![Stop Fiddling and Let Him Play](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/12/na-470x140.jpg)
You are saved by faith in Jesus Christ Sanctified by faith in Jesus Christ Glorified by faith in Jesus Christ Made perfect by faith in…
![Saint Therese of Lisieux](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/11/ste-thrse-de-lisieux-quality-picture-470x140.jpg)
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
![St. Louis de Montfort](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/11/St.-Louis-DeMontfort-Mary-Baby-Jesus-470x140.jpg)
It is indeed time to fulfil your promise. Your divine commandments are broken, your Gospel is thrown aside, torrents of iniquity flood the whole earth…
![send me](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/10/wherever-i-go-god-is-there-450x140.jpg)
“The Church has failed to implement Gaudium et Spes.” This was my first locution and if I’m a betting man it will be my last. …
![heaven's love](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/10/heavens1-470x140.jpg)
God is simply attempting the impossible within us, that we would be made perfect in one thing and one thing alone. All endeavors within us…
![The Potter who molds our dust](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/10/donat-baribault-christ-the-king-alternate-view-2-1934-470x140.jpg)
1 Dust alone will not do 2 The waters of life to mold 3 The labor of the Potter 4 Time and saturation 5 You…
![Saint of the Week--St. Francis of Assisi](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/10/stfrancis-470x140.jpg)
From the Catholic Encyclopedia article on St. Francis: “His dearest desire so long as he lived”, Celano tells us, “was ever to seek among wise…
![Images, Statues and Icons](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/07/crucifix-e1343255976716-470x140.jpg)
Too much mud (and worse!) has been slung amongst Christians over images. Last Sunday at Mass, my youngest daughters and I, ages 4, 1 and…
![abandonment to divine love](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/10/but-my-words-become-stained-with-your-love-you-occupy-everything-470x140.jpg)
That single phrase if embraced in and through the cross, with Mary, in Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, is the beginning and…
![quote on heaven](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/10/heavens-470x140.jpg)
After the fever of life – after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding – after all the…