tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post5827020248132070222..comments2024-02-09T02:48:13.776-06:00Comments on Daily Meditations with Fr. Alfonse: Mt 23:13-22 Woe to you, you hypocrites! Wow!Fr. Alfonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02557206560119402976noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post-38332957406559150222012-08-30T23:21:50.205-05:002012-08-30T23:21:50.205-05:00The best definition I've heard of hell is the ...The best definition I've heard of hell is the torture of being separated from the beloved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post-49938694084883159922012-08-29T07:22:54.298-05:002012-08-29T07:22:54.298-05:00AMEN!!!!!!AMEN!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post-2388457013090699512012-08-28T22:41:07.067-05:002012-08-28T22:41:07.067-05:00‘We, as Christians, tend to think that the closer ...‘We, as Christians, tend to think that the closer we are to God - the more blessed we are - the less we will suffer.’ A friend of mine calls this “The god of swimming pools” because her family never had a swimming pool: swimming pools were the sign of being very blessed! I read the lives of the saints and a common thread in many of their stories is how happy, blessed, joyful they were in their sufferings!! It is not that they were sad that they ‘had’ to offer their pain – they wanted more sufferings! St Lawrence wanted to be turned over on the grill when he was ‘done’ on one side! St Joan of Arc smiled when she was burned at the stake! St Rita wanted to have the thorn of Christ’s crown penetrate her forehead even when it became so infected that worms would appear! I just finished reading a book on Mother Teresa: ‘What tortures of loneliness. I wonder how long will my heart suffer this?....If my separation from You brings others to You and in their love and company – You find joy and pleasure – why Jesus, I am willing with all my heart to suffer all that I suffer – not only now – but for all eternity – if this is possible.” I remember reading some of these stories when I was in college, searching my heart out for “The Way”. I knew that there had to be a special grace given to these people – it was not natural! There had to be some type of supernatural intervention for them ‘wanting’ to suffer!!!! If our world is upside down, this makes total sense. “The Lord was not a weak man.” But in the eyes of earth, he was! If I can take my small (& big) everyday sacrifices and temptations that are hard! and TRY to only want Him in His forsakenness, out of compassion only for Him, I often do find Love. This is what helps me through my temptations. So many times, I think that I can’t do this anymore!! It is only Him forsaken that gets me through the tough moments. <br />“We live for it, and when we are through with it, we look again to satiate our appetite; looking for the next sensation, which is typically more daring, thrilling, appealing and appalling.” How true! How true! What if we Catholics looked at and lived suffering with these eyes of sensation? “The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians.”<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post-69760948208838208372012-08-28T10:21:20.273-05:002012-08-28T10:21:20.273-05:00my silly typo: GOD Bless u My Father ;)my silly typo: GOD Bless u My Father ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522578039872040238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post-61237536686131627962012-08-27T14:00:40.396-05:002012-08-27T14:00:40.396-05:00When reading your Meditations one after another. I...When reading your Meditations one after another. I truly believe this my Favorite one Father Alfonse ;)<br /><br />Good bless u My Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522578039872040238noreply@blogger.com