What Makes the Religious So Happy?
‘I think it’s because our work, regardless of what ministry, is specifically connected with eternal values,’ Sister Carolyn Martin told the Register. ‘Our employer is God himself.’
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‘The Catholic Church Is Right’: Father Spitzer Talks God’s Plan When the World Offers Nothingburgers
‘The Christian notion of love is the only way that society is going to survive…’
Father Spitzer: ‘Happiness Begins by Looking for the Good News’
Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer has spent time reflecting and studying human happiness, sharing his results in both a book and in numerous seminars that he has given across the United States.
Happiness Begins When the Ego Dies
‘The reason most people are not happy,’ says Venerable Fulton Sheen, ‘is because they want to be happy in their own way and without any purchase price.’
In Exitu Israel: Freedom and Happiness
Without true freedom, there can be no happiness, because happiness is the exercise of our freedom to love what our Beloved loves.
![Nicolas Poussin, “Sts. Peter and John Healing the Lame Man,” 1655 — “I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and walk.” ... He leaped up, stood, and walked around, and went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God.” [Acts 3:6, 8].](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20211021011024_8ce8bd7ddbdbd774eb57a2fd8f469c86f2cca8a73f76eede23ede227115f9b5c.jpg "Nicolas Poussin, “Sts. Peter and John Healing the Lame Man,” 1655 — “I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and walk.” ... He leaped up, stood, and walked around, and went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God.” [Acts 3:6, 8].")
No Reason for Being Sad
“For man was made an intelligent and free member of society by God who created him, but even more important, he is called as a son to commune with God and share in his happiness.” (Gaudium et Spes, No. 21)
God Made You For Happiness in Heaven, Not Comfort on Earth
God wants happiness on a personal basis (him and you) that does not end. That’s real happiness.
How Happiness Happens
Real happiness depends on first looking for God, who alone can make us happy.
Seeking Happiness At All Costs Will Cost You Everything
“The Beatitudes respond to the natural desire for happiness. This desire is of divine origin: God has placed it in the human heart in order to draw man to the One who alone can fulfill it.” (CCC 1718)
St. John Henry Newman on Heaven, Happiness and Holiness
Are you prepared to be glad in paradise?
