Gospel Scenes and Meditations

Gospel Scenes and Meditations

023

The author of the Imitation said with great acuteness that "the fewer there be who follow the way to heaven, the harder that way is to find"—and, he might have added, the harder to follow.  Albert Jay Nock, "A Cultural Forecast," On Doing the Right Thing and other essays, 1928, p. 92

So I think that one will not find salvation by looking for it, but only by trying to imitate Noriko Hirayama in the particular events of one's life.

022

Manual Entry, lettera 22 and 32 comparison

021

If suffering in purgatory brings us closer to heaven, so should suffering on earth.

020

Love of neighbor is love of God's creation.

019

Since God knows us better than we know ourselves, we should not fear what he asks of us.

018

We are examples, though not always good examples, of something Great.