“My Son is so Beautiful,” Our Lady, said to me,”His Heart is Always full of Love and Mercy. Trust Him. Always do whatever He tells you. He Loves you. He Always Loves You.”-Mother MARY, pray for us! JESUS, I Trust in You! Saint JOSEPH, pray for us!

Obedience to Love: “It’s not hard to obey when we Love the One whom we obey.”-Saint Ignatius of Loyola

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“The more You Love someone, the more You Believe in them”- Mother MARY Angelica

“Only Love is Real. Only Love is Forever. Only Love is God dwelling in us.”- Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./Shannan Suzzette Taylor

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“when you love someone with your whole heart it makes you become the best of what God intended you to be…held joyful, faithful, peaceful, and radiant in His Love til the end of all time. One Flesh Forever, in time and in eternity.” -Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./Shannan Suzzette Taylor

“when you love someone with your whole heart it makes you become the best of what God intended you to be…held joyful, faithful, peaceful, and radiant in His Love til the end of all time. One Flesh Forever, in time and in eternity.” -Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./Shannan Suzzette Taylor

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Father Robert Barron on Catholicism: A Journey Into The Heart Of The Faith “Catholicism is God’s Great YES! to humanity saying, “I want to share My Divine Life with You” -What is the Catholicism? A 2,000 living tradition? A worldview? A way of life? A relationship? A mystery? In Catholicism Father Robert Barron examines all these questions and more, seeking to capture the body, heart and mind of the Catholic faith. Starting from the essential foundation of Jesus Christ’s incarnation, life, and teaching, Father Barron moves through the defining elements of Catholicism — from sacraments, worship, and prayer, to Mary, the Apostles, and Saints, to grace, salvation, heaven, and hell — using his distinct and dynamic grasp of art, literature, architecture, personal stories, Scripture, theology, philosophy, and history to present the Church to the world. Paired with his documentary film series of the same title, Catholicism is an intimate journey, capturing “The Catholic Thing” in all its depth and beauty. Eclectic, unique, and inspiring, Father Barron brings the faith to life for a new generation, in a style that is both faithful to timeless truths, while simultaneously speaking in the language of contemporary life.

What is the Catholicism? A 2,000 living tradition? A worldview? A way of life? A relationship? A mystery? In Catholicism Father Robert Barron examines all these questions and more, seeking to capture the body, heart and mind of the Catholic faith.

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/20707… Starting from the essential foundation of Jesus Christ’s incarnation, life, and teaching, Father Barron moves through the defining elements of Catholicism — from sacraments, worship, and prayer, to Mary, the Apostles, and Saints, to grace, salvation, heaven, and hell — using his distinct and dynamic grasp of art, literature, architecture, personal stories, Scripture, theology, philosophy, and history to present the Church to the world. Paired with his documentary film series of the same title, Catholicism is an intimate journey, capturing “The Catholic Thing” in all its depth and beauty. Eclectic, unique, and inspiring, Father Barron brings the faith to life for a new generation, in a style that is both faithful to timeless truths, while simultaneously speaking in the language of contemporary life.

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“when you love someone with your whole heart it makes you become the best of what God intended you to be…held joyful, faithful, peaceful, and radiant in His Love til the end of all time.” -Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./shannan suzzette taylor

“when you love someone with your whole heart it makes you become the best of what God intended you to be…held joyful, faithful, peaceful, and radiant in His Love til the end of all time.” -Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./shannan suzzette taylor

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“when i was a child, i thought, it cannot be possible to have a split Church, a split Truth, a split Love so when i went to the Catholic Chapel as a Protestant, and i saw written above the door, “Jesus is here and waiting for you,” that humbled me and filled me with great love. so, God works in me in spite of myself and in religious life i found a place of freedom of Spirit, and the freedom of The Spirit In The Church. i found the Source of Life, Eternal Life, in the Gospels. God is closer to us than we are to ourselves. God is our sparkle, our eternal spring, the Source of True Life. each one of us has to find out how to live as a Christian but God is always here and waiting for us to talk to Him. God is Love. God is Mercy. we are happy because we are free to Love God. prayer is the most efficient thing we can do everyday. prayer changes us. prayer changes the world around us. take time in your day to read a passage of the Bible and reflect on God. pray for the people and for the world. it is in the depths of your soul where you hear God talking to you. all people want to hear God. all people want to love God and be loved by God.” -Sister Anne Lise Strom, Lunden Kloster, Norway

