Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB

Catholic, Benedictine Monk, Author, and Trauma Chaplain who sits at many tables and serves a multitude of souls (Opinions are my own).

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

Psalm 119:105

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

A fool's lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.

Proverbs 18:6

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

By day the Lord commands His steadfast love; and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
— Psalm 42:8

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My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
— Isaiah 32:18

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

"We begin by praying, "Our Father, " but we press on, we persevere, by lovingly accepting and doing the will of God. Again, it is this union of wills that perfects us as children of God. And such a divine relation is, in a sense, exactly what we're praying for when we say, "Thy will be done." For, in the words of Saint Paul, "this is the will of God, your sancification"(1 Thess. 4:3). God's will means more for us than merely following the law. The commandments express His will, but they do not exhaust it. His will for us is much greater. It's nothing short of a sharing in His own life, which is the deepest freedom we can know." —Scott Hahn

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

“Sheltered under the name of Jesus Christ, I do not fear these pains, for they do not last long.”

— St. Lawrence

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

"Why does God, who is love, keep us waiting? Because He is love, and seeks love. Love that does not know how to wait is not love. To love is to give ourselves. Not only for a fraction of a lifetime, nor with a part of its strength: love is, and seeks, the total gift of self. Love is based on esteem.

We love only what we value and admire. We love only the "good". What is too easily and too quickly come by does not attract deep souls. It becomes a superficial good, which cannot satisfy the rich capacity of their nature."

—Dom Augustin Guillerand, Carthusian Monk

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“Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God.”

— St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

"Amidst this cloud of witnesses born from faith, none shines brighter or offers us more in Jesus Christ than the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of God and the first Christian disciple. As the Lord Jesus hung on the cross, dying of excruciating suffocation, he nevertheless said to St. John and to all Christians, "Behold, your mother!" (Jn 19:27). Always an advocate for believers, Mary perpetually points us to her divine Son. When praised by Elizabeth, she turned the praise to God and exclaimed: "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my savior" (Lk 1:46-47). At the wedding feast of Cana, she encouraged the Lord Jesus to work his first public miracle and to initiate his ministry. AT Cana, she said to the servants, as she says to us now: "Do whatever he tells you" (Jn:2:5). At Pentecost, she was present as the Holy Spirit was sent upon the apostles and they began to preach the Gospel (Acts 1:14). She was and is always the mother of faith and of the Church."

—Fr. Jeffrey Kirby

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

“These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
— Revelation 7:14

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

"The name by which this most blessed spiritual being is honored, Michael, means "Who is like God?" for when Lucifer, impelled by pride and envy against God, wished to become like Him, this most powerful archangel, burning with ardent zeal and indignant at the offense given to the Most High, exclaimed, "Who is like God?" By this, he meant, "Who is so arrogant and bold that he should dare to compare himself to God?" By asking this rhetorical question, he expressed the manifest and holy truth that there is no created being, either in heaven or anywhere else in the entire universe, who can rival the one, supreme God."

—St. Aloysius Gonzaga

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.”
— St. James

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

By day the Lord commands His steadfast love; and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
— Psalm 42:8

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

"God is love. He loves and wants to be loved; it is the basic law of His being. To realize this is to find the basic solution to all our problems. A soul that tends towards Him cannot tire Him. God is a Father, a friend, a judge. But he is a father whose love is boundless, and whose power is as great as His love. He is a friend whose friendship knows no change, and is at the mercy of all our needs. He is a judge, but always just, always moved by our appeals and quick to answer them." —Dom Augustin Guillerand

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

“Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.”
— Romans 5:9

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
— Isaiah 32:18

[Fr. John Kelmy Pax OSB @frjohnpax]

“We are deservedly to blame if we encourage error by silence. Therefore, rebuke these people. Restrain their liberty of preaching.”
— Pope St. Celestine I

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“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Psalm 118:24

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But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2 Kings 17:39

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Praise Him, sun and moon, praise Him, all you shining stars!
— Psalm 148:3