C’est dans la silence et le repos que sera votre salut, C’est dans le calme et la confiance que sera votre force.

FAMILLE MONASTIQUE DE BETHLEEM, DE L’ASSOMPTION DE LA VIERGE ET DE SAINT BRUNO

Selected readings from ‘The Imitation of Christ‘, by Thomas a Kempis, written by a Brother and compiled by Canons, intended for the Religious Life.The work is a manual of devotion intended to assist the soul with its pursuit of holiness and communion with God. Its sentences are statements, not arguments, and are pitched in the highest key of Christian experience. Behind and within all its reflections runs the counsel of self-renunciation.

The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis, is a widely read Christian spiritual book. It was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418;

Selected readings from ‘The Imitation of Christ‘

It was written by a Brother and compiled by Canons, intended for the Religious Life.The work is a manual of devotion intended to assist the soul with its pursuit of holiness and communion with God. Its sentences are statements, not arguments, and are pitched in the highest key of Christian experience. Behind and within all its reflections runs the counsel of self-renunciation.

The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis, is a widely read Christian spiritual book. It was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418; several other authors have been proposed, but Kempis’ authorship is now generally accepted.is a writing of the mysticist German-Dutch school of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity. Protestants and Roman Catholics alike join in giving it praise. The Jesuits give it an official place among their “exercises”. John Wesley and John Newton listed it among the works that influenced them at their conversion. General Gordon carried it with him to the battlefield. It is said Pope John Paul I was reading a copy when he died. And I always keep a copy by in my cell where I sleep. God bless you all.

Selected readings from ‘The Imitation of Christ‘, by Thomas a Kempis

Reflections from Fr. Tom Rosica, CSB on Ash Wednesday 2008. This the first in a series of reflections from Salt and Light Television.

Ave Maria! This song, In the Breaking of the Bread, sung by Fr. Maximilian Dean and Michael Grogan puts into music today’s Gospel reading of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and how the risen Lord appeared to them, but they did not recognize Him until the breaking of the bread, a good meditation on finding Jesus today in the Eucharist.
Words and Music by Michael P. Ward.

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RomanticCatholic.com Presents:”A little Background on the Holy Rosary” it show where it came from and the great benefits of this devotion, narrated by The Mary Foundation

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