by edaday | Apr 8, 2014 | Mission Matters, Praying with Fr. Querbes
You must take time to relax and think. Trust not your imagination, but your conscience and this in the gentle presence of God. In this you will find comfort for it will provide two satisfying answers: I do not want to offend God and I work for God alone. Do not...
by Karen Cutler | Feb 25, 2014 | Praying with Fr. Querbes
“Come poor sinners—you who despair and lose confidence in God because of your past mistakes…You are those who need the remedies of the Great Physician, and I will be only happy to minister to you His consolations.” Fr. Querbes in The Mary-Hearted...
by Karen Cutler | Feb 25, 2014 | Praying with Fr. Querbes
“O Mary, I consecrate to you this first effort of my ministry and under your patronage do I make this beginning.” Fr. Querbes, “Devotion to Mary” (1817) in The Mary-Hearted Catechist, p. 16. Prayer Loving God, we pray that your Church may always remain...
by Karen Cutler | Feb 25, 2014 | Praying with Fr. Querbes
“The singing of canticles…has always been one of the most precious means used to affirm and extend the Reign of God in souls. Words accessible to all…are easily memorized and are repeated with pleasure.” DQ 15 1.68 Prayer Loving God, you lift us out of the...
by Karen Cutler | Feb 25, 2014 | Praying with Fr. Querbes
“Human beings, without their knowing it, are almost always instruments of Providence.” DQ 420 7.31 Prayer Loving God, our lives belong to you. You guide our every action, word and thought. Prompt our thoughts, our words and our actions with your divine...
by Karen Cutler | Feb 25, 2014 | Praying with Fr. Querbes
“Through the holy exercise of the presence of God and for the contemplation of the mysteries of the life and death of Jesus…the Viatorian will enliven and vivify his faith. I consider these circumstances to be a means by which God manifests his will to...
