Fr Michael Doody

Assistant Priest, Parish of Mary, Mother of God, Bradford

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints—they are your public. (St John Vianney)

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened." - Michel de Montaigne #liveinthepresentmoment

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

"The blossoms, if we may call them that, of faith and piety do not grow in the desert places of a memory-less catechesis" CT 55

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible. #CSLewis

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Jack Outside the Box – Celebrating C.S.Lewis http://t.co/iiV93oj4lR via @dlongenecker1

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This saintly girl is inspirational: http://t.co/Bw2DHI5ZwX
"Jesus, thank you for coming to me in the Eucharist" - Margaret Leo

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

Words of Jesus to Blessed Angela di Foligno: "My love for you has not been a hoax...I am more present to you than you are to yourself"

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

Only someone who has encountered mercy, who has been caressed by the tenderness of mercy, is happy and comfortable with the Lord. (Pope F.)

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

So do not let anxiety sabotage your search for God. Anxiety is the enemy of a soul's peace. It cannot come from God. (St Francis de Sales)

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

You know well that when you search for something too anxiously you can come upon it a hundred times without ever seeing it...

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbour; act as if you did. (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Bk 3, Ch.9)

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

'Die before you die. There is no chance after' (C.S. Lewis,Till We have faces)

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

..the darkness, received into the heart of the deity, is there swallowed up. Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

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@nicolacouttie Ok.

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything (Pope Benedict XVI, Inaugural homily, 2005)

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

The good life http://t.co/4WupRCdN via @sharethis

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell-Thomas Merton

[Fr Michael Doody @mikedood]

"If your moral ideas can be truer, and those of the Nazis less true, there must be something-some Real Morality-for them to be true about."