“It seems to me that there is no dwelling place comparable to the one to which you aspire — that of peace and quiet.”   - St. Vincent de Paul

"The Sacraments which Our Lord instituted would not have saved us without the Holy Spirit. Even the death of Our Lord would have been useless to us without Him. Therefore Our Lord said to His Apostles, “It is good for you that I should go away; for if I did not go, the Consoler would not come.” The descent of the Holy Spirit was required, to render fruitful that harvest of graces. It is like a grain of wheat – you cast it into the ground; yes, but it must have sun and rain to make it grow and come into ear. We should say every morning, “O God, send me Your Spirit to teach me what I am and what You are.”    - St John Vianney.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives   - Pope St. John Paul II

"Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle."   -St. Josemaria Escriva

It is better to be the child of God than king of the world.     - St. Aloysius Gonzaga

It would be a good exchange to give up everything for the enjoyment of everlasting abundance.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 2 : 2

“ Oh God!, let yourself always be felt, more and more, by my poor heart, and accomplish in me the work you have begun. I hear an interior voice which assiduously says to me: Sanctify yourself and others. Well, my dearest, I want to do this, but I don't know where to begin. Help me, you also. I know that Jesus is very fond of you, and you deserve this. Therefore, speak to Him for me, that He might grant me the grace of making me a less unworthy son of Saint Francis, so that I can be an example to my confrères, in order that fervor might continue to grow more and more within me, making me a perfect Capuchin.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcuna

Today, in the course of a long conversation, the Lord said to me, How very much I desire the salvation of souls! My dearest secretary, write that I want to pour out My divine life into human souls and sanctify them, if only they were willing to accept My grace. The greatest sinners would achieve great sanctity, if only they would trust in My mercy. The very inner depths of My being are filled to overflowing with mercy, and it is being poured out upon all I have created. My delight is to act in a human soul and to fill it with My mercy and to justify it. My kingdom on earth is My life in the human soul. Write, My secretary, that I Myself am the spiritual guide of souls – and I guide them indirectly through the priest, and lead each one to sanctity by a road known to Me alone.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1784)

“Through you, Most Holy Lady, all glory, honor, and holiness vouchsafed to the human race from Adam to the last ages has been granted, is being granted, will be granted to apostles, prophets, Martyrs, and all the just and humble of heart.”   - St. Ephrem

“The Descent of the Holy Ghost Upon the Apostles.  Many have wished that Our Blessed Lord had remained on earth, that we might have heard His voice, seen His compassionate eyes, and brought our children to be blessed by His hands.  But He said ‘I can say truly that it is better for you I should go away; He who is to befriend you will not come to you unless I do go, but if only I make my way there, I will send Him to you.’  If our Lord remained on earth, He would have been only a symbol to be copied – not a life to be lived.  By returning to his heavenly Father, He could then send both from the Father and Himself the Holy Spirit that would make Him live on earth in His new Body, which is the Church.  The human body is made up of millions of cells, and yet is one because vivified by one soul, presided over by a visible head, and governed by an invisible mind.  So on Pentecost, the Apostles, who were like the cells of a body, became Christ’s Mystical Body, because vivified by His Holy Spirit, governed by one visible head, Peter, and presided over by one invisible head, Christ in heaven.  Our glorious Church is not an organization, but an organism.  As our Lord once thought, governed, and sanctified through a human body, which He took from the womb of His blessed Mother, so now he teaches, governs, and sanctifies through his Mystical Body, the Church, which He took from the womb of humanity overshadowed by His Holy Spirit.  Christ was infallible when He talked through a human body; He is still infallible when he teaches through a mystical Body.  Christ sanctified when he forgave sins with human lips; He sanctifies still when he forgives sins through the power of His priests.  Christ governed through His human Body, and he governs still.  ‘He that heareth you, heareth Me.’  As a drop of blood can live in the body, but the drop of blood cannot live apart from the body, so neither can any of us live the fullness of the Christ Life except in His Mystical Body, the Church.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Fifteen Mysteries)

“Wretch that I am! Oh, most unhappy! Why did I not know my Lord sooner? Why was I so deaf to His calls!?”    St. Camillus de Lellis (1550 - 1614)

“Blessed the one who, like one unwise, does not judge his neighbour, but as understanding and spiritual has struggled to throw the plank out of his own eye.”   - St. Ephrem of Syria

Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses.   - St. Philip Neri

“Grace has its moments. Let us abandon ourselves to the providence of God and be very careful not to run ahead of it.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Perfect resignation. This is the desire of my heart. I am amazed at the love with which Jesus has ever conducted me to where I was always best off, and with which He has given me whatever was proper for me and best for my condition.”   - St. Peter Julian Eymard (1811 – 1868)

