I've had it with the news.

The Lord is passing by . . . can you hear Him over the noise of all the "links.?"

  

Kings 19:11-13;   1 Kings Catholic; 3 Kings Prot. 

11 And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before the Lord over throwing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: the Lord is not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake: the Lord is not in the earthquake.  12 And after the earthquake a fire: the Lord is not in the fire, and after the fire a whistling of a gentle air.  13 And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and coming forth stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias?

"Let us always have our thoughts fixed on that which is to last eternally, without concerning ourselves with things here below, which disappear even more quickly than we ourselves."

-St. Teresa of Avila

 

If you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above; mind the things that are above, not the things that are on earth. —St. Paul to the Colossians 3:1-2

 

    Meditation on the life of Jesus in all its details puts us little by little in an atmosphere of supernatural reality, and delivers us from the customary way in which men live, so deceived as to take no account of this great reality. Sin, and the results of sin, has succeeded in creating a world of mirages, illusions, and errors. This has developed to such an extent that men eventually grow accustomed to this world, sensitized, sensualized, humanized, no longer being able to see that all this is vain and ephemeral in relation to the true spiritual and supernatural life, in relation to eternal life.   Archbishop Marcel Lefevbre.

 

O God, Who didst teach blessed Hermenegild, Thy martyr, to choose a heavenly kingdom rather than an earthly one, grant us, we beseech Thee, to despise fleeting things, after his example, and to pursue those that are eternal. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. 

April 13, feast day of  St. Hermenegild.