A Mission of St. John the Baptist Parish
411 FLorence St, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
411 FLorence St, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Quotes that inspire our mission…
“The frontier (of mission) now is the city, and it is there that the new missionary heroism must shine no less brightly than it did in other ways in the past… This will depend in large part upon the energy and dedication of urban lay missionaries, but they in turn will need the service of truly zealous priests who are themselves fired with the missionary spirit…”
- Pope John Paul II
"Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance."
-Mother Teresa
“The fruit of silence is prayer.
The fruit of prayer is faith.
The fruit of faith is love.
The fruit of love is service.
The fruit of service is peace.”
- Mother Teresa
"Do not be afraid to say yes to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will, giving yourself completely to the pursuit of holiness and using your talents in service of others..."
- Pope Benedict XVI
"Do not be afraid to go out on the streets and in public places, like the first apostles who preached Christ and the good news of salvation in the squares of the cities, towns and villages. It is time to preach it from the rooftops."
- Pope John Paul II
"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."
- Dorothy Day
"I wish to invite the Church to renew her missionary commitment… For missionary activity renews the Church, revitalizes faith and Christian identity, and offers fresh enthusiasm and new incentive. Faith is strengthened when it is given to others."
- Pope John Paul II
“The Church is each one of us: you, I. We are the ones who have to know, love, and put ourselves at the service of the poorest.”
-Mother Teresa
“Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.”
-Benedict XVI
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always easy to penetrate. The real labor is to remember to attend. In fact to come awake. Still more to remain awake.”
- C.S. Lewis
"Out of his solitude Jesus reached out his caring hand to the people in need... Jesus indeed cared. Being pragmatists we say: "That is obvious: he fed the hungry, made the blind see, the deaf hear, the crippled walk and the dead live. He indeed cared." But by being surprised by all the remarkable things he did, we forget that Jesus did not give food to the many without having received some loaves and fishes from a stranger in the crowd; that he did not return the boy of Nain to his widowed mother without having felt her sorrow, that he did not raise Lazarus from the grave without tears and a sigh of distress that came straight from the heart. What we see, and like to see, is cure and change. But what we do not see and do not want to see is care, the participation in the pain, the solidarity in the suffering, the sharing in the experience of brokenness.
- Henri Nouwen
“I have the sense that the secret of Jesus’ ministry is hidden in that lonely place where he went to pray, early in the morning, long before dawn. In the lonely place Jesus finds the courage to follow God’s will and not his own; to speak God’s words and not his own; to do God’s work and not his own. He reminds us constantly: “I can do nothing by myself…my aim is to do not my own will, but the will of him who sent me” (Jn 5:30) The careful balance between silence and words, withdrawal and involvement, distance and closeness, solitude and community forms the basis of the Christian life…”
-Henri Nouwen
“The vocation to love, understood as a true openness to our fellow human beings and solidarity with them, is the most basic of all vocations. It is the origin of all vocations in life.”
- Pope John Paul II
“Prayer not only opens us up to a meeting with the Most High but also disposes us to a meeting with our neighbor, helping us to establish with everyone, without discrimination, relationships of respect, understanding, esteem, and love.”
- Pope John Paul II
“We can no longer expect people to come to our communities spontaneously: there must be instead a new missionary outreach in the cities, with dedicated men and women, and young people, going forth in Christ's name to invite people into the community of the Church.”
- Pope John Paul II
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
- C.S. Lewis
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved…”
- Mother Teresa
“The frontier (of mission) now is the city, and it is there that the new missionary heroism must shine no less brightly than it did in other ways in the past… This will depend in large part upon the energy and dedication of urban lay missionaries, but they in turn will need the service of truly zealous priests who are themselves fired with the missionary spirit…”
- Pope John Paul II
"Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance."
-Mother Teresa
“The fruit of silence is prayer.
The fruit of prayer is faith.
The fruit of faith is love.
The fruit of love is service.
The fruit of service is peace.”
- Mother Teresa
"Do not be afraid to say yes to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will, giving yourself completely to the pursuit of holiness and using your talents in service of others..."
- Pope Benedict XVI
"Do not be afraid to go out on the streets and in public places, like the first apostles who preached Christ and the good news of salvation in the squares of the cities, towns and villages. It is time to preach it from the rooftops."
- Pope John Paul II
"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."
- Dorothy Day
"I wish to invite the Church to renew her missionary commitment… For missionary activity renews the Church, revitalizes faith and Christian identity, and offers fresh enthusiasm and new incentive. Faith is strengthened when it is given to others."
- Pope John Paul II
“The Church is each one of us: you, I. We are the ones who have to know, love, and put ourselves at the service of the poorest.”
-Mother Teresa
“Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.”
-Benedict XVI
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always easy to penetrate. The real labor is to remember to attend. In fact to come awake. Still more to remain awake.”
- C.S. Lewis
"Out of his solitude Jesus reached out his caring hand to the people in need... Jesus indeed cared. Being pragmatists we say: "That is obvious: he fed the hungry, made the blind see, the deaf hear, the crippled walk and the dead live. He indeed cared." But by being surprised by all the remarkable things he did, we forget that Jesus did not give food to the many without having received some loaves and fishes from a stranger in the crowd; that he did not return the boy of Nain to his widowed mother without having felt her sorrow, that he did not raise Lazarus from the grave without tears and a sigh of distress that came straight from the heart. What we see, and like to see, is cure and change. But what we do not see and do not want to see is care, the participation in the pain, the solidarity in the suffering, the sharing in the experience of brokenness.
- Henri Nouwen
“I have the sense that the secret of Jesus’ ministry is hidden in that lonely place where he went to pray, early in the morning, long before dawn. In the lonely place Jesus finds the courage to follow God’s will and not his own; to speak God’s words and not his own; to do God’s work and not his own. He reminds us constantly: “I can do nothing by myself…my aim is to do not my own will, but the will of him who sent me” (Jn 5:30) The careful balance between silence and words, withdrawal and involvement, distance and closeness, solitude and community forms the basis of the Christian life…”
-Henri Nouwen
“The vocation to love, understood as a true openness to our fellow human beings and solidarity with them, is the most basic of all vocations. It is the origin of all vocations in life.”
- Pope John Paul II
“Prayer not only opens us up to a meeting with the Most High but also disposes us to a meeting with our neighbor, helping us to establish with everyone, without discrimination, relationships of respect, understanding, esteem, and love.”
- Pope John Paul II
“We can no longer expect people to come to our communities spontaneously: there must be instead a new missionary outreach in the cities, with dedicated men and women, and young people, going forth in Christ's name to invite people into the community of the Church.”
- Pope John Paul II
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
- C.S. Lewis
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved…”
- Mother Teresa
QUOTES
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has
anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. . . liberty
to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the
oppressed go free..." (Lk 4:18)
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