today's quote from St. Ambrose of Milan

"When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking of Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking of Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking of Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking of Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking of Christ."

Feast of St. Matthias

[from Universalis.com]

"St. Matthias was not of the twelve; but after the treachery and death of Judas Iscariot, someone was need to take his place. Two candidates were selected, and lots were drawn to see which of them should be made one of the Twelve; the choice fell on Matthias. Nothing is known for certain about his subsequent history.

"Drawing lots to select a candidate for an office sounds strange to us, but it was a recognised Jewish custom: for example, the priest who was to enter the Temple sanctuary and burn incense there was not chosen by some rota but by lot. Random events, independent of any obvious natural or human cause, were seen as a direct expression of God’s will. Drawing lots was not a substitute for human decision – human beings had chosen Matthias as a candidate, human beings decided which priests were eligible on which days – but a way of putting the final choice into the hands of God.

"When we attain some high or responsible position, we may be tempted to congratulate ourselves on being the best candidate for the job. We would do well to remember that we have got there because of the people we have met and the things we have found ourselves doing, and, more fundamentally, because of the gifts and talents that God has given us. These things are essentially random: like Matthias, we have been chosen by lot."

Quote of the Day

"Without the Way there is no going; without the Truth there is no knowing; without the Life there is no living." -Thomas A Kempis

From Blessed John Paul II ...

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

"It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, makng the world more human and more fraternal.”  

Quote of the Day

"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires." Pope Benedict XVI

Sunday, May 6

"Remember this.  When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold.  When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness.  This is also the case when people withdraw from God."  St. Augustine

First Friday - Adoration

“When God gets through to you
In the sacrament of bread and wine
In some cool, uncanny way,
Then they should be a sign
As sharp as any Jeremiah saw
That God is still at work today
And that I will come again
To dine with you
And offer you
A vision of tomorrow.”

 ― Norman C. Habel