“when i was a child, i thought, it cannot be possible to have a split Church, a split Truth, a split Love so when i went to the Catholic Chapel as a Protestant, and i saw written above the door, “Jesus is here and waiting for you,” that humbled me and filled me with great love. so, God works in me in spite of myself and in religious life i found a place of freedom of Spirit, and the freedom of The Spirit In The Church. i found the Source of Life, Eternal Life, in the Gospels. God is closer to us than we are to ourselves. God is our sparkle, our eternal spring, the Source of True Life. each one of us has to find out how to live as a Christian but God is always here and waiting for us to talk to Him. God is Love. God is Mercy. we are happy because we are free to Love God. prayer is the most efficient thing we can do everyday. prayer changes us. prayer changes the world around us. take time in your day to read a passage of the Bible and reflect on God. pray for the people and for the world. it is in the depths of your soul where you hear God talking to you. all people want to hear God. all people want to love God and be loved by God.” -Sister Anne Lise Strom, Lunden Kloster, Norway

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The Best Of Us (c) 2013 Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./shannan suzzette taylor- “when we love fully in complete surrender and trust we rise to become the best of us”

The Best Of Us
(c) 2013 Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./Shannan Suzzette Taylor

when we love
fully
in complete surrender
and trust
we rise to become
the best of us

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“God speaks through the whispers of our soul that only a silent mind can hear. Beauty is in the heart of love not the mind of it.” -Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./shannan suzzette taylor

“God speaks through the whispers of our soul that only a silent mind can hear. Beauty is in the heart of love not the mind of it.” -Owen Joseph/shannan suzzette

