Reflection

I recently came across a few works by Father Matthew the Poor and they are a good reflection for this Lenten period.

"The greatest gift we can give to others is Christ's dwelling within our hearts."
Fr.Matthew the Poor

"Blessed be the person who lives in Christ's Heart, he doesn't feel any loneliness on earth at all,but he feels that he is the happiest citizen everywhere."
Fr. Matthew the Poor 

Here, Christ did not say act upon the commandments; rather, keep the commandments. Keep them in the safe of your heart, so it becomes a treasury of good things, because keeping leads to action, but acting does not allow man to contain the knowledge of God in their hearts.
Fr. Matthew the Poor

A deed done through love that is kept in the heart leads to eternal life; but acting upon commandments without heartfelt love is nothing.
Fr. Matthew the Poor

I implore God to give you reconciliation, peace and love as a small family and little flock God was happy to grant the Kingdom to. Love one another from a very pure heart, and be humble to one another. There is no great and small among you; we are all dust and ashes. There is no first or last among you; Christ is our Alpha and Omega. Put on Christ and let His humbleness, kindness, pity and degradation of Himself that led Him to the Cross which He glorified, dwell in you.
Fr. Matthew the Poor

I ask Christ,the hope of your life, whom you have cast the net of your life at His name,to enter to the depth with you where the soul is exposed before its creature & shows the dealings of God with it.
Fr. Matthew the Poor    

"The Church is a mystery of overcoming lonely solitude. Overcoming solitude must be experienced realistically. Attending a church service, you come close to the wall of God’s Church only when a ray of love slowly but inexorably melts the ice of your loneliness. Then you stop noticing that which seemed to build a barbed wire fence around you, the real or imaginary lack of faith of the priest, the viciousness of the old women on the watch for proper church behavior, the barbaric curiosity of two gaping youths who happened to drop in, the commercial arguments around the sale of candles. The, through all of this you reach out to the blind soul of people, to the human being who in a minute may hear better and more clearly than you the voice of Jesus Christ, Man and God".
Sergei Fudel