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To discover God's holiness is to see the depths of our selfishness, and to realise our need of rescue, and transformation by God's power.

To discover God's holiness is to see the depths of our selfishness, and to realise our need of rescue, and transformation by God's power.

At the Mass, like a fisherman, Jesus draws up into His Kingdom those who love Him

At the Mass, like a fisherman, Jesus draws up into His Kingdom those who love Him

At the Mass, like a fisherman, Jesus draws up into His Kingdom those who love Him

Those who have been blind to God's goodness and lukewarm about practicing the virtues will find, in Purgatory, the contrast between their selfishness and God's goodness.

The life of peace and grace cannot be tasted by one who refuses to discard his selfish desires. Thus laden, he cannot enter humbly within his own soul.

One who says truthfully to God, in prayer, 'I am not fit to approach you', speaks truth. Such humility brings down the 'walls' of selfishness, and opens the way to God!

Our soul is like a cave hidden deep within the earth. Its walls are of solid 'rock' which is selfishness. Faith makes a way 'up'.

One who 'empties' herself, for God's sake, of selfish ambitions, can hold up and offer Christ, and the great glory of His Sacrifice, like a trophy, to the Father.

By confession of my weakness and selfish hopes, it is as though I open a high window within my soul. Light pours within.

God loves, as His Creation, the whole of the natural world: bright oceans teaming with life, with whales' waterspouts, and waves glinting in the sunlight, as shoals of fish circle underwater. Flocks of birds soar through the bright sky in the sweet, breezy air, and His glory shines over all. God delights in our love for Him even more than He delights in His Creation.

Careless or Selfish Thoughts: Satan can drag us down to danger, by our carelessness, as when an enemy catches hold of flapping garments.

Satan can use our careless or selfish thoughts to pull us down into sin and darkness, as when an enemy catches hold of someone's flapping garments.

Satan can use our careless or selfish thoughts to pull us down into sin and darkness, as when an enemy catches hold of someone's flapping garments.

What does the 'eternity' of hell or heaven mean? It means 'captured unchangeably', whether in selfishness or a state of grace; either being held eternally without God, by the free choices of an individual soul, or being held forever in friendship with God, to the degree to which the soul enjoyed at the moment of death. As a fly, suddenly imprisoned by a drop of amber, is held 'forever' in the state it was in when the liquid fell upon it, so the soul retains forever its state at the moment of death - even though those held in God's friendship can undergo some purification.

The idols or 'golden calves' which many people worship today, are their own selfish opinions, often contrary to the Church's teachings, their lack of reverence towards God, their neglect of penance and prayer, and the neglect of the ordinary duties of their state of life.

Someone who speaks about Mount Everest is worth believing if we know that he has followed the right path. Someone who speaks about God and Heaven is worth believing if he or she has evidently followed the right path: by faith in Christ, love for God and neighbour, self-denial in order to do God's Will, and the surrender of selfish ambitions.

Those in the Church who are proud or ambitious are like fish which dart about excitedly and travel far but are in danger from larger fish. Humble people who are faithful to their duties without noise or ostentation resemble those lowly creatures, outwardly dull, who live more safely on the ocean floor and also fulfil their purpose.

Someone who searches avidly for new devotions is like a fish which searches for food, day after day, on the Barrier Reef. We need spiritual 'food', but also to make time for our everyday duties, and for care of our neighbour.