tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post5743805935196533122..comments2024-03-21T04:02:46.799-07:00Comments on Little Catholic Bubble: Fulton Sheen, Part V: The Fifth Word and the Virtue of Temperance Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-25297736617334643122013-03-22T05:54:46.506-07:002013-03-22T05:54:46.506-07:00Excellent series, Leila. Wisdom upon wisdom. Tha...Excellent series, Leila. Wisdom upon wisdom. Thank you.Nubbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15972118374098863290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-84805435947806924562013-03-21T18:09:18.248-07:002013-03-21T18:09:18.248-07:00I am loving this series! Shakespeare said "Ho...I am loving this series! Shakespeare said "How beautiful, how temperate" that has always stuck with me. Temperance is one of the virtues that we don't pay too much attention to but when we do the rewards from God are great. Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670331855264293102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-9755472555774695132013-03-20T11:51:43.008-07:002013-03-20T11:51:43.008-07:00Boy, I'm having a hard time leaving a comment ...Boy, I'm having a hard time leaving a comment today! this is my second attempt. <br /><br />What I wanted to say (but now I have to shorten it) is that I'm learning through my own battles with my weaknesses, human pride, and crosses, that we don't thank God enough for the crosses he sends us for our holiness. It's rare for us to really be thankful for hardships--but I think that's because we are used to looking at things in the human context and hiding behind the "I'm only human" excuse. God made us to become divine. Are we really going to use the "I'm only human" excuse when we have to face Him?<br /><br />Here is a great quote from St.Josemaria Escriva. This is taken from his book The Way of the Cross--it is such a great book filled with points of meditations after each station--great esepcially for Lent!<br /><br /> " 'St Peter writes: through Jesus Christ, God has given us high and treasured promises, to make you sharers in the divine nature.' (2 Pet 1:4.)<br /><br />This divinisation of ours does not mean that we cease to be human...Men, yes, but with a horror of grave sin. Men who loathe venial faults and who, while having daily experience of their weakness, are aware too of the power of God.<br /><br />This way nothing can stop us: neither human respect, nor our passions, nor this flesh of ours which rebels because of our baseness, nor pride, nor...loneliness.<br /><br />A Christian is never alone...If you feel abandoned, it is because you do not want to look at that Christ who is passing so close to you...perhaps with the Cross."Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10451590537173713861noreply@blogger.com