“Where there is no obedience there is no virtue,
where there is no virtue there is no good,
where there is no good there is no love,
where there is no love, there is no God,
and where there is no God there is no Paradise.”
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
(a willet shorebird / Rosemary Beach, Fl / Julie Cook / 2019)
Recognition that lost periods of a life can never be returned can provoke
an intense desire to give completely to God what is yet remaining in a life.
The soul scarred by former sin is sometimes, after grace, the soul that will give without reserve.
It is not at all an exaggeration to affirm that great sinners often do become hidden saints.
Fr. Donald Haggerty
from Conversion
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Very sweet, Julie! I love the wisdom in those quotes and I love the hidden saints, too.
The Bible says in Luke, “Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven-as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”
I love it as well IB—that whole thought of sinner to saint—redemption and Grace…
How is the Major and Sheriff doing?
Thank you for asking Jim— I’m going over tomorrow— the Mayor is wild and the sheriff is holding his own— surgery set for November 1– All saints day ☺️
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