Tag: peace
For there were many against me.
Ps 55:18 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, For there were many against me. Have you ever felt like the whole world was against you? Feelings are very deceptive and can cause us a lot of worry, fear and anxiety. Most of the time when we feel… Read More ›
Seek solitude and interior peace
If in the depths of your soul you were to keep a quiet silence, the all-powerful Word would flow from the Father's throne secretly into you. Happy then is the person who has so fled the world's tumult, who has so withdrawn into the solitude and secrecy of interior peace, that he can hear not… Read More ›
God calls human persons to union with Himself
Whatever I may have written, I think it all can be reduced in the end to this one root truth: that God calls human persons to union with Himself and with one another in Christ, in the Church which is His Mystical Body. It is also a witness to the fact that there is and… Read More ›
The School of the Word
Truly a trustworthy word and deserving of every welcome, O Lord, is your almighty Word, which in so deep a silence made its way down from the Father’s royal throne into the mangers of animals and meanwhile speaks to us better by its silence. Let him who has ears to hear, hear what this loving… Read More ›
What Child is This?
As we turn our eyes on Bethlehem and away from the rich and busy world, we recall the following lines: A little Child, A shining star, A stable rude, The door ajar. Yet in that place So crude, forlorn, The hope of all The world was born. If only the people of this world could… Read More ›
In Christmas messages, Holy Land’s Catholic leaders call for peace on earth
Jerusalem, Israel, Dec 22, 2010 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In their annual Christmas messages, two Catholic leaders in the cradle of Christianity urged prayer and action to bring about lasting peace in the troubled region of the Holy Land. Catholic Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem of the Latins and Custodian of the Holy Land… Read More ›
Peace is something you have
Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or ‘fight for.’ It is indeed ‘fighting for peace’ that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but ‘fighting for peace?’ Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace,… Read More ›
Angel of Life
My beauty is my openness, for I am without form, for how can compassion love and empathy be constrained. I am the one who calls you to embrace all that you are, your darkness is your pathway into deeper mystery, your path of light a dark one, placing one foot in front of the other,… Read More ›
Patience and Anger
A certain brother while he was in the community was restless and frequently moved to wrath. And he said within himself, “I shall go and live in some place in solitude: and when I have no one to speak to or to hear, I shall be at peace and this passion of anger will be… Read More ›
All-embracing Love of Mankind
Where there is a deep, simple, all-embracing love of man, of the created world of living and inanimate things, then there will be respect for life, for freedom, for truth, for justice and there will be humble love of God. But where there is no love of man, no love of life, then make all… Read More ›