Mother Angelica on Receiving Correction with Love
Receiving correction hurts us right in the heart, but it’s the secret of holiness. I don’t mean you need to go around griping at people and letting everybody gripe at you. What I’m saying is that God Himself allows us to be corrected. What do you expect love to do? Love corrects! When your parents […]
We all have a favorite enemy. In your memory, you have someone or something that is like a security blanket that you love, and it’s evil. It’s bad news! In your memory there are shelves, just like a storehouse. And you have little jars that go back to when you were three years old, including […]
Do you ever feel like you want something really bad, but you aren’t really sure God can give it to you? There’s a joke about a woman who had a big mountain behind her house, and she couldn’t see the valley on the other side. She got angry, and she knew her Gospel so she […]
We’ve got to know why we were created. We were created to know Him, to love Him, to serve Him, and to be like Him so our neighbors will look at us and see Jesus. Remember, you may be the only Jesus your neighbor will ever see. And so your mission in life is great. You have great dignity and great power, and you’re supposed to be a new creation, not the old man.
Holiness is to struggle day after day, to forgive seventy times seven times; to be hurt and to say, “Lord, forgive my enemy; forgive the person who hurt me”; to be able to see yourself and not fall apart. All of that is holiness.
The first Christians sang all the time, sometimes even as they were in the arena waiting to be devoured by lions. Can you imagine what a beautiful song that must have been to God?
To most of us, Heaven is rather abstract. It’s a kind of fuzzy thing. Often in life, we look forward to events — graduations, doctorates, marriage, and so on. But when our anticipation is great, the event, when it occurs, seems to lose something. That’s why, I believe, we don’t like to talk about Heaven. […]
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