We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

Catherine Doherty

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With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again. by Catherine Doherty

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

Catherine Doherty

begin-again moments

Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?

Catherine Doherty

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Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to li... by Catherine Doherty

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

Catherine Doherty

heart giving children

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you. by Catherine Doherty

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

Catherine Doherty

bonfire real letting-go

Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

Catherine Doherty

faith dark night

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving,... by Catherine Doherty

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Catherine Doherty

terrible speech silence

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet... by Catherine Doherty

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

Catherine Doherty

garden silence soul

We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are... by Catherine Doherty

We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

Catherine Doherty

hereafter waiting christ

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. by Catherine Doherty

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Catherine Doherty

communication healing relationship

It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.

Catherine Doherty

tired communication life

What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Pers... by Catherine Doherty

What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.

Catherine Doherty

god-is-love together love-is

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendo... by Catherine Doherty

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

Catherine Doherty

matter

Faith sees God's face in every human face. by Catherine Doherty

Faith sees God's face in every human face.

Catherine Doherty

human-faces humans faces

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life... by Catherine Doherty

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

Catherine Doherty

human-life darkness hope

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple! by Catherine Doherty

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!

Catherine Doherty

sinner saint simple

Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise! by Catherine Doherty

Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!

Catherine Doherty

compromise

Faith is contagious when we show it to one another. by Catherine Doherty

Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

Catherine Doherty

contagious shows faith

She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man

Catherine Doherty

glory grace men

Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

Catherine Doherty

meals purpose should

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation nea... by Catherine Doherty

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

Catherine Doherty

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