Friday, November 27, 2009

Temptation



“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”



--Thomas Merton

Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal


"O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

--Paris, 1830

Saint Catherine Laboure, pray for us.

Just being


"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness."


--Thomas Merton