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Throughout the academic year the Mission Council will post a weekly quote as a way to promote the Core Value of Faith/Spirituality. This week's quote: Quote of the Week "I thank God for the present." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Quotes "All Christian life is meant to be at the same time profoundly
contemplative and rich in active work." "Watch how you live. Your lives may be the only gospel your sisters
and brothers will ever read." "Each day is a new dawn of that lumen Christi, the light of Christ
which knows no setting." Alleluia We pray to you, Lord: "Love is the guarantee that the life of the Spirit is growing
in us - Love is the sign of the Holy Spirit at work
in the Church and in the world." "God is not threatened by differences. It's we who are." - Richard Rohr The prayer of St. Augustine places us in the right spirit for Lent: O Lord, our Lord, you have created us for yourself "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world
than for bread." "Listening is the fundamental attitude called for in prayer. The
one who truly prays is the one who listens." "What we know about God is important, but what we do with what
we know about God is "But prayer, the silent, loving attentive heart at rest in God,
is a whole way of life. Prayer is living from the heart in response
to the life which pours itself forth: Love." -Michael Downey "My interior life is a walk through darkness with the God within
who leads us beyond and out of ourselves to become a vessel of Divine
Love let loose upon the world." "It is not possible to live and grow in the faith without the
support of a group, of a Christian community. It is here that you will
learn together to build a better world." “The learned will shine like the brilliance of the firmament,
and those who train many in the ways of justice will sparkle like the
stars for all eternity." “We must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity
of cultures and life forms we are one family and one Earth community
with a common destiny.” “Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the
genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin
in the radiant tapestry of being.” "The Christian life is a journey...Therefore do not wait for
great strength before setting out, for immobility will weaken you further.
Do not wait to see very clearly before starting; one has to walk toward
the light". Advent Hints: "Smile and enjoy the attempts to bend your minds and imaginations around images of peace, harmony, relationships, and identity which come to us through the mail, store windows, TV and newspapers. Prepare to experience your being insulted by how easily seduced /they /think we are, and smile at how vulnerable we really are to these allurements." - by Larry Gillick, S.J. "To do justice, to love kindness, to walk humbly with God - these
may embody all that we need to know in order to be faithful and to
be human." "The Lord gives perfect peace to those whose faith is firm. In a spirit of gratitude for the wonders of creation: "Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love." -Adela Rogers St. John "With the eyes of faith, consider the greatness of your mission
and the wonderful amount of good you can accomplish." "My imperfections and my failures are as much a blessing from
God as my "To act justly = to participate in creating a just society "Holiness is not limited to the sanctuary or to moments of private prayer...holiness is achieved in the midst of the world." -The Bishops' pastoral letter on the economy "A humble person can do great things with an uncommon perfection because she is no longer concerned about incidentals, like her own interests and her own reputation, and therefore she no longer needs to waste her efforts in defending them." -From/ Seeds/ by Thomas Merton, selected and edited Robert Inchausti "I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are." -Carl Jung Letters, 1973, 1:377 "Peace comes, if we are looking not to feel peaceful, but to work for justice. Community comes, if what we want is, not to feel togetherness, but to serve." -Iain Matthew, The Impact of God "On our feet we place the shoes of the Gospel of peace. This means that we cannot walk in the worldly ways of violence but rather in the way opened up by the nonviolence of the Paschal Mystery." -Robert Barron The call to welcome the stranger is a moral imperative, not a choice. "Educating is the art of helping young people to completeness." “We promise you discovery, the discovery of yourself, the discovery
of the universe and your place in it. With these unguessed, untried
potencies you begin your lifetime enterprise of exploration into God.
Affairs are now and always for you, soul-sized.”
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