Faith Flaherty

“We can all learn from the great Dominican tradition what it means to surrender ourselves unconditionally to God, and to his truth. And in this way, we can embody the truth in all we do and all we say so that Christ can speak again to the contemporary world through us.”
― David Torkington, Inner Life: Fellow Traveller's Guide to Prayer

“takes the eyes of the heart, however, a long time to adjust to the Light. By having a loving faith, watching at all times and praying, doing good to all, and practicing the Beatitudes, we actually follow the Lord Jesus to new Life. We follow him from this world to the Father’s House in the heavenly places, we follow him in the Church, and we follow him under the influence of the Spirit living and working in our hearts. The Spirit is the one who changes us, carves us into another Christ, every step of the way. The center of our lives on earth is the Eucharist, and our hope is to grow in contemplative prayer—for the eyes of our hearts to be opened to the revelation of the”
― OP James Dominic Brent, The Father’s House: Discovering Our Home in the Trinity

“When we freely choose to surrender ourselves to God it means that we must do what Jesus did, use our minds more, not less, to discover his truth, in the authentic tradition to which we belong, and to distinguish it from the cant and hypocrisy that always tries to distort it for personal gain and pre-ferment. Then, like Jesus, we must freely choose to bear witness to that truth, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, and at whatever cost. To surrender oneself to the truth means to seek out the truth actively through serious study and deep personal contemplation, so that we can distinguish between what is the inspired word of God and what is of man, what is living tradition and what is dead traditionalism, what is infallible and what is fallible. Then we must surrender ourselves to that truth with our whole mind and heart and with our whole being, and pro-claim it from the rooftops at no matter what personal cost, as Christ did before us. This commitment to the truth that the gospel demands of all of us is uniquely embodied in the charism of the Dominican”
― David Torkington, Inner Life: Fellow Traveller's Guide to Prayer

“We who believe in Divine Providence, in life after death, in salvation and resurrection; we, of all people, when faced with catastrophe, must go on with courage, faith, and hope.”
― Benedict J. Groeschel, Tears of God: Persevering in the Face of Great Sorrow or Catastrophe