Posts Tagged ‘Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen’
The power of a broken heart
“Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the death of our Lord and his broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on the way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”
Read More“All find God”
“You give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you my eternity…”
Read MoreDo you have fire and conviction?
Please, be merciful O Lord
“It is so hard to admit that one is a sinner; it is so hard to climb the hill of Calvary and kneel beneath a cross and ask for pardon, forgiveness. Certainly it is hard. But it is harder to hang there.”
Read MoreYour suffering matters
“A stone thrown into the ocean affects even the most distant shore. Doctors graft skin from the body; if it is possible to graft skin, why is it not possible to graft prayer; if it is possible to transfuse blood, why is it not possible to transfuse sacrifice? The sacrifices I make can therefore be applied to others.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Wartime Prayer Book) The Venerable Bishop Sheen paraphrases St. Paul so beautifully …
Read MoreThe danger of Christ without the cross
I think our culture has it wrong.
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