Tolle et lege

Saint Augustine is crying and in complete turmoil. He throws himself on the grounds and begs for God’s assistance. In a state of weeping, bitter contrition Augustine hears a child’s voice from a nearby house say, in a sing-song way, “Take it and Read it” Augustine, taking it as a sign, opens the nearest book, which was Paul’s letter to the Romans and reads. Says Augustine, “it was as though my heart was filled with a light of confidence and all the shadows of my doubt were swept away.”

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Father Ryan Erlenbush, Sermon on St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - The woman who defeated Hitler

Father Ryan Erlenbush, Sermon on St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - The woman who defeated Hitler: "

Edith Stein, a German Jew who became a Carmelite nun and took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was born to eternal life this day in 1942 in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

She had once told her confessor, 'You don't know what it means to me to be a daughter of the chosen people - to belong to Christ, not only spiritually, but according to the flesh.'

St. Teresa Benedicta: a faithful daughter of Abraham, a faithful daughter of the Church.

Father Ryan's Sunday Sermons: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - The woman who ...

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"Stay Young" General MacArthur, 1945

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair, these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether seventy or seventeen there is in every beings heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of the stars and the starlight things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events and the childlike appetite for what’s next, and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the infinite, so long you are young.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Father Ryan Erlenbush, Sermon on St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - The woman who defeated Hitler

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