“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” St. ![]() “In my deepest wound I saw your glory and it dazzled me.” St. “Nothing great is ever achieved without enduring much.” St. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the world.” Pope Saint John Paul II You were made for greatness.” Pope Benedict XVI “The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. She knows what sin is, not by the experience of its fall, not by tasting its bitter regrets, but by seeing what it did to her Divine Son.” Venerable Fulton Sheen “Mary, who is the Virgin Most Pure, is also the Refuge of Sinners. Anyone who even begins to grasp what this means also knows what it means to be redeemed.” Pope Benedict XVI God exists: that is the real message of Easter. “Faith in the resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being the cry for unending life which is a part of the person is indeed answered. “Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again: for forgiveness has risen from the grave!” St. Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul I want you to detach yourself, not only from creatures, but also from yourself…The more you will come to love suffering, My daughter, the purer your love for Me will be.'” St. ![]() I want the fragrance of your suffering to be pure and unadulterated. In your physical as well as your mental sufferings, My daughter, do not seek sympathy from creatures. ![]() “And the Lord said to me, ‘My child, you please Me most by suffering. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.” St. “Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul except sin. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you.“The secret of happiness is to live moment by moment and to thank God for all that He, in His goodness, sends to us day after day.” St. It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. She was always a good deal of trouble, and I suspect she will reappear when I least want to see her, skirts too long, shy to the point of aggravation, always the injured party, full of recriminations and little hurts and stories I do not want to hear again, at once saddening me and angering me with her vulnerability and ignorance, an apparition all the more insistent for being so long banished. (You see I still have the scenes, but I no longer perceive myself among those present, no longer could ever improvise the dialogue.) The other one, a twenty-three-year-old, bothers me more. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be one of them, a seventeen-year-old, presents little threat, although it would be of some interest to me to know again what it feels like to sit on a river levee drinking vodka-and-orange-juice and listening to Les Paul and Mary Ford and their echoes sing "How High the Moon" on the car radio. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. ![]() Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
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