"It is an insult to the Holy Name and a disgrace to the Christian Faith that ... the Saracen priests ... meet to adore the infidel Mahomet, loudly invoke and extol his name each day ... and there make public declarations in his honor. ... This brings disrepute on our Faith and gives great scandal to the faithful. These practices cannot be tolerated any further without displeasing the Divine Majesty. We therefore ... enjoin on Catholic princes, one and all, ... to forbid expressly the public invocation of the sacrilegious name of Mahomet."    - Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312

“That which I fear is not the Commune of Paris - no - that which I fear is liberal Catholicism. . . I have said so more than forty times, and I repeat it to you now, through the love that I bear you. The real scourge of France is Liberal Catholicism, which endeavors to unite two principles as repugnant to each other as fire and water.”   -  Pope Bl. Pius IX (1792 - 1878)

Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all other spiritual exercises of the day.    - St. Alphonsus Liquori

“A righteous person is a victim and his life a continual sacrifice. For love of Jesus, I will fight against my own desires even in the most insignificant matters.”   - St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844 - 1879)

When I began to try to obey the comnand：to reject and resist these favors, there was a much greater increase in them.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 29 : 7

“With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary."   - Saint Ildephonsus

"Know this, My daughter: if you strive for perfection you will sanctify many souls; and if you do not strive for sanctity, by the same token, many souls will remain imperfect. Know that their perfection will depend on your perfection, and the greater part of the responsibility for these souls will fall on you."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary 1165)

“Always be faithful to God in observing the promises you made Him, and pay no attention to the mocking of the foolish. Know that the saints never payed attention to the world and the worldly, and they placed the world and its maxims under their feet.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Assuming a human nature from the Blessed Mother, the procession of Divine Life moved on the earth in the Person of Jesus Christ and finally wound its way up the hill of Calvary, and on Good Friday a soldier struck a lance into the side of that Sacred Humanity and blood and water poured forth: blood the price of our Redemption, and water the symbol of our regeneration. The Son sent by His Father now returns to the Father, and from the Eternal Godhead the procession of life moves on as the Father and the Son send their Holy Spirit full of Truth and Love to the Mystical Body on the day of Pentecost. Striking that Mystical Body as the brightness of the sun striking a prism splits up into the seven rays of the spectrum. The procession of Divine Life broke up into the seven sacraments to flood the members of that Body with Divine Life for the seven states from the cradle to the grave. The procession of Life moves on as Christ once more walks the earth in His Mystical Body, the Church."    Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"The world being unworthy to receive the son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his son to Mary for the world to receive him from her."   - St. Augustine

“Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.”   - St. Peter Julian Eymard

Practice self-observation. And if you want to benefit yourself and your fellow men, look at your own faults and not those of others. The Lord tells us "Judge not, that ye be not judged," condemn not that ye be not condemned. And the Apostle Paul says: "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant   St. Arsenios of Paros

“Let Heaven sustain me in its embrace, because I am honored above it. For heaven was not Thy mother, but Thou hast made it Thy throne. How much more honorable and venerable than the throne of a king is her mother.”   - St. Ephrem the Syrian

He showed me His wounds in order to encourage me when I was suffering tribulation.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 29 : 4

"Today, the Lord came to me and said, My daughter, help Me to save souls. You will go to a dying sinner, and you will continue to recite the Chaplet, and in this way you will obtain for him trust in My mercy, for he is already in despair."
Suddenly, I found myself in a strange cottage where an elderly man was dying amidst great torments. All about the bed was a multitude of demons and the family, who were crying. When I began to pray, the spirits of darkness fled, with hissing and threats directed at me. The soul became calm and, filled with trust, rested in the Lord.  At the same moment, I found myself again in my own room. How this happens... I do not know."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary 1797 & 1798)

“ Let us become saints so that after having been together on earth we will be together forever in Heaven.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Each heart that beats now and that will beat on earth until the end of the world must be the 'prey' of the Immaculata. This is the purpose of the Knights. And we must do this for her with a sense of great urgency."    - St. Maximilian Kolbe

“After a succession of hot, sultry days in the summer, we sense there must be a storm before the cool days come back again.  Similarly, in these days of confusion, there is an intuition of impending catastrophe, a feeling that some immense preternatural disturbance must bring the evil of the world to ruins before we can be set free again.  As DeGoncourt told Berthelot, who had boasted of the future destructiveness of war through physics: ‘When that day comes, God as a night-watchman will come down from Heaven, rattling His keys, saying, Gentleman! It is closing time!”    - Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Peace of Soul)

"To attain heaven it's necessary to be detached from what is earthly”   St. Teresa of the Andes

“I am asking Our Lord that we may die to ourselves in order to rise with him. May he be the joy of your heart, the end and soul of your actions, and your glory in heaven.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer, we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun."    - St. John Marie Vianney.

