Spiritual Thoughts for the week

July 4th

Match these quotable quotes with who said them:

1. "Most cradle Catholics have gone through, or need to go through, a second conversion which binds them with a more mature love and obedience to the Church."
2. "Lord, You have created us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."
3. "After my death, I will send a shower of roses."
4. "The gate is heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it."
5. "Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave."

a) St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
b) Dorothy Day
c) G.K. Chesterton
d) St. Therese of Lisieux
e) St. Augustine
1) b; 2) e; 3) d; 4) a; 5) c
(from Our Sunday Visitor)

SAINT OF THE WEEK

SS. Aquila and Priscilla (July 8th) are a married couple who accompanied St. Paul on some of his missionary journeys. They are mentioned in Acts 18, where we learn that they were Jews who had left their home in Rome after the expulsion of all the Jews by Emperor Claudius. They moved to Corinth, where they practiced the trade of tentmaking, the same trade as St. Paul. Paul lived and worked with them at this trade for a time, also preaching the Gospel in Corinth. Priscilla and Aquila accompanied Paul when he left Corinth for Syria, and Acts 18:23-28 recounts how they assisted him in explaining the truth of the Gospel to those they encountered in the synagogues. This dedicated couple illustrates what St. Josemaria Escriva said about Christian marriage, regarding how Christ fills the souls of husband and wife and invites them to follow him. "He transforms their whole married life into an occasion for God's presence on earth." (Christ is Passing By)