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Happy Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel!

September 29, 2015 by gonzagagirl, posted in Liturgical Feast Days

St. Michael, pray for us!

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“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” (Philippians 4:8)...

"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

"When I began reading Alice von Hildebrand’s By Love Refined: Letters to a Young Bride a couple years ago, her description of the Tabor vision metaphor and reflections on the threat of irreverence pervasive in society, especially as per irreverence within relationships, stayed with me beyond when I finished the book. When I observed the male and female genitalia Christmas ornaments for purchase on Esty, I realized in that moment how irreverent our society has become. What is sacred is desecrated and what is profane is celebrated. Irreverence is edgy, accepted, and popular. Treating nothing as sacred transforms society into a base, crass, and uncreative culture in which sacred relationships become jokes, natural design and law a farce, people items of use and abuse, and things more sacred than persons but all disposable nonetheless...

Jesus Christ warned in the Gospel of the attitude of the Pharisees, “They tie up heavy burdens [hard to carry] and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them.” (Matthew 23:4) In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus repeats a variation of this warning, “And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.” (Luke 11:46)...

“Some Saints are privileged to extend to us their patronage with particular efficacy in certain needs, but not in others; but our holy patron St. Joseph has the power to assist us in all cases, in every necessity, in every undertaking.”

"One effective way to drag virtuous or unvirtuous person alike down to the breaking point or the implosion point is to burden the already burdened. Similar to St. Faustina’s sisters in Christ within her religious community who added to her already burdened and suffering soul, we too can add heavy burdens to our brother and sisters in Christ (which is everyone) that either doesn’t belong on the recipient’s shoulders to begin with or we place a burden that we have no intention or desire of helping that person carry or remove. The weight of that extra droplet when the cup is teetering about to overflow can feel unbearable. These moments in my life brought such pain and confusion...

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who choose one shall eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 18:21) In the Letter to St. James, “If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, his religion is vain.” (James 1:26)

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