Musings of Our Hearts: Recent Episodes
Sindhu & Nitya
“O Priest! You are not of yourself
because you are of God.
You are not of yourself
because you are the servant and minister of Christ.
You are not your own
because you are the spouse of the Church.
You are not yourself because
you are the mediator between God and man.
You are not from yourself
because you are nothing.
What then are you?
Nothing and everything.
O Priest!
Take care, lest what was said to Christ on the cross
be said to you: ‘He saved others, himself he cannot save!”
"The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course."
“God will rescue me. But you will not see how he does it, because he will take my soul and leave you only my body.”
"The Lord sometimes makes you feel the weight of the cross. Although the weight seems intolerable, you are able to carry it, because the Lord in his love and mercy, extends a hand to you and gives you strength."
"It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength I will dare and dare and dare until I die."
"True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man, man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself."
"I have never felt I am a slave to any man or woman, but I am a servant of the Almighty God who made us all. When one of His children is in need, I am glad to be His slave."
"I would be a missionary not for a few years only, but from the beginning of creation till the consummation of ages." -St Therese the Little Flower
"Cast yourselves into the arms of God and be very sure that if He wants anything of you He will fit you for the work and give you strength."
"Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all it's imperfections."
"Courage! We are not in the world to follow our own will and pleasure but to imitate the Lord."
"I am not afraid to die. I know already what it is to die. It is to close the eyes to the world and open them to God."
"Practice well among yourselves: charity, charity, charity and outside, zeal, for the salvation of souls."
"You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love."
Four teenage girls, Rose, Abigail, Isabel, and Jessy join us to reflect on this young martyr who died in defence of chastity!
"In times of desolation God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him."
"Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith." -Pope Francis
"We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son." - Pope St John Paul II
“Union with God … is the spiritual height God calls everyone to achieve — anyone, not only religious, but anyone … who says ‘Yes’ constantly to God.”
“I find myself so bound to the divine will that neither death nor life is important: I want to live as he wishes and I want to serve him as he likes, and nothing more.”