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Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
Reflections on Faith, Hope & Love.
Love letters to the King...
Sarah Raad
Freelance Writer
When my little niece was born with a rare and severe congenital heart defect, we had no hope other than to prostrate ourselves at the Foot of the Cross and beg for prayers. Somehow, in the days and weeks and months that followed, by Grace and the Infinite Goodness of God, my faith, the size of a mustard seed grew into a tree. Now I pray that this faith, which is such a new and glorious gift for me, will shelter others and give them hope in the Goodness and Love of God.
Intimate
Saint Edith Stein, pray for us who have recourse to thee…
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1 hour ago3 min read
Resignation
“God is the same as always. It is men of faith that are needed: and then, there will be a renewal of the wonders we read of in the Gospel. Ecce non est abbreviata manus Domini, God's arm, His power, has not grown weaker!” (St Josemaría).
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1 day ago3 min read
Investment
“You cannot be half a saint. You must be a whole saint or no saint at all.” (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux).
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2 days ago3 min read
Poverty
I have been thinking about how little use I make of poverty and how much like an Egyptian pharaoh I really am…
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3 days ago3 min read
Tired
“If I were not tired at this hour of the day, it would be a sign that I hadn't fulfilled my duty.” (Pope Saint John Paul II).
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4 days ago3 min read
Blind
God does not have a problem with sinners – the Divine Mercy is evidence of that. Rather, the problem that God has is with UNREPENTANT sinners… Because unrepentant sinners are blind and the blind will never see.
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5 days ago3 min read
Constancy
“Once after Holy Communion, I heard these words: You are Our dwelling place. At that moment, I felt in my soul the presence of the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” (Diary of Saint Faustina, Diary Entry, 451).
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6 days ago3 min read
Service
“After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.” (John 13:5).
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Sep 63 min read
Hole
The boy replied, “I will finish before you fit the Mystery of the Trinity into your tiny little brain.”
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Sep 53 min read
Work
“…then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.” (Genesis 2:7).
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Sep 42 min read
Recovery
All things shall be turned to good in God’s own time…
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Sep 23 min read
Data
“But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” (John 16:7).
Sarah Raad
Sep 13 min read
Repetition
God repeats Himself with infinite patience because I am like an unruly teenager, who spends my time ignoring my God.
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Aug 312 min read
TikTok
“‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!’” (Mark 11:20).
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Aug 303 min read
Example
“You need interior life and doctrinal formation. Be demanding on yourself! As a Christian man or woman, you have to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, for you are obliged to give good example with holy shamelessness.” (Saint Josemaria, “The Forge” at 450).
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Aug 293 min read
Prayer
“True prayer which absorbs the whole individual benefits not so much from the solitude of the desert as from interior recollection.” (Saint Josemaria, “Furrow” at 460)
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Aug 283 min read
Reason
Christ endured such evil not because He could not stop it, but because He wanted to show me (and show you too) that we too could endure any evil in our lives…
Sarah Raad
Aug 273 min read
Children
God loves me – even when I hurt…
Sarah Raad
Aug 263 min read
Eucharist
“I urge you with all the strength of my soul to approach the Eucharistic Table as often as possible.” (Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati).
Sarah Raad
Aug 253 min read
Forgive
I know that my Lord and my God will see that and forgive me my FAR GREATER sins in return…
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Aug 243 min read
Weak
“As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.” (Luke 23:26).
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Aug 233 min read
Faith
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” (Saint Augustine).
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Aug 222 min read
Prayed
One sinful man would break the Church, but it has survived a billion sinful men over twenty centuries because the Church is never about one man – it is ALWAYS about ONE GOD.
Sarah Raad
Aug 212 min read
Accident
“‘…And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world.’” (John 17:11a).
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Aug 202 min read
Presence
“Jesus said to his disciples ‘Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations...” (Luke 24:46-50).
Sarah Raad
Aug 193 min read
Patience
“Even the very Death of Our Lord would have been useless without Him. It's like being given a treasure; it would be necessary for someone to distribute it: the Father gave His Son, the Son gave Himself and the Holy Spirit came to distribute all His graces.” (Saint John Vianney).
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Aug 183 min read
Spirit
“But when the Counsellor comes, whom I shall send to you...” (John 15:26).
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Aug 173 min read
Away
God has provided me with the sacraments so that I can return to Him with love, and He has provided me with perfect Love Itself in the form of the Holy Spirit.
Sarah Raad
Aug 164 min read
Servant
“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:12).
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Aug 153 min read
Mercy
“Your misery does not hinder My mercy.” (Diary of Saint Faustina, Diary Entry 1182).
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Aug 142 min read
Joy
“Jesus said to his disciples: ‘abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.’” (John 15:9-11).
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Aug 133 min read
Woman
“Do whatever he tells you.” (John 2:5).
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Aug 123 min read
Temptation
“Then the devil left Him, and angels came and attended Him.” (Matthew 4:11).
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Aug 103 min read
Out
I must take my own pride out then I would have the humility to sit in silence and wait for God to speak.
Sarah Raad
Aug 93 min read
Milkman
“…here’s John the milkman.”
Sarah Raad
Aug 82 min read
War
“In times of spiritual coldness and laziness, imagine in your heart those times in the past when you were full of zeal and solicitude in all things, even the smallest.” (Saint Isaak of Syria).
Sarah Raad
Aug 73 min read
Pause
If a human being can create a gap – a space or a pause – between the moment of action and the moment of reaction, then power could be reclaimed over the situation.
Sarah Raad
Aug 63 min read
Weak
The less we rely on our faith, the more weak it becomes.
Sarah Raad
Aug 53 min read
Despite
Surely, there is no greater love than the love of being able to literally lay down one’s life – and all their power – for another…?
Sarah Raad
Aug 42 min read
End
“Man was created for a certain end.” (Saint Ignatius of Loyola, page 18 from “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius”).
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Aug 23 min read
Go
“Then...while He blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.” (Luke 24:53).
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Aug 13 min read
Peace
“Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.” (John 14:27).
Sarah Raad
Jul 312 min read
Abide
“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.” (John 15:1-8).
Sarah Raad
Jul 303 min read
Cold
“‘…Their love is lukewarm, and My Heart cannot bear it…’” (Diary of Saint Faustina, 580).
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Jul 292 min read
Deadline
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” (Matthew 24:36).
Sarah Raad
Jul 282 min read
Perseverance
Marriage is no easy thing. It is rather, the most extraordinary thing to be considered in all the world.
Sarah Raad
Jul 273 min read
Anger
“Most persons have temptations to anger.” (Matt Fradd, “Rooting Out Hidden Faults”, page 75-76).
Sarah Raad
Jul 263 min read
Gloomy
“By accepting the sufferings ‘offered’ by life and allowed by God for our progress and purification, we spare ourselves much harder ones.” (Father Jacques Philippe, “Interior Freedom” at page 49).
Sarah Raad
Jul 252 min read
No-One
“Let not your hearts be troubled” (John 14:1).
Sarah Raad
Jul 242 min read
Weariness
“I want to warn you against a difficulty that may arise: it is the temptation of weariness and discouragement.” (Saint Josemaria, “The Forge”, at 286).
Sarah Raad
Jul 233 min read
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