Forty-Fourth Annual Time of Prayer and Fasting for
The Truth of Gospel Nonviolence
July 1-August 9
Our Lamb has conquered. Him let us follow.
FAST FOOD 2026, Twenty-First Helping
This is an excerpt from the, Story of a Soul, the most read book by Catholics in the Twentieth Century, translated into more that forty languages. It is St.Therese of Lisieux’s autobiography, who in my experience has brought more peace to more people than anyone living or dead of whom I am aware. In the Catholic Church she is often referred to as “the greatest saint of modern times,” an appellation bestowed on her by the Pope. The following little segment of her writings is the key to the sanctity she possessed and to the power of sanctity which was released through her.
– Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
“Recently, God has given me the grace to understand what love is; I understood it before, it is true, but in an imperfect way. I had never fathomed the meaning of these words of Jesus: “The second commandment is like the first.” I applied myself especially to loving God, and it is in loving Him that I understood my love was not to be expressed only in words, for: “It is not those who say: ‘Lord, Lord!” who will enter the kingdom of heaven, but those who do the will of my Father in heaven.” Jesus has revealed this several times or I should say on almost every page of His Gospel. But at the Last Supper, when He knew the hearts of His disciples were burning with a more ardent love for Him who had just given Himself to them in the unspeakable mystery of His Eucharist, this sweet Savior wished to give them a new commandment. He said to them with inexpressible tenderness: “A new commandment I give you that you love one another AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, YOU ALSO MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER. By this will all people know that you are my disciples.
When the Lord commanded His people to love their neighbor as themselves, He had not as yet come upon the earth. Knowing the extent to which each one loved himself, He was not able to ask of His creatures a greater love than this for one’s neighbor. But when Jesus gave His Apostles a new commandment, HIS OWN COMMANDMENT, as He calls it later on, it is no longer a question of loving one’s neighbor as oneself but of loving him as He, Jesus, has loved him, and will love them to the consummation of the ages…MY VOCATION IS TO LOVE”.
(Emphasis in the original text)
-St. Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church
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“Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Love.
Heaven and earth are full of Your glory!
Hosanna in the highest!
