Short videos discussing the Wisdom of Fulton Sheen
As the “no” of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefor free, so (Mary’s) Fiat proves that the creature was made for love as well.
The world might have expected the Son of God to be born in an inn; a stable would certainly be the last place in the world where one would look for him. The lesson is: divinity is always where you least expect to find it. So the Son of God made man, is invited to enter into his own world through the back door.
But when finally the scrolls of history are complete, down to the last work of time, the saddest line of all will be: “There was no room in the inn.” The inn was the gathering place of public opinion, the focal point of the world’s moods, the rendezvous of the worldly, the rallying place of the popular and the successful. But there’s no room in the place where the world gathers. The stable is a place for outcasts, the ignored and the forgotten.
Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven–not excused or sublimated.
It is typically American to feel that we are not doing anything unless we are doing something big. But from the Christian point of view, there is no one thing that is bigger than any other thing.
Because we live in a world where position is determined economically, we forget that in God’s world the royalty are those who do His will.
What we over-love, we often over-grieve.
The principle cause of discontent is egotism, or selfishness, which sets the self up as a primary plant around which everyone else must revolve. The second cause of discontent is envy, which makes us regard the possessions and the talents of others as if they were stolen from us. The third cause is covetousness, or an inordinate desire to have more in order to compensate for the emptiness of our heart. The fourth cause of discontent is jealousy, which is sometimes occasioned through melancholia and sadness, and at other times by hatred and those who have what we wish for ourselves.
Satan may appear in many disguises like Christ, and at the end of the world will appear as a benefactor and philanthropist–but Satan never has and never will appear with scars.