Choosing to stay and remain with the Lord

“it's a time for honesty, it's time for spiritual truth here. Whom do you serve? Who or what is the center of gravity? And if it's not the Lord, we got a problem.”

“it’s not whether one succeeds in following Christ or not...Rather it’s whether one is willing to try. And if one is willing to try, then ultimately it’s the grace Christ shares with us through his salvific death that makes it possible for us to be successful”

“Does this Sacrament of Jesus’ Sacrifice draw us to repent of our sins, which have helped bring about Jesus’ Death?”

“for compassion to be effective it needs to be collective”

“It doesn’t matter that we cannot comprehend the mystery of the Eucharist; all will become clear in due time. It does matter that we acknowledge the reality of the invitation it offers us.”

“We may profess faith in the crucified Christ with our lips but in our hearts we want him to be the king who gives us what we want rather than what we truly need”

“Are we living as true disciples committed to Jesus, grounded in his words and recognizing his sovereignty in our lives?”

“Are you with the Eucharistic Christ or not? Do you accept this teaching or not? It's always been a standing or falling point in the history of the Church.”

“Jesus is asking too much in asking them to say 'yes'”

“Who do you think Jesus is and therefore what effect do you think his words have? If he is who he says he is, then his words can have this absolutely transformative effect.”

“we get access to the spiritual life of God precisely through the flesh, through the body of this Jesus”

“Christianity has to do with him, with Jesus. Not his teaching, primarily, but with him.”

“Faith is not necessarily “where” it is expressed but in “whom” it is expressed”

“18 years ago, we chose to serve the Lord through our marriage. We may not have truly realized the magnitude of the decision at the time, but we followed the Holy Spirit and chose Him over the world.”

“People don’t really get it, but the Eucharist is the New Covenant, and therefore, if you are not participating in the Eucharist, you are not fully partaking of the New Covenant”

“The soul begins to live because it adheres to the Word of God, to the person of Christ”

“As we live out our own faith, we often feel offended, but if we examine our feelings we can realize that these are mainly things that offend our pride”

“The temptation is always to make ourselves a comfortable god who will bolster our own ideas; the challenge and the offer of the gospel is to follow the living, disturbing God of life into a future we cannot control”

“The Word of God today affirms that choice is at the very root of our lives. Our choices need to be seen in the light of God’s gracious choice to love us.”

“We may be led into ways and paths that we know not...but in the end we know that once we have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, accepting his challenge is the only thing we can do”

“What Christ commands us to do, he commands us to do for our own good. Ignoring the teachings of Jesus is not some clever way of avoiding an obligation. It is working against our own self-interest.”

“Biblical Christianity is about conforming ourselves to the Son of God. What the Church Fathers called 'deification'”

“Friends, the Eucharist is a hard teaching. Always has been, always will be.”