Fr. Peter J. Gruber
@FrPeterGruber
A priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Pittsburgh.
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St. Thérèse’s Prayer to St. Cecilia Cecilia, lend to me thy melody most sweet: How many souls would I convert to Jesus now. I fain would die, like thee, to win them to His feet; For him give all my tears, my blood. Oh, help me thou! Pray for me that I gain, on this our…
“We attain to heaven by using this world well, though it is to pass away; we perfect our nature, not by undoing it, but by adding to it what is more than nature, and directing it towards aims higher than its own.” -St. John Henry Newman
The Problem with Bowing to the Priest at Mass Not every reverent gesture is actually traditional open.substack.com/pub/patrickmad…
“When the immolation and the bitterness come for you, think how close Mary is to that cross, and turn your eyes to her, and in her eyes you will find strength, consolation, and peace.” -Archbishop Luis Martínez, The Priest: Mystery of Love
“The memory of my faults humiliated me and prompts me never to rely on my own strength, which is nothing but weakness, but this memory speaks to me even more of mercy and love.” -St. Therese, from a letter to seminarian Maurice
"Fear is a greater evil that the evil itself." -St. Francis de Sales
“Since Our Lord dwells in our souls, His prayer is ours.” -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
“Forward progress is never assured. The urge to turn back persists deep within. Apparent success must never seduce us into thinking we are beyond temptation's reach. As Newman, who knew a thing or two about it, once remarked in a rousing, unsettling sermon: ‘to be at ease, is to…
“The more one is weak, without desires and without virtues, the more one is suited for the operations of God’s consuming and transforming love.” -St. Therese, from a letter to seminarian Maurice
“Every sorrow, every pain, every inconvenience, every discomfort is a sharing in the death of the Lord Jesus.” -Fr. Mark Gruber, Thanksgiving and Praise, 116
“We are priests because we love, and because Jesus asked us the question of love and we ourselves gave Peter’s response of love, he puts in our consecrated hands and in our priestly hearts his precious treasure of souls.” -Archbishop Luis Martínez, The Priest: Mystery of Love
“Few priests like verbal or vocal prayers. That is a fact. This is not because good priests are unprayerful. But because their prayers are sighs, their aspirations are inspirations. They have no sense of shouting to God across an abyss. Always conscious of their mission, they…
Step 1: Change name to John Step 2: Move to Lateran region Step 3: Live life of heroic sanctity Step 4: Canonized as "St. John Lateran" Hack the system.
“This yoke to which we have been joined, is easy and its burden light, because Christ carries the greater load. He does the greater work by far. He not only carries the greater weight of the burden beyond our strength, but he even carries the burden of our very selves.” -Fr. Mark…
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