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VERITATIS SPLENDOR (The Splendor of Truth) Pope John Paul II- CHAPTER I – “Teacher, what good must I do…?” (MT 19:16 CHAPTER II – “Do not be conformed to this world” (ROM 12:2) CHAPTER III – “Lest the Cross of Christ be emptied of its power”(1 COR 1:17) CONCLUSION – Mary, Mother of Mercy-118. At the end of these considerations, let us entrust ourselves, the sufferings and the joys of our life, the moral life of believers and people of good will, and the research of moralists, to Mary, Mother of God and Mother of Mercy. Mary is Mother of Mercy because her Son, Jesus Christ, was sent by the Father as the revelation of God’s mercy (cf. Jn 3:16-18). Christ came not to condemn but to forgive, to show mercy (cf. Mt 9:13). And the greatest mercy of all is found in his being in our midst and calling us to meet him and to confess, with Peter, that he is “the Son of the living God” (Mt 16:16). No human sin can erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing all his triumphant power, if we only call upon him. Indeed, sin itself makes even more radiant the love of the Father who, in order to ransom a slave, sacrificed his Son:[181] his mercy towards us is Redemption. This mercy reaches its fullness in the gift of the Spirit who bestows new life and demands that it be lived. No matter how many and great the obstacles put in his way by human frailty and sin, the Spirit, who renews the face of the earth (cf. Ps 104:30), makes possible the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good. This renewal, which gives the ability to do what is good, noble, beautiful, pleasing to God and in conformity with his will, is in some way the flowering of the gift of mercy, which offers liberation from the slavery of evil and gives the strength to sin no more. Through the gift of new life, Jesus makes us sharers in his love and leads us to the Father in the Spirit. 119. Such is the consoling certainty of Christian faith, the source of its profound humanity and extraordinary simplicity. At times, in the discussions about new and complex moral problems, it can seem that Christian morality is in itself too demanding, difficult to understand and almost impossible to practise. This is untrue, since Christian morality consists, in the simplicity of the Gospel, in following Jesus Christ, in abandoning oneself to him, in letting oneself be transformed by his grace and renewed by his mercy, gifts which come to us in the living communion of his Church. Saint Augustine reminds us that “he who would live has a place to live, and has everything needed to live. Let him draw near, let him believe, let him become part of the body, that he may have life. Let him not shrink from the unity of the members”.[182] By the light of the Holy Spirit, the living essence of Christian morality can be understood by everyone, even the least learned, but particularly those who are able to preserve an “undivided heart” (Ps 86:11). On the other hand, this evangelical simplicity does not exempt one from facing reality in its complexity; rather it can lead to a more genuine understanding of reality, inasmuch as following Christ will gradually bring out the distinctive character of authentic Christian morality, while providing the vital energy needed to carry it out. It is the task of the Church’s Magisterium to see that the dynamic process of following Christ develops in an organic manner, without the falsification or obscuring of its moral demands, with all their consequences. The one who loves Christ keeps his commandments (cf. Jn 14:15). 120. Mary is also Mother of Mercy because it is to her that Jesus entrusts his Church and all humanity. At the foot of the Cross, when she accepts John as her son, when she asks, together with Christ, forgiveness from the Father for those who do not know what they do (cf. Lk 23:34), Mary experiences, in perfect docility to the Spirit, the richness and the universality of God’s love, which opens her heart and enables it to embrace the entire human race. Thus Mary becomes Mother of each and every one of us, the Mother who obtains for us divine mercy. Mary is the radiant sign and inviting model of the moral life. As Saint Ambrose put it, “The life of this one person can serve as a model for everyone”,[183] and while speaking specifically to virgins but within a context open to all, he affirmed: “The first stimulus to learning is the nobility of the teacher. Who can be more noble than the Mother of God? Who can be more glorious than the one chosen by Glory Itself?”.[184] Mary lived and exercised her freedom precisely by giving herself to God and accepting God’s gift within herself. Until the time of his birth, she sheltered in her womb the Son of God who became man; she raised him and enabled him to grow, and she accompanied him in that supreme act of freedom which is the complete sacrifice of his own life. By the gift of herself, Mary entered fully into the plan of God who gives himself to the world. By accepting and pondering in her heart events which she did not always understand (cf. Lk 2:19), she became the model of all those who hear the word of God and keep it (cf. Lk 11:28), and merited the title of “Seat of Wisdom”. This Wisdom is Jesus Christ himself, the Eternal Word of God, who perfectly reveals and accomplishes the will of the Father (cf. Heb 10:5-10). Mary invites everyone to accept this Wisdom. To us too she addresses the command she gave to the servants at Cana in Galilee during the marriage feast: “Do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:5). Mary shares our human condition, but in complete openness to the grace of God. Not having known sin, she is able to have compassion on every kind of weakness. She understands sinful man and loves him with a Mother’s love. Precisely for this reason she is on the side of truth and shares the Church’s burden in recalling always and to everyone the demands of morality. Nor does she permit sinful man to be deceived by those who claim to love him by justifying his sin, for she knows that the sacrifice of Christ her Son would thus be emptied of its power. No absolution offered by beguiling doctrines, even in the areas of philosophy and theology, can make man truly happy: only the Cross and the glory of the Risen Christ can grant peace to his conscience and salvation to his life. O Mary, Mother of Mercy, watch over all people, that the Cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power, that man may not stray from the path of the good or become blind to sin, but may put his hope ever more fully in God who is “rich in mercy” (Eph 2:4). May he carry out the good works prepared by God beforehand (cf. Eph 2:10) and so live completely “for the praise of his glory” (Eph 1:12). Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 6 August, Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, in the year 1993, the fifteenth of my Pontificate. -Pope John Paul II

VERITATIS SPLENDOR (The Splendor of Truth) Pope John Paul II- CHAPTER I – “Teacher, what good must I do…?” (MT 19:16 CHAPTER II – “Do not be conformed to this world” (ROM 12:2) CHAPTER III – “Lest the Cross of Christ be emptied of its power”(1 COR 1:17) CONCLUSION – Mary, Mother of Mercy-118. At the end of these considerations, let us entrust ourselves, the sufferings and the joys of our life, the moral life of believers and people of good will, and the research of moralists, to Mary, Mother of God and Mother of Mercy. Mary is Mother of Mercy because her Son, Jesus Christ, was sent by the Father as the revelation of God’s mercy (cf. Jn 3:16-18). Christ came not to condemn but to forgive, to show mercy (cf. Mt 9:13). And the greatest mercy of all is found in his being in our midst and calling us to meet him and to confess, with Peter, that he is “the Son of the living God” (Mt 16:16). No human sin can erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing all his triumphant power, if we only call upon him. Indeed, sin itself makes even more radiant the love of the Father who, in order to ransom a slave, sacrificed his Son:[181] his mercy towards us is Redemption. This mercy reaches its fullness in the gift of the Spirit who bestows new life and demands that it be lived. No matter how many and great the obstacles put in his way by human frailty and sin, the Spirit, who renews the face of the earth (cf. Ps 104:30), makes possible the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good. This renewal, which gives the ability to do what is good, noble, beautiful, pleasing to God and in conformity with his will, is in some way the flowering of the gift of mercy, which offers liberation from the slavery of evil and gives the strength to sin no more. Through the gift of new life, Jesus makes us sharers in his love and leads us to the Father in the Spirit. 119. Such is the consoling certainty of Christian faith, the source of its profound humanity and extraordinary simplicity. At times, in the discussions about new and complex moral problems, it can seem that Christian morality is in itself too demanding, difficult to understand and almost impossible to practise. This is untrue, since Christian morality consists, in the simplicity of the Gospel, in following Jesus Christ, in abandoning oneself to him, in letting oneself be transformed by his grace and renewed by his mercy, gifts which come to us in the living communion of his Church. Saint Augustine reminds us that “he who would live has a place to live, and has everything needed to live. Let him draw near, let him believe, let him become part of the body, that he may have life. Let him not shrink from the unity of the members”.[182] By the light of the Holy Spirit, the living essence of Christian morality can be understood by everyone, even the least learned, but particularly those who are able to preserve an “undivided heart” (Ps 86:11). On the other hand, this evangelical simplicity does not exempt one from facing reality in its complexity; rather it can lead to a more genuine understanding of reality, inasmuch as following Christ will gradually bring out the distinctive character of authentic Christian morality, while providing the vital energy needed to carry it out. It is the task of the Church’s Magisterium to see that the dynamic process of following Christ develops in an organic manner, without the falsification or obscuring of its moral demands, with all their consequences. The one who loves Christ keeps his commandments (cf. Jn 14:15). 120. Mary is also Mother of Mercy because it is to her that Jesus entrusts his Church and all humanity. At the foot of the Cross, when she accepts John as her son, when she asks, together with Christ, forgiveness from the Father for those who do not know what they do (cf. Lk 23:34), Mary experiences, in perfect docility to the Spirit, the richness and the universality of God’s love, which opens her heart and enables it to embrace the entire human race. Thus Mary becomes Mother of each and every one of us, the Mother who obtains for us divine mercy. Mary is the radiant sign and inviting model of the moral life. As Saint Ambrose put it, “The life of this one person can serve as a model for everyone”,[183] and while speaking specifically to virgins but within a context open to all, he affirmed: “The first stimulus to learning is the nobility of the teacher. Who can be more noble than the Mother of God? Who can be more glorious than the one chosen by Glory Itself?”.[184] Mary lived and exercised her freedom precisely by giving herself to God and accepting God’s gift within herself. Until the time of his birth, she sheltered in her womb the Son of God who became man; she raised him and enabled him to grow, and she accompanied him in that supreme act of freedom which is the complete sacrifice of his own life. By the gift of herself, Mary entered fully into the plan of God who gives himself to the world. By accepting and pondering in her heart events which she did not always understand (cf. Lk 2:19), she became the model of all those who hear the word of God and keep it (cf. Lk 11:28), and merited the title of “Seat of Wisdom”. This Wisdom is Jesus Christ himself, the Eternal Word of God, who perfectly reveals and accomplishes the will of the Father (cf. Heb 10:5-10). Mary invites everyone to accept this Wisdom. To us too she addresses the command she gave to the servants at Cana in Galilee during the marriage feast: “Do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:5). Mary shares our human condition, but in complete openness to the grace of God. Not having known sin, she is able to have compassion on every kind of weakness. She understands sinful man and loves him with a Mother’s love. Precisely for this reason she is on the side of truth and shares the Church’s burden in recalling always and to everyone the demands of morality. Nor does she permit sinful man to be deceived by those who claim to love him by justifying his sin, for she knows that the sacrifice of Christ her Son would thus be emptied of its power. No absolution offered by beguiling doctrines, even in the areas of philosophy and theology, can make man truly happy: only the Cross and the glory of the Risen Christ can grant peace to his conscience and salvation to his life. O Mary, Mother of Mercy, watch over all people, that the Cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power, that man may not stray from the path of the good or become blind to sin, but may put his hope ever more fully in God who is “rich in mercy” (Eph 2:4). May he carry out the good works prepared by God beforehand (cf. Eph 2:10) and so live completely “for the praise of his glory” (Eph 1:12). Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 6 August, Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, in the year 1993, the fifteenth of my Pontificate. -Pope John Paul II

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God Is Love (c) 2013 Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./ Shannan Suzzette Taylor- “God is Love and i found Him smiling in Us”

God Is Love
(c) 2013 Owen Joseph Tierney Jr./Shannan Suzzette Taylor

God is Love
and i found Him
smiling in Us

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