Summer 2012 - The Mill Hill Missionaries

Summer 2012 Advocate:Layout 1 19/07/2012 12:14 Page 8no feet but yours. Yours are the eyesthrough which his compassion looks outon the world; Yours are the feet withwhich he can go about doing good;Yours are the hands with which he is tobless us now”.- St. Teresa of Avila.❒ ❒ ❒“Our lives must be woven around the Eucharist... fix your eyes on Him Who is thelight; bring your hearts close to His DivineHeart; ask Him to grant you the grace ofknowing Him, the love of loving Him, thecourage to serve Him. Seek Him fervently”.- Mother Teresa of Calcutta.❒ ❒ ❒“At no other time is Our Lord more lovingand more tender than when he, as itwere, humbles himself and comes to us inthe form of food that he may enter our souland enter into intimate union with us. Ifyou are asked why you go to Communionso often say it is to learn to love God, to bepurified from your imperfections, deliveredfrom you miseries, consoled in your troublesand strengthened in your weakness’.- St. Francis de Sales: Introduction tothe Devout Life. pps. 83, 84.❒ ❒ ❒“How beautiful is the Mass,when celebrated in a cathedral filledlike ours on Sundays, or whencelebrated simply in village chapelswith people full of faith,who know that Jesus is gatheringtogether all thatwe bring him from the week:sorrows, failures, hopes, plans,joys, sadness, pain!……United to the sacrifice presenton the altar,people are made Godlikeand now leaveto keep on working,to keep on struggling,to keep on suffering,but ever united with the Eternal Priest,who remains present in the Eucharistso that we can meet himnext Sunday also”.- Oscar Romero : The Violence of Love❒ ❒ ❒“Prayer is the gaze of faith fixed onJesus... His gaze purifies our hearts; thelight of his countenence illumines the eyesof our hearts, and teaches us to see everythingin the light of his truth and compassionfor all people”.- Catechism of the Catholic Church❒ ❒ ❒“Out of his infinite glory, may God giveyou the power for your hidden self to growstrong, so that Christ may live in your heartthrough faith. Then, planted in love andbuilt on love, you will with all the saintshave strength to grasp the length andbreadth, the height and depth; until, knowingthe love of Christ, which is beyond allknowledge, you are filled with the utterfullness of God. Glory be to him whosepower working in us, can do infinitely morethan we can ask or imagine; glory be to himfrom generation to generation in the churchand in Christ Jesus for ever and ever.Amen”.- St. Paul’s Letter to Ephesians 3:14-217