🧵My book, God Love the Autistic Mind is coming out tomorrow with @PBMPublishing. I hope it helps a lot of autistics and those who love us. Here's how to order it (print or digital). This will be a thread of reviews or comments for anyone interested. 1/ frmatthewlc.com/2022/04/orde…

God created us to receive his mercy. We should not be afraid of receiving his mercy, such as in confession.

In this life, there will be suffering. The question is what we make of suffering. Uniting our suffering to Jesus, transforms our suffering to be life-giving.

Union with God is difficult but worth it.

When we truly encounter God in prayer, we need to stop, rest, & contemplate his goodness.

"You cannot know people unless you love them. You cannot know a community created by God unless you love it." -Fr. Emile Briere

"For those who have eyes to see, God is everywhere inserted into His material creation & working to bring it into its fulfillment unto His glory & the sharing of His own life & happiness with His human creatures." -Fr. George Malony, SJ

Mary wants to bring forth Jesus' life in each of us... Trust her to do so.

"Prayer & work are inseparable, & the duty of the moment is the duty of God" -Catherine Doherty

Knowledge alone cannot penetrate God. Even adding human love & hope, God remains impenetrable. It is only through faith & divine love we can see him as he is.

"Faith walks simply childlike, between the darkness of human life & the hope of what is to come." -Catherine Doherty

"The immediate reality of the Church is expressed & fulfilled in the Holy Eucharist where the love & life of God are poured upon creation, & where our union with God is enacted & made manifest in a bodily embrace." -Archbishop Joseph Raya

The road can be dark & confusing, but keeping our eyes set on Jesus helps us see the way through.

"Prayer is that hunger for union that never lets go of us." -Catherine Doherty

The pleasure from sin is fleeting while the pleasure from sanctity lasts into eternity.

"The confessor is not a judge in the legal sense of the word. Rather, he is a witness, a healer, a counselor." -Archbishop Joseph Raya

Jesus said, "learn from me, for I am meek & humble of heart." (Matthew 11:29) Do we really learn this from Jesus? Does this really impact how we live our lives?

We need to keep seeking God's will in our lives. We discern our vocation writ large, such as which community to join or who to marry, but we need tos eek to obey in the little things too.

"Love is important not as one of our feelings, but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very center of our personal lives." -Vladimir Solovyov

WordPress comment spam is getting trickier, likely with AI. This comment on my sensory-friendly Mass directory frmatthewlc.com/blog/2022/02… looks good until I see the profile is advertising a scammy website.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Martin Luther King Jr.