“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Inspirational thoughts
Good Friday
“The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.” – St. John Eudes
Holy Thursday
“The washing of the feet and the sacrament of the Eucharist: two expressions of one and the same mystery of love entrusted to the disciples, so that, Jesus says, “as I have done… so also must you do” (Jn 13: 15).” – St. John Paul II
Loved ones…
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. Well all know that our time in this world is limited. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things.”
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The Reptile Room, by Lemony Snicket
Prayers
“Love your children. In them you can see baby Jesus. Pray for them a lot, and every day put them under Holy Mary’s protection.” St. Gianna Molla
Stretched
“Man was created for greatness—for God himself; he was created to be filled by God. But his heart is too small for the greatness to which it is destined. It must be stretched.” ~ Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Boston Marathon
Just 3 weeks to the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15th. Grateful to God to be injury free and I am excited for marathon #10! Offering up all the training and the race for more priestly vocations!!
Wasting time?
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Sport
“Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole person, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth….”
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Caring enough?
“UNLESS someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.”
-Lorax, Dr. Seuss