Signs of the Times  

 Praemonitus, praemunitas
 (Forewarned, forearmed)


     "Poor human reason when it trusts in itself substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."
                                                                                                St. John Chrysostom

    "The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelief that, even though late...I might turn with all my heart to the Lord my God, who regarded my low estate, and pitied the youth of my ignorance, and kept me before I knew Him, and before I had discernment."
                                                                                                St. Patrick

     "Although our view of the sublimest things is limited and weak, it is most pleasant to be able to watch but a glimpse of them.  These things are necessary for the salvation of man; to know that he ought to believe; to know what he ought to believe, and to know what he ought to do.
     Even some things which reason is able to investigate must be held by faith, so that all may share in the knowledge of God easily and without doubt and error."                                                            St. Thomas Aquinas

    "Oh, how glorious our Faith is!  Instead of restricting hearts, as the world fancies, it uplifts them and enlarges their capacity for love."
                                                                       St. Therese of Lisieux

     "Quietly to trust in God is better than trying to safeguard material interests.  I learned that from bitter experience."
                                                                   St. Emilie de Vialar

    "Perfection does not consist in not seeing the world, but in not having a taste or relish for it."                                                             St. Francis de Sales

     "The more we indulge ourselves in soft living and pampered bodies, the more rebellious they will become against the spirit."
                                                                     St. Rita of Cascia

     "If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery."
                                                                       St. Basil the Great

      "True liberty is not found except in voluntary poverty."
                                                                    St. Anthony of Padua


READING FROM LITURGY OF THE HOURS FOR JUNE 12, 2009

   "There is a certain wisdom which we express among the spiritually mature.  It is not a wisdom of this age, however, nor of the rulers of this age, who are men headed for destruction,  No, what we utter is God's wisdom: a mysterious, a hidden wisdom.  God planned it before all ages for our glory.  None of the rulers of this age knew they mysteryl if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.  Of this wisdom, it is written:
                              "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard,
                                nor has it so much as dawned on man
                                what God has prepared for those who love him."
    Yet God has revealed this wisdom to us through the Spirit...
                                                                                       1 Cor. 2:6-10

to be con't...