Fr Scott Reilly LC

Don’t conform to this world.

Herod respected John, but never converted.

The Wisdom of the Cross of Christ.

Be true!

The incredible ramifications of Jesus’ call.

You are Peter and upon this rock. I will build my Church.

Love requires an undivided heart

God is a God of invitation, but he takes the first step to make it all possible.

Doing good is the Lord’s work and our work.

Pride is the greatest monkey wrench that destroys the most beautiful.

If we are to be deified by grace, then we must act as God would act.

Be a child of God.

The power of the Rosary!

Take up your cross WITH JESUS.

All becomes fruitful in the cross of Christ.

“Every era of spiritual renewal began with a renewal of prayer. It is because men and women sought God with all their heart, to know and love him, and entered into a personal relationship with him, that the Church in certain periods purified herself.” — Prayer: Oxygen for the Soul by Fr. Jacques Philippe

Jeremiah would have loved Hananiah’s prophecy to be true. He wasn’t attached to being right; he was attached to God’s truth.

A life built only on safety without taking a risk is never truly free.

Every trial, every correction, every invitation to repentance is the hand of the Potter pressing gently against our lives, trying to make us into the image of His Son.

He valued sitting with his friends, sharing a meal, spending time together. Something so human, yet something God himself created and sanctified by his own presence.

God gave Jeremiah a heart after his very own.

Jesus is the treasure.

Our hearts are formed well by our encounter with the Heart of the Shepherd, Jesus.

To Believe in Jesus (Ruth Burrows OCD) “I am convinced that anyone who truly seeks God rather than himself will find him, and this in spite of being directed into wrong paths. The Holy Spirit will lead him, secretly, probably painfully but most surely.”

If we, like Mary Magdalene, open the deepest wounds of our hearts to the mercy of Christ, he will call each of us by name.

On which timeline do you operate your life?

How often as children we said, and you as parents heard, “That’s not fair!”

Prayer is one of the real means God has chosen to accomplish His will.

The Cross refreshes us only because it is the Cross of Someone who loves us completely.

The force for growth is God's love.

But rain does what rain does—it waters the earth and makes it fertile.

stretch for the Lord!

Could Jesus have chosen anyone more disqualified to be the pillars of His Church?

Her hospitality flows from faith. She recognizes God’s presence in Elisha and responds generously.

Jesus wants us to strive for excellence and develop virtuous lives. He wants us to get up and walk, walk away from habitual sin that perhaps has a hold on someone due to spiritual confusion.

From the womb John was baptized by Christ, who was in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

He did not know what God would do, but he knew God would hear him and what God decided would be best.

It is in the small things this coherency of life is forged.

I can do all things with him who gives me strength!

We have been inserted into Christ’s very priesthood.

God’s correction of Ahab was not an act of rejection but of mercy. God was fighting for Ahab’s heart before it was too late.

How is chastity a fruit of the Holy Spirit?

Oh how He loves us!

Are we becoming what God created us to be? Are we authentic disciples?

“In the presence of the Ultimate the only thing that survives is what is authentic.

St. Paul is a man who was decisive and intentional

Is it possible to get through the day without lying?

The Blessed Trinity dwells in each of us through sanctifying grace.

Problem: we don’t discuss what matters most, because we don’t dedicate the time.

At Calvary the Woman becomes Mother of the Church.