Happy Carnaval!



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"I am convinced that when I'm gone, if God finds a person more ignorant and useless than I, He will do greater things through that person because it's His doing." - Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"My strength is made manifest in your weakness, my weakness in your stupidity." - Jesus to me

"Now I understand well that what unites our soul most closely to God is self denial; that is, joining our will to the will of God. This is what makes the soul truly free, contributes to profound recollection of the spirit, and makes all life’s burdens light, and death sweet." - St. Faustina (Diary 462)

“Jesus, I thank You for the little daily crosses, for opposition to my endeavors, for the hardships of 

communal life, for the misinterpretation of my intentions, for humiliations at the hands of others, for the harsh way in which we are treated, for false suspicions, for poor health and loss of strength, for self-denial, for dying to myself, for lack of recognition in everything, for the upsetting of all my plans. Thank You, Jesus, for interior sufferings, for dryness of spirit, for terrors, fears, and incertitude, for the darkness and deep interior night, for temptations and various ordeals, for torments too difficult to describe, especially for those which no one will understand, for the hour of death with its fierce struggle and all its bitterness… I thank You Jesus. You who first drank the cup of bitterness before You gave it to me in a much milder form. I put my lips to this cup of Your holy will. Let all be done according to Your good pleasure…”  - St. Faustina (Diary 343)

"But Moses said to God, 'Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?' God answered, "I will be with you; and this will be your sign that I have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will serve God at this mountain." - Exodus 3:11-12

"Therefore, that I might not become too elated, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, but he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.' I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ, for when I am weak, then I am strong." - 2 Corinthians 12:7b-10

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“No chain is stronger than its weakest link, and the weakest link of the chain of Popes was the first. But that weak link was held in the hands of Christ. That is why the papacy will never fail.”

— Archbishop Fulton J Sheen

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Whenever you feel guilty, even if it is because you have consciously committed a sin, a serious sin, something you have kept doing many, many times, never let the devil deceive you by allowing him to discourage you. Whenever you feel guilty, offer all your guilt to the Immaculate, without analyzing it or examining it, as something that belongs to her…

—St. Maximillian Kolbe

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On Sunday, I went to confession during Adoration, and then like 5 minutes later, I remembered something I probably should have confessed like an entire year ago, but instead of just going straight back to confession and asking Fr. Baker  about it, I just sat there and argued with Jesus and myself about whether I even needed to go back to confession all the way through Adoration and Mass, and then I felt really guilty and tried to pretend everything was okay by reciting Liturgy of the Hours and Hail Mary's all Sunday night and all day yesterday. So in summary, if you ever think you're the stupidest person alive, just remember that I've already claimed that title. I don't know why I just told you all this, except that I feel like I can't just slap a quote by a saint onto your blog tonight (and I should really stop doing that, anyway). Here is a picture of a bunny:



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“In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.”

— G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

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“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Augustine of Hippo

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“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!
You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you.
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things, which you created.
You were with me, but I was not with you.
Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all.
You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness.
You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness.
You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you.
I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more.
You touched me, and I burned for your peace.”

— The Confessions of St. Augustine

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Happy Valentine's Day/Feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius.

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“We are born to love, we live to love, and we die to love still more.”

— St. Joseph Cafasso

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Fun fact: MTV thinks I should date either you, Jeff, or Elise. Bwahaha.

Anyway, quote of the day:

"Each time you receive Jesus in the Eucharist, receive Him as if it were your first, last, and only time."  - Fr. Michael Hurley

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"The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. … To Saint Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved." - G. K. Chesterton

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"Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution you faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and every age) become infidels , heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast of the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they have never tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need." - Bl. John Henry Newman

IT'S SUNDAY OF AWAKENING!!!!!!

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"In that little Host is the solution to all the problems of the world." - Blessed Pope John Paul II

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"WHAT IS A SACRIFICE WITHOUT LOVE? IT IS VIOLENCE, IT IS TYRANNY, IT IS HATE."

 - Fulton Sheen

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"When people ask me about intercession of the saints, I like saying this: In prayer, we always go to Jesus. Sometimes we bring friends with us." - Cardinal Timothy Dolan

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“Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation…we will never view the world the same way again.”

— Christopher West, Theology of the Body

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“When you invoke St. Joseph, you don’t have to say much. Say, ‘if you were in my place St. Joseph, what would you do? Well, pray for this on my behalf.’”

— St. Andre Bessette

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“Being good does not consist in not committing any fault; rather in knowing to amend one’s life.”

— St. John Bosco

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“Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice out there calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice in here calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.”

— Thomas Merton

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