“Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which lends value to our actions.”

—	St. Faustina

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“God made the stars so high, so when we stared at them he could whisper to us ‘My love for you is higher.’ He made the ocean so deep, so when we thought about it, he could whisper, ‘My love for you is deeper.’ He made the expanse of the universe so wide, so that when we gazed in amazement at it, he could whisper to us, ‘My love for you is wider!’”

—	Mick Mooney

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"The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you." - St. Pio

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Dear Saint Monica, once the sorrowing mother of a wayward son, be pleased to present our petition to the Lord God of heaven and earth. Be with Josh and all seminarians as they discern the Will of God in their lives. Look down upon our anxieties and needs, and intercede for us, as you did so fervently for Augustine, your firstborn.
We have full confidence, that your prayers will gain favorable hearing in heaven. Mother of a sinner-turned saint; obtain for us patience, perseverance, and total trust in God’s perfect timing. In His appointed hour, in His merciful way, may He respond to your prayer and ours, which we offer through you. Amen.

 Happy feast of St. Monica! 

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O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.” 
-St. Catherine of Siena

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“Would that mortal men might know how wonderful is divine grace, how beautiful, how precious; what riches are hidden therein, what treasures, what joys, what delights. If they but knew, surely they would direct their energy with all care and diligence to procuring sufferings and afflictions for themselves. Instead of good fortune all men everywhere would seek out troubles, illness and suffering that they might obtain the inestimable treasure of grace. This is the final profit to be gained from patient endurance. No one would complain about the cross or about hardships coming seemingly by chance upon him, if he realized in what balance they are weighed before being distributed to men.”

—	St. Rose of Lima

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“Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! … I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.” Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

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“When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.”

—	Crazy Love-Francis Chan

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'When through dryness or distraction of mind, you feel unable to form any good thought at mental prayer, offer to the Eternal Father the prayer the Sacred Heart makes for you in the Blessed Sacrament, thus to supply for your insufficiency.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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I'm apparently very slow or stupid, or both.

You know how often I've said, "I trust God"? A lot. And if anyone ever asks me, I'll give them a long speech about how much I absolutely trust Him with everything.

But the second I have a single actual dilemma, I start panicking.
"I'm not going to be able to pay for this semester."
"If I don't get this credit, I won't graduate."
"I'll never get this job."
"I can't even apply to grad school with my GPA. I'm doomed."
I freak out and think that my entire life is about to spiral out of control, because I can't handle all of the stress on my own. And I conveniently forget entirely that I "trust God in everything."

I spent a lot of time this summer studying for the GRE, although not as much time as I thought I should spend. Right before the test, I started freaking out because I don't have the best academic records for applying to psychology graduate programs, and I was suddenly worried that I would never make it to graduate school. I hadn't done as well as I wanted on GRE practice tests, and I started to think that maybe I shouldn't even try to be a psychologist.

The night before the test, I lie awake talking to God, because I'd realized I wasn't trusting Him. And I said, "Please let me do well if it's your will that I go to grad school." This "prayer" was mostly me not trusting at all. I was thinking, "I'm probably not going to do well, and then I'll just snidely take this as your will for me to give up."

During the test, I barely finished one of the sections. I was counting on my score being mediocre or just barely good enough to apply for grad schools like Vandy. But the results flashed up on the screen, and I got a 161 quantitative and a 167 verbal. I blew the test out of the water.

I'm not trying to brag by telling you that, because I think those scores don't really reflect how well I prepared for the test. They reflect God guiding me throughout the test and helping me to score high.

Because He has great plans for me, and I don't have to have any specific skills to accomplish them.

I can't do anything on my own, and that's the message I got from that test.

I can't do anything by myself, but I can do everything with God.

So I don't have to solve all of my problems and "get myself into grad school."

I have to calm down, do what I can towards resolving each problem that I face one-by-one, and trust, actually trust, that God will take care of the rest. I have to trust that His will for my life is not unattainable or impossible and that if I try to live out my vocation, He will work through me to make sure that I succeed.

I need to remember that more often.

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“I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.”

—	Charles Spurgeon

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“I cling to Jesus with every fiber of my being because He is unfailing, He is absolute, He is steadfast and His grace is deeper and wider than my imagination can even fathom. In Him and Him alone is where I’ve discovered a hope more bright and beautiful than words can possibly describe.”

—	Adam Young

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“Jesus died praying, and in the abyss of death he upheld the First Commandment and held on to the presence of God. Out of such a death springs this sacrament, the Eucharist.”

—	Cardinal Ratzinger, ‘God’s Yes and His Love,” in God Is Near Us: The Eucharist, the Heart of Life (Ignatius 2003)

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“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain”

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Padre Pio

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“Man is faithful when he believes in God and his promises; God is faithful when he grants to man what he has promised.”

—	Saint Augustine

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“Humility is the fountain of all other virtues; don’t limit humility, make of it the principal one of all your actions.”

—	St. Francis de Sales

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And for all the future priests.

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“Let me be possessed by love, going above myself through excess of fervour and ecstasy.”

—	St. Therese

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“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”

—	St. Augustine

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“The Magician is the Man when he seeks to become a God, and, being a usurper, can hardly fail to be a tyrant. Not being the maker, but only the distorter, he twists all things out of their intended shape, and imprisons natural things in unnatural forms. But the Mass is exactly the opposite of a Man seeking to be a God. It is a God seeking to be a Man; it is God giving His creative life to mankind as such, and restoring the original pattern of their manhood; making not gods, nor beats, not angels; but, by the original blast and miracle that makes all things new, turning men into men.”

—	G. K. Chesterton

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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
The Angels take great pleasure in helping us with our enterprises, when they are in accordance with God’s will.
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
~St. John Vianney

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If you need a laugh, Coca-cola made ahh.com and ahhh.com and ahhhh.com, all the way up to 62.

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“I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes that you are incapable of responsibility, that you are incapable of true love. I have confidence in you and I pray for you. Have the courage ‘to swim against the tide.’”

—	Pope Francis

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