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Through the Blood of Jesus: When we pray for someone 'in the name of Jesus' or 'through the Blood of Jesus', it's as if fire descends from Heaven, as God's grace is poured upon the needy person.

God the Father loves each one of us with a passionate love, and holds us in His tender embrace

God the Father loves each one of us with a passionate love, and holds us in His tender embrace

God the Father loves each one of us with a passionate love, and holds us in His tender embrace

Whoever is willing to accept unavoidable humiliations in patience makes a 'space' amongst the crowd, so that God's grace can flow down to bathe and refresh and transform many more persons.

If we shrink from sacrifice, we should reflect on the truth, that everything we value on earth shall be surrendered at death; yet everything worthy of Heaven - people too - shall be found 'in Christ' in Eternity. Christ, today, can give us the grace to see life from the standpoint of eternity.

God is as pure as fire. He is active, holy, powerful and bright. It is he who lifts up a soul who has placed herself before him. Those tendrils of flame no longer burn, but act as 'touches' of sweetness in a divine embrace.

A prayer for someone far from God can help them be drawn out of the abyss of sin, by God's grace, if they are willing to respond

In private prayer we can arise in spirit to be united with the Communion of Saints in Heaven in praise of the Father, through Christ; and we can draw down grace, through Christ, upon a needy person.

In private prayer we can arise in spirit to be united with the Communion of Saints in Heaven in praise of the Father, through Christ; and we can draw down grace, through Christ, upon a needy person.

When we forgive someone for a specific deed, God's grace is at work in us. His forgiveness flows through us, as water flows through a tap in Lourdes. Yet when we are so full of charity that love and forgiveness 'flow out' of us upon every thought and deed we are Godlike; for His forgiveness is like the water that pours unceasingly down a mountainside.

When someone prays in rapt attention to God, and is even lifted 'high' by Him in contemplation, it's as if she holds aside a curtain which had shut out the light of Heaven. She has made it possible - by God's grace - for His graces to pour down upon earth upon other people.

In His grace and beauty, God is like a leaping creature of the plains, like a gazelle: exquisite to look upon, graceful in every act and movement, swift to respond to the least cry or disturbance, yet often seeming motionless and at peace.

If we hope to be saved, the importance of Baptism cannot be exaggerated. It is the means chosen by God by which a person's state becomes glorious. Sin is banished, and Divine Life is given, life which enables that person to live in union with God, and in the hope of attaining Heaven, by the grace of Christ.

When a soul is almost 'full' of God's grace (like a flooded room) everything and everyone in that person's life is therefore 'touched' by God, as well as that person who opened the 'door'.

If I remain always at the foot of the cross, I'll remember that all the graces I now enjoy were won through Christ's lonely torment on Calvary. How can I then become proud or self-satisfied?

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 'flight' of a soul in prayer, in Divine grace and sweetness, is like the soaring of a swallow, or the swift movement of a dolphin, or a shark gracefully circling, or a Dove descending in simplicity and peace.

The 'flight' of a soul in prayer, in Divine grace and sweetness, is like the soaring of a swallow, or the swift movement of a dolphin, or a shark gracefully circling, or a Dove descending in simplicity and peace.

Christ can see the life of each one of us, from start to finish. Through His omniscience as God, He sees exactly what use we will make of our free-will, and His gifts and graces. He sees the good choices and the bad, and sees all of our reactions to His invitations and interventions. He sees who will reach sanctity.