Receiving Everything

Posted on February 4, 2014 by nadodi

I asked for strength
and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for wisdom
and God gave me problems to learn to solve.

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Persistence and Determination

Posted on January 29, 2014 by nadodi

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; Continue reading →

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Second Life

Posted on January 28, 2014 by nadodi

I love the dark hours of my being
in which my senses drop into the deep.
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Grace Within Us

Posted on August 1, 2013 by nadodi

“…And this always brings us, as individuals and as a Company, to humility, to living this great virtue. Humility that makes us understand, each day, that it is not for us to build the Kingdom of God, but it is always the grace of God working within us; humility that pushes us to put our whole being not at the service of ourselves and our own ideas, but at the service of Christ and of the Church, like clay pots, fragile, inadequate, insufficient, but having within them an immense treasure that we carry and that we communicate.”

~ Pope Francis at a mass today to celebrate the feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order (from The Daily Dish Quote for the Day).

Perfectly fits any faith or belief methinks. :)

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Struggle Between the Right and Left Hands

Posted on July 29, 2013 by nadodi
Oxford May 2013

Oxford May 2013

The first is Dorothy Day’s views expressed around the time of World War II (1939 – 1945):

One of Dorothy’s main themes was that the works of mercy – all that we do for the most vulnerable members of society – are the polar opposite of the works of war. Why undo with your left hand what you do with your right? Clothing the naked one day – and burning them alive the next? Giving drink to the thirsty on Monday, only to destroy the water works on Tuesday? Housing the homeless, then incinerating the city? The Catholic Worker way, Dorothy said again and again, was the way of the Cross, not the way of the crucifiers. “War is the continuing passion of Christ,” she wrote, “and Christ did not come down from the Cross to defend Himself.”

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Work is Love Made Visible

Posted on May 21, 2013 by nadodi

Farmers Ploughing, Andhra Pradesh, India (cc) CGIAR Climate

Farmers Ploughing, Andhra Pradesh, India (cc) CGIAR Climate

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

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when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.

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