Guest Posted November 8, 2018 Posted November 8, 2018 THURSDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2018 November is dedicated to The Souls in Purgatory Thursdays are dedicated to The Blessed Sacrament Daily Mass Online My daily LOTH posts are from The General Calendar. To find your own Liturgical Calendar, go to http://universalis.com/n-location.htm and scroll down. If your area does not have its own calendar, use The General Calendar as posted into this thread daily. Let us pray with the Universal Church THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS Office Readings - http://universalis.com/readings.htm Lauds - Morning Prayer http://universalis.com/lauds.htm Terce - http://universalis.com/terce.htm Sext - http://universalis.com/sext.htm None - http://universalis.com/none.htm Vespers - Evening Prayer http://universalis.com/vespers.htm Compline - Night Prayer http://universalis.com/compline.htm EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ONLINE LOCATED H E R E Mysteries of The Holy Rosary (Thursdays - Joyful Mysteries) https://www.catholic.org/prayers/mystery.php (scroll down)
Guest Posted November 8, 2018 Posted November 8, 2018 (edited) The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from Himself: He kindled it and He keeps it alive; and because it is His work, I trust many waters shall not quench it. - John Newton (1725-1807) ---O0O--- St Vincent de Paul Society (FAMVIN) Quote of the Day "We should help and support one another and strive for peace and union among ourselves. This is the wine that cheers and strengthens travelers along this narrow path of Jesus Christ" (IV:265). Edited November 8, 2018 by BarbaraTherese
Guest Posted November 8, 2018 Posted November 8, 2018 FRIDAY 9th November 2018 Today is the Feast of The Dedication of The Lateran Basilica The Lateran Basilica was built by the Emperor Constantine on the Lateran Hill in Rome in about 324. The feast of its dedication has been celebrated in Rome on this date since the twelfth century. In honour of the basilica, “the mother and head of all the churches of the City and the World,” the feast has been extended to the whole Roman Rite as a sign of unity and love towards the See of Peter, which, as St Ignatius of Antioch said in the second century, “presides over the whole assembly of charity.” November is dedicated to The Souls in Purgatory Fridays are dedicated to The Passion of Jesus and His Most Sacred Heart Year: B(II). Psalm week: 3. Liturgical Colour: White Daily Mass Online My daily LOTH posts are from The General Calendar. To find your own Liturgical Calendar, go to http://universalis.com/n-location.htm and scroll down. If your area does not have its own calendar, use The General Calendar as posted into this thread daily. Let us pray with the Universal Church THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS Office Readings - http://universalis.com/readings.htm Lauds - Morning Prayer http://universalis.com/lauds.htm Terce - http://universalis.com/terce.htm Sext - http://universalis.com/sext.htm None - http://universalis.com/none.htm Vespers - Evening Prayer http://universalis.com/vespers.htm Compline - Night Prayer http://universalis.com/compline.htm EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ONLINE H E R E Mysteries of The Holy Rosary (Fridays - Sorrowful Mysteries) https://www.catholic.org/prayers/mystery.php (scroll down)
Guest Posted November 9, 2018 Posted November 9, 2018 (edited) Origin and meaning of The Feast of The Dedication of The Lateran Basilica https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2014-11-09 Today The Universal Church on earth is gathered literally or in spirit in The Lateran Basilica “mother and head of all the churches of the city and the world.” We pray for The Holy Father and for the Universal Church for Truth and Peace, for Love and Unity. Come Holy Spirit and fill the hearts of all the faithful, please kindle in us the Fire of Divine Love, then send forth Your Spirit and You will be created and You will renew the face of the earth. "On this solemnity the Word of God recalls an essential truth: the temple of stones is a symbol of the living Church, the Christian community, which in their letters the Apostles Peter and Paul already understood as a “spiritual edifice,” built by God with “living stones,” namely, Christians themselves, upon the one foundation of Jesus Christ, who is called the “cornerstone” (cf. 1 Corinthians 3:9-11, 16-17; 1 Peter 2:4-8; Ephesians 2:20-22). “Brothers, you are God’s building,” St. Paul wrote, and added: “holy is God’s temple, which you are” (1 Corinthians 3:9c, 17)." ---o0o--- TWO LAY WOMEN ON WAY TO CANONIZATION : https://zenit.org/articles/pope-recognize-martyrdom-of-american-paves-way-for-beatification-of-two-italian-laypeople-and-mar/ Lay woman, mystic, stigmatic, and victim soul : http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2014/02/edvige-carboni.html http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/winter-flower Venerable Benedetta Bianchi Porro (a role model for those suffering and how to become a saint) Edited November 9, 2018 by BarbaraTherese
