Sunday Snippets

Sunday Snippets-A Catholic Carnival is a forum wherein Catholic bloggers are invited to share their posts with others. Here is a page from my own virtual book of days, A Trail Of Flowers, originally posted last Sunday: it is entitled Reward.  May you all have a lovely week filled with the priceless reward of God's grace.

Faith

“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”

--Corazon Aquino

Love is...

“Love is…
something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out.
You cannot touch the clouds, you know…
but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are
to have it after a hot day.
You cannot touch love either…
but you feel the sweetness that it pours
into everything.”
--Anne Sullivan

Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ

“Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. This is not just a fable or a nice story. It is true. If we abandon ourselves to God and forget ourselves, we see it sometimes, and we see it maybe frequently. God shows Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events. It becomes very obvious that He is everywhere and in everything and we cannot be without Him. It's impossible. It's simply impossible. The only thing is that we don't see it."

--Thomas Merton

Every moment

“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”

--Thomas Merton

Patience

"Patience is the art of hoping.”

--Marquis de Vauvenargues

Feast of Saint Dominic

"You are my companion and must walk with me. If we hold together, no earthly power can withstand us."
--words of Saint Dominic addressed to Saint Francis of Assisi upon their first meeting.
Saint Dominic and Saint Francis, pray for us.