“The Church draws her life from the Eucharist. This truth does not simply express a daily experience of faith, but recapitulates the heart of the mystery of the Church.”   - Pope St. John Paul II

If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.   St. Teresa of Calcutta

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"I wish to tell everyone of the vanity, of the nothingness of what passes, unless it is done for God."    St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD

The Lord desires nothing else than humility and confusion, and we accept what is given and praise the one who gives it.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 29 : 2

“ Have you ever seen a field of fully ripened grain? You will see that some ears are tall and vigorous; while others are bent to the ground. Try to take the tall one, the most vain, you will see that it is empty; if instead you take the low ones, the most humble, these are laden with grain. From this you can deduce that vanity is empty.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over its enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory."    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA    (Diary, 48)

"Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!"   - St. Josemaría Escrivá

“Calvinism held that a man was determined to heaven or hell independent of his merits.  As God decreed, so his destiny was fixed regardless of whether he lived well or badly.  Under such a fatalism, man was not free to be a saint or to be a devil. God made him what he is, not himself.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Freedom Under God)

“Courage gentlemen! It is God Himself who has established you in the place and duty where you are. If His glory is your goal, what can you fear, or rather, for what should you not hope?”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"The King of Heaven deigned to be born in a stable, because He came to destroy pride, the cause of man's ruin."   - St. Alphonsus Liguori

“I'm always happy, for I always manage in the midst of the tempest to preserve interior peace.”   St. Therese of Lisieux (1873.-1897)

“We ought to hate no one, for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbours.”   St. Philip Neri (1515-1595)

“Those who do not pray are bent down towards the ground like moles seeking a hole to hide in. They are earthy, besotted.”   - St. Jean-Marie Vianney

Please the Lord that I may have served His Majesty somewhat through this trial ..... and that it was for my greater good.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 28 : 18

“ Science, my son, for all its greatness is nevertheless a small thing; and less than nothing compared to the formidable mystery of the Divinity. You must take another road. Cleanse your heart of every earthly passion, humble yourself in the dust and pray! In this way you will certainly find God, who will give you peace and serenity in this life and eternal beatitude in the next.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

Jesus: My daughter, do you think you have written enough about My mercy? What you have written is but a drop compared to the ocean. I am Love and Mercy Itself. There is no misery that could be a match for My mercy, neither will misery exhaust it, because as it is being granted – it increases. The soul that trusts in My mercy is most fortunate, because I Myself take care of it.    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1273)

“The Rosary is the prayer that touches most the heart of the Mother of God. If you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the Family Rosary."   - Pope St. Pius X

“In the eyes of God there is nothing to be ashamed of when the soul clothes the body, but there is a great deal to be ashamed of when the body is put before the soul.  That is why the body has to be covered and hidden; like a murderer concealing his victim, we try to hide our crime.”    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life is Worth Living)

"And so now with all those who see the Blessed Sacrament, sanctified by Our Lord's words on the altar, through the hands of the priest, in the form of bread and wine: if they do not see and believe, as the spirit and the Divine nature demand that it is truly the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, they stand condemned. For it is the Most High who bears witness to it. He says, ‘This is My Body, and the Blood of the New Testament’ (Mk, 14, 22-24) and, ‘He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, has life everlasting.’”    - (Jn. 6, 55) - from the writings of St. Francis of Assisi on The Blessed Sacrament

“Our Lord has no use for our knowledge or our good works if He does not possess our heart; and even this heart He does not wish if we do not give it to Him when He asks.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"We should perform our penance overwhelmed with joy at being able to satisfy God, whom we have offended, and at finding such an easy means of effacing our sins which should have earned eternal sufferings for us."   - St. John Vianney.