Guest Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 SATURDAY 10th November 2018 November is dedicated to The Souls in Purgatory Saturdays are dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary Year: B(II). Psalm week: 3. Liturgical Colour: White. My daily LOTH posts are from The General Calendar. To find your own Liturgical Calendar, go to http://universalis.com/n-location.htm and scroll down. If your area does not have its own calendar, use The General Calendar as posted into this thread daily. Let us pray with the Universal Church THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS Office Readings - http://universalis.com/readings.htm Lauds - Morning Prayer http://universalis.com/lauds.htm Terce - http://universalis.com/terce.htm Sext - http://universalis.com/sext.htm None - http://universalis.com/none.htm Vespers - Evening Prayer http://universalis.com/vespers.htm Compline - Night Prayer http://universalis.com/compline.htm EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ONLINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqW1lENuph0 Mysteries of The Holy Rosary (Saturdays - Glorious Mysteries) https://www.catholic.org/prayers/mystery.php (scroll down)
Guest Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 (edited) ---o0o--- St Mary's Monastery Church - Petersham MA http://www.stmarysmonastery.org Petersham, MA SIMPLICITY Does your family have all that you really need today? If so, then don't put your heart on hold till you can swing a below-ground swimming pool. That's exactly why inordinate desires can be so harmful: they DO put our hearts on hold, they take us out of the contented present and force us to live in an uncertain future of "when" and "if". That future is not real. We might never live to see it. We have no way of knowing whether or not we will live till lunch today. The present is all we have and anything that distracts our view from it is often a complete waste of time. Living in the now is a great reality check! I always hate discussions of simplicity that are so general that they leave people thinking: "Well, great, but how do I DO that?" Hence a few suggestions, not at all as norms, but just as ideas. Clothes. Almost everyone can make do with less, male or female. Before I became a monk, I generally had two pairs of slacks- one khaki and one navy blue. They looked preppy. They went with everything. Yes, after a while, people did notice I was always in one or the other, but so what? The shirts were different and I was clean. I got shirts came from the thrift shop: years of wear in good clothes for less than $5 a pop, less than $2 a pop if one waited till sale day. Recycle in your own home. Towels go down from the bath, to the kitchen, to rags. With all the rags you will soon accumulate living this way, you can say goodbye to paper towels, unless there is some reason you really need them. Cloth napkins? Wow! They even seem a bit upscale and you can stop buying one-use paper. Trust me, ordinarily washing them once a week is fine. This is not stinge, folks. Insofar as possible, consume stuff that is really good for you, avoid stuff that is wasteful or harmful. We become immune to the very high levels that our society actually encourages waste, almost demands it. By the way, you don't do this because it will end over-consumption. It won't. What it does, and this is important, is limit your complicity inthe nonsense. That, so long as one does not become self-righteous, canbe an immensely freeing thing. Always remember that modern consumerism thrives on and insists that we ALWAYS feel something is lacking. Not so, we can be free of that. Why be lied to any more? Love and prayers, Jerome, OSB Edited November 10, 2018 by BarbaraTherese
Guest Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 SUNDAY 11th November 2018 November is dedicated to The Souls in Purgatory Sundays are dedicated to The Resurrection & The Blessed Trinity Year: B(II). Psalm week: 4 Liturgical Colour: Green Let us pray with the Universal Church The Daily Prayer of The Church, of which Morning and Evening Prayer ARE the most important HERE THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS My daily LOTH posts are from The General Calendar. To find your own Liturgical Calendar, go to http://universalis.com/n-location.htm and scroll down. If your area does not have its own calendar, use The General Calendar as posted into this thread daily. Office Readings - http://universalis.com/readings.htm Lauds - Morning Prayer http://universalis.com/lauds.htm Terce - http://universalis.com/terce.htm Sext - http://universalis.com/sext.htm None - http://universalis.com/none.htm Vespers - Evening Prayer http://universalis.com/vespers.htm Compline - Night Prayer http://universalis.com/compline.htm EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ONLINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqW1lENuph0 Mysteries of The Holy Rosary (Sundays - Glorious Mysteries) https://www.catholic.org/prayers/mystery.php (scroll down) Real holiness and the road to holiness I have repeated the above video deliberately - it is not a mistake. The only problem is that I had not intended it to be merged with the Sunday Liturgy posts.
