tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83489182225431978382024-03-13T23:29:25.744-04:00Little Portion HermitageFounded for the glory of God and inspired by the example of St Francis of Assisi, Little Portion Hermitage is a place of Christ-centered solitude, sacred silence, and intercessory prayer. We believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church teaches, believes and proclaims to be revealed by God. The hermit residing at Little Portion is a person in Consecrated Life in accord with Canon 603, under the jurisdiction of the bishop of the Diocese of Portland, ME.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger681125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348918222543197838.post-44892183457747925612014-03-11T13:57:00.002-04:002014-03-11T13:57:24.537-04:00
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Please visit littleportionhermitage.org instead.
Pax et Bonum!
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And Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks,
he broke it and gave it to them, saying “This is my body,
which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
~Luke 22:19
"Therefore let us keep the Feast, not with the old bread leavened with malice
and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
~1 Corinthians 5:8
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Blessing on this Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul!
May the witness of these apostles and martyrs inspire us to live (and die, if necessary) for the splendor and fullness of God's plan of loving goodness made manifest in the Lord Jesus and His Church.
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“The glory of God is a human being fully alive;
and to be alive consists in beholding God.”
+ St. Irenaeus
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
St. Irenaeus, pray for us.
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Happy Feast Day!
St. Josemaria, pray for us.
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God is the Living One; Jesus brings us the life of God; the Holy Spirit gives and keeps us in our new life as true sons and daughters of God. But all too often, people do not choose life, they do not accept the “Gospel of Life” but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348918222543197838.post-25557742143568278882013-06-24T05:00:00.002-04:002013-06-24T05:00:40.567-04:00
"The only way to make rapid progress along the path of divine love is to remain very little and to put all our trust in Almighty God. That is what I have done." ~Saint Therese of Lisieux
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And do not forget to show kindness to strangers,
for in so doing, some of you will have served Angels. ~Hebrews 13:2
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“I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.” ~St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr
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“The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.” ~G. K. Chesterton
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"We do not cause our holiness, we consent to it." ~Kristina Terry
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“God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity more fully prepared for the sowing of the Gospel. ... No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples." ~Bl. John Paul II
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"Discouragement is an enemy of your perseverance. If you don't fight against discouragement you will become pessimistic first, and lukewarm afterwards. Be an optimist." ~St. Josemaría Escrivá
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God wants men to be free. Free to demonstrate toughness when a situation or relationship demands it. Free to display grit, strength, commitment, and decisiveness under the Holy Spirit’s direction. God also wants men to be free to demonstrate tenderness, sensitivity and humility. Free to be vulnerable enough to foster intimacy and to shed tears. Authentic masculinity produces a divine elasticity Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348918222543197838.post-88600788145766741522013-06-15T06:05:00.002-04:002013-06-15T06:05:20.873-04:00
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” ~Corrie ten Boom
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Is anti-Catholicism the last acceptable prejudice? Maybe so. But Christ is a divisive figure who makes us choose for or against God. The world has a way of protecting its conventions by punishing those who make the right choice. ~Jeff Mirus
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"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering." ~Saint Augustine
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“If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not because God didn’t care for them, but because you and I didn’t give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise—in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, seeking Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348918222543197838.post-58946393487884890232013-06-09T06:13:00.001-04:002013-06-09T06:13:36.014-04:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348918222543197838.post-91174100670379227102013-06-08T06:05:00.000-04:002013-06-08T06:05:27.066-04:00
And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel,
and for a sign to be opposed
— and a sword will pierce even your own soul —
to the end that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”
~Luke 2:34-35
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If you've ever felt like a "black sheep,"
have we got a Shepard for you!
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"If Christ is growing in us, if we are at peace, recollected, because we know that however insignificant our life seems to be, from it He is forming Himself; if we go in eager haste, to whatever our circumstances compel us, because we believe that He desires to be in that place, we will find that we are driven more and more to act on the impulse of His love....It is not necessary at this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348918222543197838.post-55697934858149776802013-06-02T05:39:00.002-04:002013-06-02T05:39:58.440-04:00
"Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348918222543197838.post-26150308244854732562013-05-30T05:57:00.004-04:002013-05-30T05:57:50.669-04:00
“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.” ~David Platt
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“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choicesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0