“To Love God is something greater than to know Him.”- Saint Thomas Aquinas

“To Love God is something greater than to know Him”- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Obedience to Love

“It’s not hard to obey when we love the One whom we obey”- Saint Ignatius of Loyola

God doesn’t ask us to be successful; He only asks that we be Faithful.- Saint Francis of Assisi

Trust God. Trust Love. Forever.- Owen Joseph/ Shannan Suzzette

“I Love YOU!”

I Love You, O, my God, and my only desire is to Love You until the last breath of my life. I Love You, O my infinitely lovable God, and I would rather die Loving You, than live without Loving You. I Love You, Lord, and the only grace I ask is to Love You eternally….my God, if my tongue cannot say in every moment that I Love You, I want my Heart to repeat it to You as often as I draw breath. – Saint John Vianney

Saint John Vianney pray for us. Amen.

God’s Will be done in name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Saint Ignatius: The Ignatian Vision Of Life, Work, and Love: God Loves Us and Awaits Our Response To His Love – David L. Fleming, SJ, “What is Ignatian Spirituality?”

God who loves us creates us and wants to share life with us forever. Our love response takes shape in our praise and honor and service of the God of our life. 

All the things in this world are also created because of God’s love and they become a context of gifts, presented to us so that we can know God more easily and make a return of love more readily. 

As a result, we show reverence for all the gifts of creation and collaborate with God in using them so that by being good stewards we develop as loving persons in our care of God’s world and its development. But if we abuse any of these gifts of creation or, on the contrary, take them as the center of our lives, we break our relationship with God and hinder our growth as loving persons. 

In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in balance before all created gifts insofar as we have a choice and are not bound by some responsibility. We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or failure, a long life or a short one. For everything has the potential of calling forth in us a more loving response to our life forever with God. 

Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads God’s deepening life in me. 

Ignatius’s first principle is that all creation is a gift, coming from God and leading toward God. Furthermore, “all things in this world are…presented to us so that we can know God more easily and make a return of love more readily.” This means that God is in this creation. The choices  we make in our daily life in this world push us away from God or draw us closer to Him. Ignatius sees God as present, not remote or detached. He is involved in the details of our life. Our daily lives in this world matter. 

“the definition of a woman is best explained through the eyes and heart of the man who has always loved her and will always love her til the end of time. for only he knows the depths of her whole heart and the passions of her whole soul as reflected through his heart and soul and the eternal love, humility, and devotion they share in the Sacred Heart of God between them as husband and wife.One Flesh.”-Owen Joseph/Shannan Suzzette “only Love makes us who we were meant to be. One Flesh.”-Owen Joseph/Shannan Suzzette “we endure because we Love. we Love because we endure.One Flesh.”-Owen Joseph/Shannan Suzzette “devoted til the end of all time as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. One Flesh.”-Owen Joseph/Shannan Suzzette

“the definition of a woman is best explained through the eyes and heart of the man who has always loved her and will always love her til the end of time. for only he knows the depths of her whole heart and the passions of her whole soul as reflected through his heart and soul and the eternal love, humility, and devotion they share in the Sacred Heart of God between them as husband and wife. One Flesh.” -Owen Joseph/Shannan Suzzette

“only Love makes us who we were meant to be. One Flesh.” -Owen Joseph/Shannan Suzzette

“we endure because we Love. we Love because we endure. One Flesh.” -Owen Joseph/Shannan Suzzette

“devoted til the end of all time as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. One Flesh.”- Owen Joseph/Shannan Suzzette