“Even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God.”    -St. Martin de Porres

“I'm always happy, for I always manage in the midst of the tempest to preserve interior peace.”    St. Therese of Lisieux (1873.-1897)

With the eyes of the soul we see the excellence, beauty, and glory of the most holy humanity    St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Book of Her Life  - chapter 28 : 9

“ I confess in the first place, that for me it is a great misfortune to be unable to express and pour out this ever-active volcano which burns me up, and which Jesus has placed in this very small heart. It can all be summed up as follows: I am consumed by love for God and love for my neighbor.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“At the hour of death, I defend as My own glory every soul that will say this chaplet; or when others say it for a dying person, the indulgence is the same.”    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 811

“But the power of Mary over all the devils will especially shine forth in the latter times, when Satan will lay his snares against her heel: that is to say, her humble servants and her poor children, whom she will raise up to make war against him. They shall be little and poor in the world’s esteem, and abased before all like the heel, trodden underfoot and persecuted as the heel is by the other members of the body. But in return for this they shall be rich in the grace of God, which Mary shall distribute to them abundantly. They shall be great and exalted before God in sanctity, superior to all other creatures by their lively zeal, and so well sustained with God’s assistance that, with the humility of their heel, in union with Mary, they shall crush the head of the devil and cause Jesus Christ to triumph.”   - Saint Louis de Montfort

“The supreme business of a foreign missionary society is to put itself out of business as soon as possible.  Since the aim of the missions is the establishment of the Church through the native clergy, foreign missionaries should strive to be self-liquidating.  In theory, a day ought to come when the whole world would have had Christ preached to it and Africa, India, Japan, and Mongolia should have their own hierarchy, their own clergy, and be as free from the need of missionary imports as is the United States today.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Missions and the World in Crisis)

“How good God is to those who detach themselves from the affections of the world to unite themselves to Him.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary."   -St. Bonaventure

"In ancient times, our forefathers sowed the seeds of the wheat of faith in that field which is the Church. It would be quite unjust and improper if we, their descendents, gathered, instead of the genuine truth of wheat, the false tares of error. On the contrary, it is logically correct that the beginning and the end be in agreement, that we reap from the planting of the wheat of doctrine the harvest of the wheat of dogma. In this way, none of the Characteristics of the seed is changed, although something evolved in the course of time from those first seeds and has now expanded under careful cultivation. What may be added is merely appearance, beauty, and distinction, but the proper nature of each kind remains."   St. Vincent of Lerins   +450

"I will love God alone and will not have the misfortune of attaching myself to creatures, now that my heart perceives what he has in store for those who love him."   -St. Therese of Lisieux

"The soul feels a strange delight in the breathing of the Holy Spirit... in which it is sovereignly glorified and taken with love."    St. John of the Cross

Forgotten the great perfection and lofty impulses of love the saints experienced that I think this mentality causes more harm and misfortune in this troubled  time we live in than the scandals caused by religious.   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Book of Her Life - chapter 27 : 15

"If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy"    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1317)

“Do the penance of remembering, with sorrow, your offenses committed against God; the penance of being constantly good, the penance of fighting against your defects.”   St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

"Let those, therefore, who deny that the Son is by nature from the Father and proper to his essence deny also that he took true human flesh from the ever-virgin Mary."   - St. Athanasius

“Some things in life are too beautiful to be forgotten.  These things may be what men do in this world; they may even be their manner of passing from it.  For example, almost every country has instituted a memorial day to recall the supreme sacrifice its patriots have made in defense of country and civilization.  Because life was the most precious thing they could give, the living cannot forget their gift.  They themselves could not ask for any such memorial, nor could they institute it, that was left to their survivors.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (This is the Mass)

“Usually, God wills to save men [and women] through men; Our Lord, himself, became man to save all.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"How sweet and full of comfort are the moments spent before the Blessed Sacrament! Are you in trouble? Come and throw yourself at his feet." - St John  Vianney.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope, there is no dark without dawn; nor storm with haven.   -Pope St.John Paul II

““Nobody ought to flatter himself with undue applause over anything that a sinner can do. A sinner can fast, pray, weep, mortify his flesh. But this he cannot do: remain loyal to his Lord”   - St. Francis of Assisi

A praise of glory is a soul of silence that remains like a lyre under the mysterious touch of the Holy Spirit so that He may draw from it divine harmonies; it knows that suffering is a string that produces still more beautiful sounds; so it loves to see this string on its instrument that it may more delightfully move the Heart of its God.   - St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

What accidental glory and what happiness will be a lot of the blessed one day see that....how rich they find they are, they who have left all riches for Christ!   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 27  : 14

"My daughter, know that My Heart is mercy itself. From this sea of mercy, graces flow out upon the whole world. No soul that has approached Me has ever gone away unconsoled. All misery gets buried in the depths of My mercy, and every saving and sanctifying grace flows from this fountain..."    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary,  1777).

