Gifts
Gifts come in all sizes and shapes, and in the spiritual life can come in the most unexpected of ways.
Honesty and discernment
Have you ever had an important choice to make and didn’t know how to discern the best decision? Our rich Catholic heritage has the answer: “Everyone must keep in mind that in all that concerns the spiritual life, his progress will be in proportion to his surrender of self-love and of his own will and interests.” (St. Ignatius of Loyola, sp. ex. 189)
Proof that we are His children
Jesus is our Good Shepherd Whose voice we know because It exists in our soul, directing us to Him in whispers. But we must choose to follow it and to remain in the fold by habits of virtue.
Of this we are witnesses
“The author of life you put to death, but God raised Him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.” (Acts 3:15)
Mary’s anguish
Some holy authors say that the blood and water which gushed forth from the side of Jesus was His Sacred Heart breaking as He looked upon His mother, helpless to console her anguish. The two hearts forever adjoined, for just a moment, experienced separation. And the whole earth quaked.