Guest Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/248662-abbe-faria-here-is-your-final-lesson---do-not “Abbe Faria: "Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, 'Vengeance is mine.'" Edmond Dantes: "I don't believe in God." Abbe Faria: "It doesn't matter. He believes in you.” (Count of Monte Cristo 2002)
Guest Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 Edmond: "Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes." (Movie: "Count of Monte Cristo" 2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245844/quotes Vincent's Quote of the Day (St Vincent de Paul Society) Nov 11, 2018 "God’s providence will never fail us as long as we do not fail in His service"(IV:284).
Guest Posted November 12, 2018 Posted November 12, 2018 MONDAY 18th November 2018 Feast of St Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr http://universalis.com/today.htm November is dedicated to The Souls in Purgatory Mondays are dedicated to The Holy Spirit & The Souls in Purgatory Year: B(II). Psalm week: 4 Liturgical Colour: Red Let us pray with the Universal Church The Daily Prayer of The Church, of which Morning and Evening Prayer ARE the most important My daily LOTH posts are from The General Calendar. To find your own Liturgical Calendar, go to http://universalis.com/n-location.htm and scroll down. If your area does not have its own calendar, use The General Calendar as posted into this thread daily. Monday 12th November 2018 Feast St Josaphat - Bishop and Martyr Office Readings - http://universalis.com/readings.htm Lauds - Morning Prayer http://universalis.com/lauds.htm Terce - http://universalis.com/terce.htm Sext - http://universalis.com/sext.htm None - http://universalis.com/none.htm Vespers - Evening Prayer http://universalis.com/vespers.htm Compline - Night Prayer http://universalis.com/compline.htm EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ONLINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqW1lENuph0 Mysteries of The Holy Rosary (Mondays - Joyful Mysteries) http://www.rosary-center.org/joyful.htm
Guest Posted November 12, 2018 Posted November 12, 2018 , Truth and love are wings that cannot be separated for truth cannot fly without love, nor can love soar without truth. - Ephraem the Syrian
Guest Posted November 12, 2018 Posted November 12, 2018 TUESDAY Tuesday 13th November 2018 November is dedicated to The Holy Souls in Purgatory Tuesdays are dedicated to The Holy Angels Year: B(II). Psalm week: 4 Liturgical Colour: Red THE DIVINE OFFICE Tuesday 13th November 2018 The Divine Office is the Daily Prayer of The Church, of which Morning and Evening Prayer ARE the most important My daily LOTH posts are from The General Calendar. To find your own Liturgical Calendar, go to http://universalis.com/n-location.htm and scroll down. If your area does not have its own calendar, use The General Calendar as posted into this thread daily. Office Readings - http://universalis.com/readings.htm Lauds - Morning Prayer http://universalis.com/lauds.htm Terce - http://universalis.com/terce.htm Sext - http://universalis.com/sext.htm None - http://universalis.com/none.htm Vespers - Evening Prayer http://universalis.com/vespers.htm Compline - Night Prayer http://universalis.com/compline.htm EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ONLINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqW1lENuph0 Mysteries of The Holy Rosary (Tuesdays - Sorrowful Mysteries) http://www.rosary-center.org/joyful.htm
Guest Posted November 12, 2018 Posted November 12, 2018 (edited) I have often read in Catholic Discussion forums that members are unable to find a spiritual director or even a close friend to whom to open up. I was like that for 20 years. I used to talk to Jesus openly and honestly asking Him to help me to be truly open and honest about myself and not deceived. I also would pray for a spiritual director. Since then I have had two spiritual directors, one a religious sister and the other a priest and religious, both of whom helped me in meaningful ways. And I still talk openly and honestly with Jesus and ask Him to help me to be truly open and honest about myself. I have never looked back about Thomas Merton since the day probably over 30 years or so ago when I first read "The Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas Merton. Possibly in the later years of his life, Thomas drifted a bit but it is said that he remained a man and priest of prayer celebrating Mass daily. But some of his thinking was a bit off. Never throw the baby out with the bathwater...........we are all a mixture of sinner and saint and our sinful self may never be known by others......others still (destined for fame perhaps especially) might have their sinner side well known....... and even sometimes misinterpreted, exaggerated etc. Edited November 12, 2018 by BarbaraTherese
Guest Posted November 13, 2018 Posted November 13, 2018 MEANINGFUL QUOTES FROM Thomas Merton The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more significant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. – Thomas Merton What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. – Thomas Merton Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. – Thomas Merton A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. – Thomas Merton Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest. – Thomas Merton It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: In our impatience we do away with him altogether. – Thomas Merton To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times. – Thomas Merton Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him. – Thomas Merton Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: For it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith. – Thomas Merton What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others. – Thomas Merton The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. – Thomas Merton If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. – Thomas Merton The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it. – Thomas Merton Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: You were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live. – Thomas Merton Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself. – Thomas Merton To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that Love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. – Thomas