“ Do the penance of remembering, with sorrow, your offenses committed against God; the penance of being constantly good, the penance of fighting against your defects.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary."   - St. Thomas Aquinas

"God solicits each of us by a dialogue no other soul can hear. His action on the soul is always for us alone. He sends no circular letters, uses no party lines. He calls His sheep by name; He leaves the 99 that are safe to find the one that is lost. Once the soul becomes conscious of the Divine Presence it whispers to itself: this is a message sent to me and to no one else.    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Lift up Your Heart)

"The Power of the priest is the power of the divine person, for the transubstantiation of the bread, requires as much power as the creation of the world."   - St Bernardine of Siena (1380-1444)

“ By union and counsel we can achieve anything.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

PURITY OF MIND AND UNITY OF PURPOSE

A MAN is raised up from the earth by two wings -- simplicity and purity. There must be simplicity in his intention and purity in his desires. Simplicity leads to God, purity embraces and enjoys Him.

If your heart is free from ill-ordered affection, no good deed will be difficult for you. If you aim at and seek after nothing but the pleasure of God and the welfare of your neighbor, you will enjoy freedom within.

If your heart were right, then every created thing would be a mirror of life for you and a book of holy teaching, for there is no creature so small and worthless that it does not show forth the goodness of God. If inwardly you were good and pure, you would see all things clearly and understand them rightly, for a pure heart penetrates to heaven and hell, and as a man is within, so he judges what is without. If there be joy in the world, the pure of heart certainly possess it; and if there be anguish and affliction anywhere, an evil conscience knows it too well.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man. When a man begins to grow lax, he fears a little toil and welcomes external comfort, but when he begins perfectly to conquer himself and to walk bravely in the ways of God, then he thinks those things less difficult which he thought so hard before.

The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
Book 2: The Fourth Chapter

“When we leave the holy banquet, we are as happy as the Wise Men would have been, if they could have carried away the Infant Jesus.”    - St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney, Cure d’Ars

"It's+ is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. "   - St. Francis of Assisi

There is also another way in which God teaches the soul and speaks of it, different from the manner of speaking described previously. It is a language that belongs so to heaven   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Book of Her Life -  chapter27: 6

"At three o’clock, implore My mercy, especially for sinners; and, if only for a brief moment, immerse yourself in My Passion, particularly in My abandonment at the moment of agony"   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1320).

“After Jesus Christ's ascension to Heaven, Mary longed continually with burning desire to be reunited with Him. To be without her divine Son was a very harsh exile. Those years of separation from Him were for her a most slow and painful martyrdom of love that consumed her slowly.”   St. Padre Pio of  Pietrelcina

"I am not only the Queen of Heaven, but also the Mother of Mercy."   - Our Lady to Saint Faustina

“Minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live.  They no longer have difficulty with the Creed, but with her Commandments, they remain outside her saving waters, not because they cannot accept the doctrine of Three Persons in One God, but because they cannot accept the moral of two persons in one flesh; not because Infallibility is too complex, but because the veto on Birth Control is too hard; not because the Eucharist is too sublime, but because Penance is too exacting.  Briefly, the heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, it is the heresy of action.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Communism and the Conscience of the West)

“Talk to the Three Persons, to God the Father, to God the Son, to God the Holy Spirit. And so as to reach the Blessed Trinity, go through Mary.”    (St. Josemaría Escrivá, The Forge, # 543)

“One can never have too great a supply of patience and mild persuasion.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"Consider now my dear brethren, the good works you have done. Have you done them for God alone, so that there was nothing worldly in them and so that you had no regrets when people sometimes proved ungrateful? Have you ever congratulated yourselves inwardly on the good you have done your neighbour? Because if you have done that, either you have done nothing or you may as well count it as nothing, since you have already lost your reward for it. Do you know, my dear brethren, the decision you have to make? If you have done nothing, or if what you have done has been fruitless because it was done for a human motive, begin immediately to do good works so that at death you will be able to find something to offer to Jesus Christ in order that He may give you eternal life."    - St John Vianney.

“Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. It appears when we speak and walk. It cannot be kept closed inside us. It reacts outside. Joy is very infectious.”    - St. Teresa of Calcutta

"No prayers are so acceptable to God as those which we offer Him after Communion."   - St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)

Behold, these are not the times to believe everyone; believe only those who you see are walking in conformity with Christ's life.   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 21 : 10

" Be at peace... it is precisely through such misery that I want to show the power of My mercy."    WIRDS IF HESUS TI ST. FAUSTINA     (Diary, 133)

“ You are not unaware of the fact that I desire to die and to love God; either death or love, given that life without this love is worse than death. Oh my daughters, help me! I am dying and in agony at all times. Everything seems to be a dream to me, and I don't know where I am wandering. Dear God! when will the time come when I, too, can sing: "This is my rest, oh God, forever"?”    St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“Do not be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her enough. And Jesus will be very happy, because the Blessed Virgin is His Mother.”   - St. