In this world,
the Christian life is a time of preparation
for the ultimate meeting with the Lord.

 
Pope Francis

God has kept things hidden
so that we may keep watch,
each of us thinking that Christ will come
in our own day.

 
St. Ephraem, 4th century

Jesus is our strength;
he gives himself to us and we give ourselves to him.

 
John the Serene of Naples, 6th century

Jesus treated sinners with a kindness and affection
that caused some to be shocked, others scandalized,
and still others, to hope for God’s mercy.
And so, he calls us to be gentle and humble of heart.

 
St. John Bosco, 19th century

Let us do everything
in the knowledge that God is dwelling within us,
so that we may be his temples
and he may be God within us.

 
St. Ignatius of Antioch, 1st century

Come to Christ, where all is love.

 
St. Pio of Pietrelcina, 20th century

Christ’s perfect obedience to the Father’s will
redeemed man’s first and continuing disobedience
to that will.

 
Servant of God, Fr. Walter Ciszek, 20th century

Christ enters so that he might eat with us and we with him.
He ever refreshes us by the light of his presence
in so far as we progress in our devotion to
and longing for the things of heaven. 

 
St. Bede the Venerable, 8th century