February 2012
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'A Day Without Yesterday': Georges Lemaitre & the... →
joecatholic:
In January 1933, the Belgian mathematician and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre traveled with Albert Einstein to California for a series of seminars. After the Belgian detailed his Big Bang theory, Einstein stood up applauded, and said, “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened.”
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“Pope Benedict XVI said fasting is “a spiritual arm to do battle against every possible disordered attachment to ourselves”. This statement alone can be a subject of many hours of meditation. But the he did not stop there. He further commented that fasting is a “therapy to heal all that prevents [us] from conformity to the will of God”, and “assists us to mortify our egoism and open our...
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Wherever the Catholic sun does shine, There’s music, laughter and good red wine.
– Hillaire Belloc (via cdnowak)
At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
(via ancilladomini)
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Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude....
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What a wonder is your Mother! The Lord entered her, and became a Servant; the...
– St Ephraem the Syrian (via catholic-inspiration)
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St. Faustina, Pray for us!
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"The greatest love story of all time is contained...
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