The Center Contemplative Podcast

Living Life and Sustaining Love: Help me feel your attracting grace in the universe,which keeps everything from coming apart. May the Word of Christ hold me together with wisdom and love.I give thanks for your Word and consent to being held by it so to remain at center with you. Amen.Peter Traben Haas, Centering Prayers

In the ancient Celtic imagination, this was considered to be a “thin time” when the veil between heaven and earth grew more transparent and the wisdom of our ancestors was closer to us. We are reassured that we are not alone, that we share the world with a great “cloud of witnesses” and “communion of saints” just across the veil. This season is a threshold space and in thresholds we are closer to the other world which is always here.

Christine Valters Paintner

Then in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: “O Jesus, my Love… my vocation, at last I have found it…MY VOCATION IS LOVE! Yes, I have found my place in the Church,and it is You, O my God, who have given me this place; in the heart of the Church, my Mother, I will be Love.Thus I shall be everything, and thus my dream shall be realized.Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul

Yes, I feel it, when I am charitable, it is Jesus alone who is acting in me,and the more united I am to Him, the more also do I love my sisters.Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul

Remaining little before God… is to recognize our nothingness, to expect everything from God as a little child expects everything from its father; it is to be disquieted about nothing, and not to be set on gaining our living… To be little is not attributing to oneself the virtues that one practices, believing oneself capable of anything, but to recognize that God places this treasure in the hands of His little child to be used when necessary; but it remains always God’s treasure.

Thérèse of Lisieux, Last Conversations, August 6, 1897

He set before me the book of nature; I understood how all the flowers he has created are beautiful, how the splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the Lily do not take away the perfume of the little violet or the delightful simplicity of the daisy…. Perfection consists in doing his will, in being what he wills us to be.Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul

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