littleness

20. Childlike in Heart

Little Sisters Hackney — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:07:01 +0000

Tre fontane Grotto chapel

Childlike in Heart, you will receive the little infant Jesus of the Manger from the Virgin Mary his Mother

This will be the crowning point. read more »

From Aubonne in Switzerland

Little Sisters Hackney — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:04:50 +0000

Little sister Maria Hedwig who is Austrian, writes from her community in Aubonne near Geneva: read more »

Being reduced to nothing

JC Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:20 +0000

Being reduced to nothing is the most powerful means we have of uniting ourselves to Jesus and of doing good to others. read more »

When we love

JC Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:20 +0000

When we love, we are so small, so humble before the one we love. We feel so mean and so poor finding the one we love so perfect and so beautiful. read more »

Have trust, come close to me!

JC Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:20 +0000

By becoming such a small and gentle child, he cries out to us: Have trust, come close to me! Do not be afraid of me, do not fear. read more »

God who is infinite, all powerful, has become human

JC Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:20 +0000

God who is infinite, all powerful, has become human, the least of human beings. My way is always to seek the lowest place, to be as little as my Master, to walk with him step by step as a faithful disciple. My way is to live with my God who lived this way all his life and who has given me such an example from his very birth. read more »

God so completely took the lowest place

JC Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:19 +0000

When he came on earth, God so completely took the lowest place, that no one has ever been able to take it from Him. read more »

The Incarnation has its source

JC Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:19 +0000

The Incarnation has its source in the goodness of God, but the most wonderful of all, is the infinite humility that this mystery contains. read more »

His whole life long he did nothing but go down

JC Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:19 +0000

His whole life long he did nothing but go down. He went down in becoming flesh, he went down in becoming a baby, went down in obeying, went down in becoming poor, rejected, persecuted, crucified, in always taking the lowest place. read more »

This is the path of union

JC Administrator — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:30:07 +0000

If I were able, but I am not, to do otherwise than to loose myself totally in union with God’s divine will, I would want to choose for myself complete lack of success and perpetual solitude and failure in everything. This is the path of union with the lowliness and the cross of our Beloved God, which has always seemed to me desirable above all other ways. read more »