Catholic Cookie Jar: Stop worrying, start trusting

If you are the kind of person who worries about everything (I know I am), then this post is for you. There are some great quotes that will really make you think about what we're really doing when we worry, as well as some great book recommendations.

Catholic Cookie Jar: Stop worrying, start trusting: I have a tendency to worry.  A lot.  My mom can attest to the fact that I need many reminders to focus on the present and stop worrying abou...

Let my soul, O Lord

Let my soul, O Lord, be sensible of its happiness. Let it, in the silence of all worldly cares, taste and enjoy the sweetness of Thy presence.

~found in The Roman Missal (1962)

Third Sunday After Epiphany

GOSPEL (Matthew 8:1-13)

At that time, when Jesus had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him: And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: "I will, be thou made clean." And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus saith to him: "See thou tell no man: but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them."

And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him,

and saying, "Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grievously tormented." And Jesus saith to him: "I will come and heal him." And the centurion, making answer, said: "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another Come, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it."

And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed him. "Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven: But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." And Jesus said to the centurion: "Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee." And the servant was healed at the same hour.