EASTER: THE ORIGINAL “THANKSGIVING DAY”

 
A few quotes to celebrate gratitude—He IS risen!!
 
“For all that has been—thanks.  For all that will be—yes.”  --Dag Hammarskjold, Markings
 
     “But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”  --I Corinthians 15:57
 
     “I have called you friends…” –John 15:15
 
“If you want a friend, tame me…  …here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”  --Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
 
The heavenly Kingdom is “…that most perfectly ordered and harmonious society of the enjoyment of God, and of one another in God.”  --St Augustine, The City of God
 
 “I will arise and go to my father…  While he was a still long way off, his father caught sight of him and was filled with compassion…” –Luke 15:18, 20
 
“You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”  --St Augustine, Confessions
 
“So it was that I learned that love was our Lord’s meaning.  And I saw for certain, both here and elsewhere, that before ever he made us, God loved us; and that his love has never slackened, nor ever shall.  …In it we have our beginning.”  --Mother Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
 
 “I announce to you a great joy, which shall be for all the people…” –Luke 2:10
 
 “…hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.”  --Romans 5:5
 
 “We adore you, O most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here and in all your churches in the world, and we bless you, because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.” –St Francis of Assisi
 
“[My] earthly longings have been crucified; in me there is left no spark of desire for mundane things, but only a murmur of living water that whispers within me, ‘Come to the Father.’”  --St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Romans
 
“In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.”  --St John of the Cross                                                                                                                                                                                  -Fr. David