Quotes

3 Apr 2011

Fourth Sunday of Lent, Cycle A

He who restored the man to health by anointing his eyes with clay is the very one who fashioned the first man out of clay, and . . . this clay that is our flesh can receive the light of eternal life through the sacrament of baptism.

--Ambrose of Milan (339-397

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
"We wait and wait, and they keep saying it's coming."

James Tyson, a jobless Philadelphia homeowner, speaking about a federal mortgage aid program that was announced last summer but has not yet accepted applications.

Source: The New York Times

 

27 Mar 2011

Third Sunday of Lent, Cycle A

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. 

--Mark Twain (1835-1910)

To hold to God is to rely on the fact that God is there for me, and to live in this certainty. 

--Karl Barth (1886-1968)

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
"We are in Libya because of oil. It all goes back to the 5 million barrels of oil we import from OPEC on a daily basis."

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.)

Source: Quoted on MSNBC, March 21, 2011

20 Mar 2011

Second Sunday of Lent, Cycle A

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. 

--The Odyssey

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. 

--Arab proverb

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“All we want is for America not to support the dictatorship in Bahrain.”

Zeinab Al-Khawaja, a Bahraini protest organizer. On Wednesday thousands of mainly Shi'ite antigovernment protesters were driven out of a square in the capital by police with tear gas and shotguns.

Source: TIME

13 Mar 2011

First Sunday of Lent, Cycle A

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God . . . by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live . . . .

--Deuteronomy 30:16

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

Draw near to God, and Satan will flee from you.

--Ephraem the Syrian (c. 306-373)

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“The church community, assiduous in prayer and charitable works, intensifies her journey in purifying the spirit, so as to draw more abundantly from the mystery of redemption the new life in Christ the Lord.”


Message of Pope Benedict XVI for Lent

Source: www.usccb.org/lent and www.vatican.va

6 Mar 2011

Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

--C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

To what should we compare one of many good works and an assiduous student of the Torah? To one who lays the foundation in stone and then uses bricks.

--A rabbinical saying

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“One of the chants they’ve been saying is, ‘This is what religion looks like,’ as they’re out there at the state capitol chanting and protesting. . . . To them, this is faith-based action.”


Kevin Eckstrom, editor of Religion News Service, speaking about the religious implications of the Wisconsin standoff on legislation curbing union rights.

Source: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

27 Feb 2011

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

The soul can split the sky in two, and let the face of God shine through.

--Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

There can be no kingdom of God in the world without the kingdom of God in our hearts

--Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
 
PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“We will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000.”

Jason Clay, of the World Wildlife Fund, on the U.N. prediction that the global population will reach 9 billion by 2050 and that people will be competing for ever-scarcer resources

Source: TIME

20 Feb 2011

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
—Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime.”


Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, the Iraqi defector whose claims that Iraq had chemical weapons were used to justify the 2003 U.S. invasion of that country, admitting that he manufactured the information in order to help get rid of Saddam Hussein

Source: TIME

13 Feb 2011

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
—Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.)

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
—William Blake (1757-1827)

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“We had people who were animatedly fearful of anything to do with Islam.”

Willie Winbrey, assistant principal at Cross Timbers Elementary School in Texas, on the district's decision to suspend an Arabic-language program due to parental backlash

Source: TIME

 

6 Feb 2011

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

The one who does a pure and whole work from God merits a whole kingdom.

--John of the Cross (1542-1591)

Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

--Psalm 119:105
 
PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“They want us to leave and seed discord between the Jewish and Muslim communities who have long lived in harmony.”


Perez Trabelski, a Jewish leader in Djerba, off the coast of Tunisia, on the burning of a Tunisian synagogue by gangs, the first attack on a Jewish institution since the start of the unrest that led to the ouster of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali

Source: TIME

30 Jan 2011

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

When Jesus and his disciples are said to be in the world but not of the world, the meaning is clear enough. Although they live in the world they are not worldly, they do not subscribe to the present values and standards of the world.
--Albert Nolan, O.P.

The foundation of our way to God is to advance on the way of life with great patience, humility, poverty of spirit, and meekness. All these lead us to justice--and by justice, we mean the Lord himself.
--Macarius (c. 302-392)

PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
"The most broadly based access to the developing world is through religious people, and so it is a tragedy if they are not embraced in the overall development process."


Former World Bank president James Wolfensohn

Source: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, January 21, 2011

 

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