Merton The least of learning is done in the classrooms. – Thomas Merton How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man’s city? – Thomas Merton If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. – Thomas Merton Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. – Thomas Merton It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes. – Thomas Merton God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. – Thomas Merton You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. – Thomas Merton The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men. – Thomas Merton The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living. – Thomas Merton Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair. – Thomas Merton Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train. – Thomas Merton When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well. – Thomas Merton The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves – and perhaps very badly needed in India: They want to know if we have any saints to send them. – Thomas Merton A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. – Thomas Merton Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything. – Thomas Merton If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. – Thomas Merton The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger. – Thomas Merton There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us. – Thomas Merton We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. – Thomas Merton The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds. – Thomas Merton Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. – Thomas Merton Any fool knows that you don’t need money to get enjoyment out of life. – Thomas Merton Every moment and every event of everyman’s life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. – Thomas Merton Humility is the surest sign of strength. – Thomas Merton Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. – Thomas Merton I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: At most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another. – Thomas Merton Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. – Thomas Merton Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more. – Thomas Merton We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt. – Thomas Merton Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another. – Thomas Merton When ambition ends, happiness begins. – Thomas Merton Love seeks one thing only: The good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism. – Thomas Merton Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy. – Thomas Merton We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened. – Thomas Merton Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. – Thomas Merton By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. – Thomas Merton Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. – Thomas Merton Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. – Thomas Merton I stand before you tonight to represent the people who do not count: The poor, the poets, and monks. As long as there are people who are trying to realize the divine in themselves, there shall be hope in the world. – Thomas Merton We do not exist for ourselves. – Thomas Merton In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. – Thomas Merton Love is a special way of being alive. – Thomas Merton
Guest Posted November 13, 2018 Posted November 13, 2018 A different perspective and attitude ........in some ways......... ---o0o--- Another American saint?........ .......... and an inspirational biographical text.......... https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/sr-thea-bowmans-cause-for-canonization-could-open-at-us-bishops-meeting-82957 Excerpt: "Baltimore, Md., Nov 11, 2018 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Sr. Thea Bowman was the first African American woman to address the U.S. bishops' conference. Most likely, she was also the first person to get them to hold hands and sing and sway to a Negro Spiritual." What a sight that would have been. Sr Thea Bowman's cause for canonization could open at US bishops' meeting 2018
Guest Posted November 13, 2018 Posted November 13, 2018 WHAT THE CHURCH TEACHES ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY H E R E (In some ways it is what the article is stating and also what it is not stating ........yet clearly implying. A must read in conjunction with the CCC on Sin: HERE - scroll down to THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SIN....and...THE GRAVITY OF SIN: MORTAL AND VENIAL SIN)
Guest Posted November 13, 2018 Posted November 13, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, BarbaraTherese said: A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. – Thomas Merton I think differently because I think that we should think about how to live every day of our lives..........i.e. an examination of conscience asks the question "How am I living out my ..........days, weeks etc? How can I live as I desire to live?" I think that I know I have found my vocation when I have stopped asking myself if it is my vocation and have a sense of Peace and Joy in The Lord transcending any problems or difficulties. That does not mean that there is no conflict or difficulty(ies) currently or perhaps in the future. No matter what is happening in one's life on any level, Peace and Joy in The Lord can be a constant. Sometimes my bipolar mind (I'll blame bipolar ) is thrashing around on some difficulty or problem on some level or other and with anxiety - but then if and when I avert to The Lord, I am at Peace and Joy in Him transcending the anxiety but not necessarily eliminating it - that The Lord is in control of my life in all things. I am just making a lot of noise. 2 hours ago, BarbaraTherese said: You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt. – Thomas Merton I stopped at the above quote for a bit - but then realised that knowing how to doubt is one disposition, actually doubting is another. I think that doubting implies a journey while doubt implies an arrival. Knowing how to doubt means that I have the inner freedom to doubt if I choose to do so for some reason. Doubt, doubting and denial and denying are all different. Edited November 13, 2018 by BarbaraTherese
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