Fr Scott Reilly LC

Avoid simply going along to get along. Love demands the best from us.

“Unless you become like a child, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.”

Keep evangelizing!

The kingdom of God is within you.

“What incites us to nervousness or panic is never God’s will! It is our own illusion that makes us believe that we must absolutely do certain things within a certain time. ”

The power of giving your personal testimony on Christ working in your life.

Imagine what God can do in your life if you let him!

(St. Bernard) Let us consider, brothers, how here in our home the ordering of love assigns these three things: service to Martha, contemplation to Mary, penance to Lazarus.

“Use good things that pass in such a way to hold fast to those that ever endure”

“The most significant signal-sending actions you can take to demonstrate that you live the values are: how you spend your time and what you pay attention to, the language (words and phrases) you use, the way you handle critical incidents, and your openness to feedback. These actions make visible and tangible your personal commitment to a shared way of being.” — The Leadership Challenge: How to Mak...

How to love the Lord!

“The Evil One uses the pain and confusion of a fallen world to shadow doubt over God’s goodness. As long as the laughter of being forgiven is silenced by the somber tones of doubt and anger, God’s goodness will be shrouded in the darkness of this world. Forgiveness is the light that penetrates the dark and frees the somber, shamed heart to leap with love.” — Bold Love by Dan B. Allender

We are practiced in pleading inadequacy in order to avoid living at the best that God calls us to. How tired the excuses sound!” Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best (Peterson, Eugene H.) .

My soul is thirsting for the living God!

Serve with a smile.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” (Robert Frost).

St. Benedict was crucial for Europe’s development and the Catholic Church’s.

“On the other hand, whenever a step forward in relations with God involves a fruitful step, it is often because a passage across a barrier with God has been courageous in our self-offering. A risk must be taken in which all security and sense of direction might be lost, and sometimes all security does disappear for a while, both in the interior life and in a worldly sense. Yet crossing a boundary...

Fasting helps one to keep one’s mind clear and sharp and one’s heart free from desires that are not of God.

“Without vision the people perish” Prov 29:18.

The act of faith and adherence they are expected to achieve does not limit itself to an intellectual assent. The act of total adherence to Jesus—with soul, spirit, will, and body—includes even those subconscious, emotional recesses we normally think cannot be governed by the deliberate exercise of the will. On this boat during this storm, it is the disciples’ very emotions and deepest survival ins...

The love of Jesus and impels us forward!

So when Jesus looked up and said, “I have come to bring fire to the earth and I wish it were blazing already”, you and me are answering his dream.

Indeed, today we often hide it under a thousand apologies. So often it disappears in the convolutions of our methods. But we have no reason to apologize for the Gospel. We must apologize for hiding it.” Teaching and Learning the Love of God: Being a Priest Today" by Joseph Ratzinger -

“Much of the first mistake can be traced to one basic error: we make an attribution about another person’s intentions based on the impact of their actions on us. “ — Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, et al.