Doodle Acres

The theological virtues are practiced essentially by the will.  When they are accompanied by feeling, the practice of them is pleasant and consoling; but when the act must be made by the will alone, then this exercise is dry and cold, but is not for this reason of less merit; on the contrary, it is [...]

God does not account for His actions nor does He reveal his plans to us; therefore, it is difficult to endure in faith and hope – difficult, but not impossible, for God never sends us trials which are beyond our strength, just as He never abandons us unless we first abandon Him.

-Divine Intimacy, Father Gabriel [...]

God loves us, not because we are without sin, but because we are his children, in whom He has diffused His grace.  We should never insult God by refusing to believe in His forgiveness; neither should we become discouraged because of the faults which escape us in spite of our good will.  If we become [...]

If, in the face of difficulties and sacrifices imposed on us by our duties, we stop to calculate our strength, we will draw back and be tempted to give up;  but if, on the contrary, we stop looking at ourselves and turn our eyes to God, to His infinite love, the certitude of His help [...]

Baptism has begotten us to the life of the spirit, but it has not suppressed the life of the flesh in us; the new man must always struggle against the old man, the spiritual must fight against the corporeal.  Baptismal grace does not excuse us from this battle, but it gives us the power to [...]