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“About seventy years ago, Pope Pius XI wrote in a papal encyclical, Mystici Corporis, ‘It is a great mystery that the salvation of the many depends on the holiness of the few . . .’”
I have often meditated on this mystery.
“The ordinary purification”
― Introduction to the Devout Life
― Introduction to the Devout Life
“Having faith does not mean you do not need to mourn. Having faith does mean having the courage to allow yourself to mourn!”
― Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
― Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
“Why do we die? We begin to answer the question simply: because we are alive.”
― The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
― The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
“Transpersonal states of consciousness unfold as the depth of integration of the self and the Ground of Being increases. This process is one of transforming our identity from the particular to the universal to the Absolute.”
― The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
― The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
“No, of course I don’t. You two were crazy about each other. She was hearing the voices that killed her when she was a little girl. John Hardin hears those same voices. There’s a kind of songbird too pretty to fly with the crows and the starlings. The other birds attack it in flocks and tear it apart when it starts to sing. Nothing soft endures. Nature loathes meekness and goodness. Shyla got hurt early and deep. You kept her from the bridge as long as you could, son.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
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