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THE JOY OF LOVE : Apostolic EXHORTATION AMORIS LAETITIA - ON LOVE IN THE FAMILY: pope francis joy

by Pope Francis

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Feb 11, 2017 11:49AM

“Prayer for a Time of Suffering O Lord Jesus, by your incomparable sadness and by the unparalleled desolation that seized your divine heart on the Mount of Olives and on the Cross, and by the desolation of your dear Mother when she lost you, be our joy, or at least be our strength, now while your Cross and Passion are so closely joined to our hearts.”
― Francis de Sales, Roses Among Thorns: Simple Advice for Renewing Your Spiritual Journey

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“The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one’s neighbor… . [P]eople today are hungry for love, for understanding love which is much greater and which is the only answer to loneliness and great poverty.”82 By accepting her own thirst (with”
― Michael E. Gaitley, 33 Days to Morning Glory: A Do-It-Yourself Retreat In Preparation for Marian Consecration

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“What is now called free thought is valued, not because it is free thought, but because it is freedom from thought; because it is free thoughtlessness.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Catholic Church and Conversion

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“God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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“Good feelings, when they depart, recommend to us the pursuit of virtue in their absence; indeed it is for our growth in virtue that they are given to us. The bad ones suggest that when they depart, virtue does too, and they leave us dispirited. In brief, good feelings do not call for love, but only for us to love the One who sends them, while the bad ones want us to love them above all things. Good feelings impel us to seek virtue; bad ones to seek feelings themselves.”
― Francis de Sales, Roses Among Thorns: Simple Advice for Renewing Your Spiritual Journey

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