Category Archives: Spiritual Practices

Spiritual Practices

When you pray Miracles happen

Miracles still do happen

Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.

– Padre Pio

This Beloved of ours is merciful and good. Besides, he so deeply longs for our love that he keeps calling us to come closer … For now, his voice reaches us through words spoken by good people, through listening to spiritual talks, and reading sacred literature. God calls to us in countless little ways all the time. Through illnesses and suffering and through sorrow he calls to us. Through a truth glimpsed fleetingly in a state of prayer he calls to us. No matter how halfhearted such insights may be, God rejoices whenever we learn what he is trying to teach us.

– St Teresa of Avila

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts … I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

– Mother Teresa

our Lady of Mount Carmel

Thy Kingdom Come

Eternal Wisdom ! Between you and your Father this was quite sufficient. This is how you made your request of him in the garden of Gethsemane. You showed him what you wished for and what you feared, but left it all in his hands. But you know us, my Lord, and you know that we have not given ourselves up to the will of your Father as completely as you did.

Now the good Jesus bids us say these words, in which we pray that the Kingdom may come in us: Hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come. See how great our Master’s wisdom is!

Now, then. The greatest joy in the kingdom of heaven (the greatest among many) seems to me to be that we will no longer be tied up with earthly concerns but will have rest and glory within us – rejoicing that gives joy to everyone, peace that lasts for ever – satisfaction in ourselves, a satisfaction that comes from seeing how everyone is praising the Lord and blessing and hallowing his name.

“Truth suffers, but never dies.”

“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love
for they enkindle and melt the soul.”

“Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.”

St Teresa of Avila

Happy Independence Day

the Anniversary Festival

I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade .. Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

John Adams

Everyone has the right to Freedom of opinion and Expression.
This right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information
and ideas through any Media and regardless of frontiers.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again
be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln