Religion

"Often, though, we will find the Cross in the ordinary and even trivial things that we encounter in the course of run-of-the-mill days: fatigue; lacking the time we would like to do things; having to renounce a pleasant plan we had made; bearing with love the defects of persons

"Jesus is probably not asking us to suffer a martyr's death for him. But He is asking us for courage and fortitude in facing up to the demands of ordinary life." Francis Fernandez

"We can find a broad field for living mortification in our daily work--not putting people down, working with intensity, carrying out our tasks with a spirit of service." Francis Fernandez

"Worry, fear, and cowardice arise when prayer weakens." Francis Fernandez

"A temperate life is a life of mortification and joy. We shall often find opportunities to practice mortification in the little things that allow our reason to control our bodies and enable the soul to understand the things relating to God. Interior mortification guides our imagination and memory by

The Wrestler I was home by myself Friday night after working eleven hours at the office by myself (office shut down for holiday, but I had a mountain to move). I decided to treat myself with a movie I'd been wanting to see since it came out last

"Strive to acquire the virtues you think your brothers lack, and then you will no longer see their defects, because you yourselves will not have them." St. Augustine

"Sins that are easiest to amend bring the greatest punishment." St. John Chrysostom

"God makes use of little things to act in souls." Francis Fernandez