Today's Mass Reading and Homily. Jesus cures "One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years."

 Saint Romanos Melodios (?-c 560) composer of hymns - Hymn “ To the newly baptized ”, str. 1, 4-5.19 (cf. SC 283, p. 343f.)

See, you are created anew, O newly baptized one! See, you are made new! Bend your back no longer beneath your sins. The cross is yours for support; lean upon it. Take it into your prayer, to your table, to your bed; take it everywhere as your title to glory (…) Shout at the demons: “With the cross I my hand I stand erect, holding dear our Resurrection.” - Glory to you, glory to you, for such was your good pleasure.

Prayer - Taken from the "Happy Catholic" Blog.

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers:

In it we ask, not only for the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired. 

This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things, but also in what order we should desire them.

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

Thomas Aquinas (/əˈkwaɪnəs/; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian[10][11] Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis.

Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska - Diary - Divine Mercy in my Soul - 140 - Second Part - Notebook 1.

Pure Love never errs.

It's light is strangely plentiful. 

It will not do anything that might displease God.

It is ingenious at doing what is more pleasing to God and no one will equal it.

It is happy when it can empty itself and burn like a pure offering.

The more it gives of itself, the happier it is.

But also, no one can sense dangers from afar as can love; it knows how to unmask and also  knows with whom it has to deal.

Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska - Divine Mercy in my Soul - Notebook 1 - 140 - Half the paragraph today. The other, out of Love, tomorrow.

 140 - Pure Love is capable of great deeds, and it is not broken by difficulty or adversity.

As it remains strong in the midst of great difficulties, so to, it perseveres in the toilsome and drab life of each day.

It knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great Love - Love, and always Love.

SAINT MARIA FAUSTINA KOWALSKA

A Bug at Rua das Romãzeiras in Cascais !

 

A Bug at Rua das Romãzeiras in Cascais, Portugal.

 

Stations of the Cross (Catholic) - By St Alphonsus Liguori.