Quotes

12 Feb 2012

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Only say the word and my servant will be healed.

--Matthew 8:8

 

Jesus confirms and corroborates what the leper had said and . . . does not merely answer, 'Be made clean.' . . . He verifies the truth glimpsed by the man . . . .

--Saint John Chrysostom (347-407 C.E.)

 
PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
"We have two sets of Indians. One section of the people is racing ahead while the majority are limping."

Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, speaking at the bishops' biennial assembly last week on how the widening of the gap between rich and poor is “a matter of serious concern for the church."

Source: Ecumenical News International

5 Feb 2012

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Saints who really live, who are greater than life, who no longer look at themselves guide us to God, who is at the core of our life, who is the only real experience that reveals humans to humans. --Maurice Zundel (1897-1975)

Saints who really live, who are greater than life, who no longer look at themselves guide us to God, who is at the core of our life, who is the only real experience that reveals humans to humans. 

--Maurice Zundel (1897-1975)

Rightly is my hope strong in Him, who sits at Thy right hand and intercedes for us . . . . For many and great are my infirmities, many and great; but Thy medicine is of more power.

--Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 C.E.)

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
"They're inviting people to join them in service to others, and to learn about religious life." 

Robyn Moeller, development assistant for the Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God in Whitehall, Pennsylvania. To prepare for the U.S. parish celebration of the World Day for Consecrated Life this weekend, women religious in western Pennsylvania are hosting food drives and inviting donors into their homes for a visit.

Source: North Hill News (Penn.) via FamVin.org

29 Jan 2012

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

The first duty of love is to listen. ​--Paul Tillich (1886-1965

The first duty of love is to listen.
--Paul Tillich (1886-1965

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“I might have tacos when I go home; I’m not quite sure yet.”

East Haven, Connecticut Mayor Joseph Maturo responding to a news reporter’s question, “What are you doing for the Latino community today?” after the arrest of four police offers in the New Haven suburb on charges of waging a campaign of harassment against Latino residents and businesses. Maturo later apologized for his comments.

Source: The Washington Post

22 Jan 2012

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here! ​-Luke 11:32

The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here!
-Luke 11:32

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“Many donors wanted proof of a humanitarian catastrophe before acting to prevent one.”

A report by Oxfam and Save the Children, saying that thousands of needless deaths occurred from famine in East Africa last year because the international community failed to heed early warnings

Source: TIME

15 Jan 2012

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Vocation doesn't come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about . . . or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my expectations. ​-Parker Palmer

Vocation doesn't come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about . . . or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my expectations.
-Parker Palmer

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided [people]. . . . Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, January 16 is the federal holiday observing King’s birthday.

Source: Prepare the Word’s Exploring the Word reflection for Sunday, January 15

8 Jan 2012

Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, Cycle B

Lord Jesus . . . . every presence makes me feel that you are near; every touch is the touch of your hand; every necessity transmits to me a pulse of your will.

--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

The day on which Christ first showed himself . . . as the savior of the world should be held in holy reverence by us. We should experience in our hearts the same joy as the three wise men felt when the sign of the new star led them into the presence of the king of heaven and earth, and they gazed in adoration upon the one in whose promised coming they had put their faith.

--Leo the Great (c. 400-461)

Today the Bridegroom claims his bride, the church, since Christ has washed away her sins in Jordan's waters; the magi hasten with their gifts to the royal wedding; and the wedding guests rejoice . . . alleluia.

--Antiphon for Morning Prayer, Epiphany

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“Bishop Zavala told me that he submitted his resignation to the Holy Father in Rome . . . . The archdiocese has reached out to the mother and children to provide spiritual care as well as funding to assist the children with college costs.”

Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, commenting on the resignation of auxiliary bishop Gabino Zavala, 60, who informed Gomez in early December that he was the father of two teenage children who live with their mother in another state

Source: Reuters

18 Dec 2011

Fourth Sunday of Advent, Cycle B

When I hear people talk about their partnership with God, I keep wondering which one they think ought to be the silent partner.

--heard at a pastoral council meeting

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“You know how it takes a village to raise a child? It takes the church to raise a vocation. The future of religious life isn’t dependent on the religious themselves; it’s an issue for the entire church.”

Brother Paul Bednarczyk, C.S.C., executive director of the National Religious Vocation Conference 

Source: “Admission deferred: Modern barriers to vocations,” U.S. Catholic

11 Dec 2011

Third Sunday of Advent, Cycle B

Spiritual disciplines, whether ecstatic or ascetic, are an integral part of our experience of religious joy.

--Rose Marie Berger, "Pursuing the Secret of Joy," Sojourners

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“The image that comes to mind is of a high-speed train that is barreling straight toward a wall. We're under the impression that no one is putting on the brakes.”


Bishop Nicolas Djomo, president of the Catholic bishops' conference of Congo, on fears of violence as results from the country's presidential election were released Tuesday

Source: TIME

4 Dec 2011

Second Sunday of Advent, Cycle B

John the Baptist . . . was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

--James Green Somerville

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“I love to define mystery as not that which is unknowable, but that which is endlessly knowable. . . . And wouldn’t we assume that would be the nature of God? That God by definition will always be mystery?”

Father Richard Rohr, O.F.M., speaking in Portland, Oregon

Source: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

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