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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 17d
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 16m
“Let us be happy today because of those who are blessed, who see the face of God in the beatific vision, who did not follow any techniques to be happy but were given that happiness through being faithful disciples even in the face of persecution” -Fr Benedict Jonak
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 25m
“Regardless of where we may feel we’re at in this moment, we should remember that fulfilment in God is what we were created for, and is at the very heart of our desires and longings” -Fr Robert Gay
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 27m
“Had anyone else sat down on that mountain and saw that crowd, they may have said, “Wretched”, but not him. He sees them and he says: “Blessed.”” -Fr David Rocks on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-12)
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 31m
“Be like unto Christ Jesus, that's what it means to follow the Beatitudes. And you know what? You'll be happy when you do.” -Bishop Robert Barron
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 36m
“When you make God the center of your life it means that God is everything, not your own control. It means that in some ways you will be powerful and in other ways you will be altogether weak. That doesn't matter so much when you made God the center of your life.” -Bishop Robert Barron
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 14h
“The goal of our life is not to live on in the memories of others, but rather it is to live on in God’s loving presence with all the saints forever in heaven” -Fr Robert Verrill
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 14h
“The Beatitudes are the standards of Christian perfection. And Christian perfection is living life from God’s point of view—the view of heaven. The life of a saint.” -Mary Ortwein
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 14h
“God’s holiness, Jesus’ holiness, is so rich that even a single great saint, the greatest saint, isn’t enough to express all of it” -Fr Simon Gaine
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 14h
“Think about the saint you know. Let us not be so much carried away by imaginary names unknown to us.Think about the people who have impacted positively on your life and who irrespective of human weaknesses tried their best to identify with Christ while on earth.” -Fr. Lawrence Obilor
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 14h
“The only way that we are rendered unredeemable is when, through our free will, we decide to reject the unwavering and magnanimous mercy and compassion of God” -Fr. Daniel Kim, MM
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 14h
“To hope for the blessedness of heaven is not some psychological crutch for those too weak to look reality in the face, but an act of defiant hope in the face of the darkness of injustice in this world” -John Bergsma
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 14h
“The friendship of the saints in heaven is a purer friendship than our human friendship because it is not based on any need they have, except what we might call the need to allow their joy and love to overflow into this world.” -Fr Euan Marley
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 14h
“When we see God face-to-face, will we be surprised if we recognize our own friends and family in God’s face? We are made in the image and likeness of God, and as we grow in love, we become more like God.” -Sr. Nancy Connor, MM
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 15h
“Our ultimate goal is to become saints ourselves, and a great way to do that is to follow the footsteps of those who have gone before.” -Steven Marsh
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 22h
“Because if we know some people are with God, which we do, then we also know it is possible to be with God” -Fr Dominic Ryan
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 22h
“Today we are not so much celebrating what human beings have achieved as celebrating the fruit of divine providence and the inevitable triumph of God’s love for humanity” -Fr. John Patrick on the Solemnity of All Saints
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“Ordinary saints are the grout that holds our fragile world together. They fill in the cracks in our broken lives. They hold together the bricks that make up society.” -Fr. Dave Schwinghamer, MM
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“Holiness is being fully alive, as God created each thing uniquely to be. There are as many ways of being a saint as there are human beings.” -Fr Timothy Radcliffe
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“How fitting to reflect on how it is the...ordinary decisions, thoughts and actions that make saints who they are. If they had not proven themselves during the ordinary tasks of living...they most likely would not have been able to be faithful in times of great distress or trial.” -Rhegan Hyypio
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“Today’s feast is about celebrating the open invitation by the God-of-Communion to all of creation and all peoples of every nation, and language as participants in God’s Trinitarian process that promises fullness of life for all” -Sr. Ann Hayden, MM on the Solemnity of All Saints
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“This is what it means to be holy, in the fullest meaning of some very simple words: a saint is someone who, held in God’s loving gaze, comes to see God” -Fr Vivian Boland
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“We do not call people saints just because they are loving or wise, but because their love and wisdom is rooted in and the expression of the love and wisdom, the holiness of God” -Fr Martin Ganeri
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“We believe that Jesus Christ does make it possible that human beings can be better than we are and we believe that there are human beings, the saints, who demonstrate exactly what Christ has done” -Fr Dominic Ryan
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“Holiness is to do with the extent to which a person has been open to the transforming life of God, and is therefore included in the community of salvation which we call the Body of Christ” -Fr Fabian Radcliffe
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GatherClip • Bible Reflections @gatherclip.bsky.social · 23h
“The whole point of today’s celebration is not just an excuse for backward-looking nostalgia...It is a very real participation in the communion of saints, who are in a living and loving relationship with us in the very life of the Trinity.” -Fr Aelred Connelly on the Solemnity of All Saints