This makes me think... about what gives us meaning.

The resurrection of Christ is not the fruit of speculation or mystical experience: it is an event which, while it surpasses history, nevertheless happens at a precise moment in history and leaves an indelible mark upon it. The light which dazzled the guards keeping watch over Jesus’ tomb has traversed time and space. It is a different kind of light, a divine light, that has rent asunder the darkness of death and has brought to the world the splendour of God, the splendour of Truth and Goodness.

Just as the sun’s rays in springtime cause the buds on the branches of the trees to sprout and open up, so the radiance that streams forth from Christ’s resurrection gives strength and meaning to every human hope, to every expectation, wish and plan. Hence the entire cosmos is rejoicing today, caught up in the springtime of humanity, which gives voice to creation’s silent hymn of praise. The Easter Alleluia, resounding in the Church as she makes her pilgrim way through the world, expresses the silent exultation of the universe and above all the longing of every human soul that is sincerely open to God, giving thanks to him for his infinite goodness, beauty and truth.

---Benedict XVI, Urbi et Orbi, Easter 2012.

This makes me think...

She [Mary] holds all the great Truths of Christianity together, as a piece of wood holds a kite.  Children wrap the string of a kite around a stick and release the string as the kite climbs to the heavens.  Mary is like that piece of wood.  Around her we wrap all the precious strings of the great Truths of our holy Faith -- for example, the Incarnation, the Eucharist, the Church.  No matter how far we get about the earth, as the kite may, we always have need of Mary to hold the doctrines of the Creed together.  If we threw away the stick, we would no longer have the kite; if we threw away Mary, we would never have Our Lord.  He would be lost in the Heavens, like our runaway kite, and that would be terrible, indeed,  for us on earth.

---Bishop Fulton Sheen, The World's First Love, Mary Mother of God


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Victory

The victory that Christ won over sin has given us greater blessings 

than those which sin had taken from us. 

-- Catechism of the Catholic Church 420.

It Makes Me Think...

The Eternal Truth says, "My infinite good can't be contained by anything less than itself, just like a ship at sea can't ever hold the whole sea. The ship can only hold as much as it can hold, and no more. Only the ocean contains itself fully.


In the same way, I who am the sea of Peace am the only one who can contain and appreciate Myself fully. This makes Me rejoice in Myself, and of course I share all My joy and all My good with you, with each of you, as you are able to accept them.


May you know and embrace as much of My goodness as I give you."


---St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogue