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Prayer is nothing else but union with God. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can ever pull apart. This union of God with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a happiness beyond understanding.
— Saint John Vianney
"The longer you stay away from Communion, the more your soul will become weak, and in the end you will become dangerously indifferent."
— St John Bosco (via catholic-inspiration)
Dust to Dust
“When [God] says to man, ‘You are dust and to dust you shall return!’ together with the just punishment he also intends to announce a path of salvation, which will travel through the earth, through that ‘dust,’ that ‘flesh’ that will be assumed by the Word.” “It is in accord with this salvific perspective that the verse of Genesis is taken up by the Ash Wednesday liturgy: as an invitation to penance, to humility and to an awareness of our mortal condition, but not to end up in desperation, but rather to welcome, precisely in this mortality of ours, God’s unthinkable nearness, which, beyond death, opens the passage to the resurrection, to paradise finally rediscovered,”
—from the Holy Father’s Ash Wednesday homily, 2012
