July 2012
12 posts
“Our Lord spoke seven times from the Cross; these are called His Seven Last Words. In His goodness, Our Blessed Lord left His thoughts on dying. He was representative of all humanity. In this sublime hour He called all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He said to them was set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation. There was never a preacher like the dying Christ; there was never a congregation like that which gathered about the pulpit of the Cross; there was never a sermon like the Seven Last Words.”
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Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ: The Seven Words from the Cross
“So powerful is this thirst that the Lord relates it to the unity of His person: I thirst! That is the guarantee of the resurrection of the flesh.”
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Hans Urs von Balthasar, To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption (via invisibleforeigner)
Church graveyard in Morwenstow, a little hamlet about 6 miles north of Bude in Cornwall, England.
“Remember that the passion of Christ ends always in the joy of the resurrection of Christ, so when you feel in your own heart the suffering of Christ, remember the resurrection has to come. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.”
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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (via breakyourknees)
“Let us go to the foot of the Cross, and there complain—if we have the courage.”
—St Madeleine Sophie Barat (via eternallyadoring)
