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Today let us do honor to Christ’s baptism and celebrate this feast in holiness. Be cleansed entirely and continue to be cleansed. Nothing gives such pleasure to God as the conversion and salvation of men, for whom his every word and every revelation exist. He wants you to become a living force for all mankind, lights shining in the world. You are to be radiant lights as you stand beside Christ, the great light, bathed in the glory of him who is the light of heaven. You are to enjoy more and more the pure and dazzling light of the Trinity, as now you have received – though not in its fullness – a ray of its splendor, proceeding from the one God, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.
–Saint Gregory Nazianzen (329-c. 391)
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[Christ] belongs to you, but more than that, he longs to be in you, living and ruling in you, as the head lives and rules the body. He wants his breath to be in your breath, his heart in your heart, and his soul in your soul.
–Saint John Eudes (1601-1680)
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Under the influence of the Gift of Wisdom, what is bitter becomes sweet, and weariness becomes repose.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
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Your God is ever beside you — indeed, He is even within you.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
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Not dawdling
not doubting
intrepid all the way
walk toward clarity
with sharp eye
With sharpened sword
clearcut the path
to the lucent surprise
of enlightenment
At every crossroad
be prepared to bump into wonder
–James Broughton (1913-1999)
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Jesus is the Image of the Father, the center of the universe and of history. Jesus is our salvation, the radiance of the God we cannot see, the unquenchable fire of love, the one for whom the angels sigh, the Holy one of God, the true adorer, the eternal High Priest, the Lord of the Ages, the glory of God. Jesus is also our brother, and as such he takes his place beside us, to teach us the path we must follow to reach the invisible. And to make sure that we understand, he translates into visible terms the invisible things he has seen – as man he acts as God would act; he introduces the ways of the family of God on to the Earth and into the family of man.
–Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)
