Journeying with the Founder Day #118

Our Lady, in the moment when she sees her Son transfixed and crucified, receives all the crucifiers as her children. Behold the heroic motherhood and the heroic love of Mary. (Charity)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #117

If we wish to have faith, we have to ask the Lord for it. We have to grow in faith and, above all, to insistently ask the Lord for that faith: Lord, increase our faith – Domine, adauge nobis fidem (Lk. 17:6)—because only if we have a faith capable of moving mountains can we carry out the apostolate of faith. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #116

Behold the four essential conditions necessary for actualizing our apostolate of faith: witness, experience offered to others, prophetic spirit, and the courage of martyrdom.

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Journeying with the Founder Day #115

In order to attain our ideal, we need prophets and martyrs. We need prophets, who have the courage to look beyond their own interests, their egos, and their own personalities; and martyrs, who sacrifice and even immolate themselves, martyrs who are ready to die with Christ, Prophet and Martyr. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #114

It is not enough to speak of faith; others have to see us manifest our faith as a reality that we live. Our witness of faith must surface in the way we speak, act, judge and deal with others. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #113

We must be witnesses of faith for others; it is necessary that we know how to be experiences of faith for others. These are two conditions that we easily intuit. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #112

We must spread the faith, be apostles of faith, which today is especially both important and difficult. It is so important because it is so difficult and, unfortunately, it is much more difficult because it is so important. (The Theological Community)

Journeying with the Founder Day #112

Journeying with the Founder Day #111

The act of faith must teach us to discover the divine and the sacred in my brother, in my sister, in my roommate, and in the person who works with me in the apostolate. Each brother, each sister is really a brother and a sister in Christ and is, therefore, a partaker of the sacredness of Christ. To discover the sacred, to be able to see the persons that are around us as a sacred reality: this is the spirit of faith. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #110

Let God act; He knows more than we do. Ours has to be an act of unconditional faith: Lord, I want what You want, because You want it, how and when You want it. This must be our attitude of faith. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #109

The Church has always been surrounded by enormous difficulties, and the most paradoxical thing is this—that faith always wins but through a series of uninterrupted defeats. She loses the battles and wins the war. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #108

We must give of ourselves for the Gospel and have the courage to give all on all levels: personal, collective, communal, Institute, and Pro Sanctity Movement. This is the only way we can realize the community of faith. (The Theological Community)

Journeying with the Founder Day #108

Journeying with the Founder Day #107

When we give ourselves to Christ, we have to give ourselves completely; when we accept an ideal, we have to accept it completely, no matter what the cost may be. Just as Christ died on a cross, as Peter died on a cross, as Paul died beheaded, we, too, should immolate ourselves for this ideal. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #106

Every community and all of our Pro Sanctity Centers should become communities of faith, of witness, and an experience of the divine. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #105

The community of faith becomes like an altar. When praying together, it is a praying community which raises to God adoration, praise, thanksgiving, requests, and reparation in a communitarian form in the spirit of faith. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #104

Within a community of charismatic faith, there is peace, serenity, joy, patience, charity, humility, and even heroism, which—rather than natural fruits—are all graces that are given by the Holy Spirit to the soul through the community. (The Theological Community)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #103

When we speak of the universal call to holiness and when we speak of the utopia of the saints, we are speaking about the core content of the Church that we accept by faith and around which we build our life. (The Theological Community)

Journeying with the Founder Day #103

Journeying with the Founder Day #102

When we speak of a community of faith, we speak about a community that participates in the Trinitarian life by having in its bosom the reality of the Trinitarian life that is selfgiving, that is love, and that is spirit. Therefore a community completely supernatural is that in which natural tendencies and instincts are overcome. (The Theological Community)

Journeying with the Founder Day #102

Journeying with the Founder Day #101

If our Lady had the absolute fullness of grace, she must have had the absolute fullness of love at the same time. No person could have loved God more than she did. (Charity)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #100

If we want to become holy, let us not forget that the cross is the basic element. The cross must be dealt with and embraced out of love for Christ because it would be meaningless without love. (Charity)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #99

Love that lets itself ‘be consumed’ by others springs from the love of Christ ‘eaten’, love toward Jesus that is poured out toward our brothers and sisters, supernatural love towards God that becomes supernatural love towards others. (Charity)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #98

The only way to do good to others and to the world, to our little world, is to become holy. (Charity)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #97

Let us not forget, my daughters, that perfection is acquired through effort and sacrifice. The only way the Lord chose for our redemption has been the royal way of the cross- via regia sanctae crucis. Without the cross we neither reach paradise nor become holy. (Charity)

Journeying with the Founder Day #97

Journeying with the Founder Day #96

Jesus, from the height of the Cross where the maximum degree of injustice was occurring, responded to the lack of charity by saying to the Father, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing” (Lk 23:34). Behold the lesson of charity towards one’s neighbor. We have to imitate Jesus’ generosity. Until we succeed in trampling underfoot our selfishness, our pride, our instinctiveness, and our lack of supernatural spirit, we will never reach such delicacy of charity. (Charity)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #95

Sentimental instincts lead us to be charitable towards people whom we like and less than charitable toward those we don’t. Such “charity” is not governed by God’s thought, in the spirit of perfection, but according to those mysterious waves that I don’t know how to define, magnetic or electrical, of liking others or not liking them. In this case, if there is empathy between the two, the person is pleasant and everything she does is fine. If instead there is no empathy between the two, even if the other has the power to make gold, everything
she does is always bad. The victory over this instinctive sense of sympathy and antipathy is necessary and comes through the inner principle of interiority, the supernatural spirit that leads us one direction or another. (Charity)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #94

We are not born holy, nor do we become holy without much good will in us… Holiness does not spontaneously form itself in us even if we reach the age of 180 or even 600 years like Methuselah! We will be always imperfect if we do not exercise self-control and self-mastery. (Charity)

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Journeying with the Founder Day #93

Why are we reactive, why do we lack charity, mistreat others, and answer them uncharitably? It is because we do not overcome our pride and our selfishness; we do not control ourselves. So we need to form our wills; the more we form ourselves, the more we will be able to master ourselves and practice charity. We stress the importance of the formation of the will, self-mastery, and the formation of one’s own character because if we let ourselves go, our nerves and natural instincts take over. (Charity)

Journeying with the Founder Day #93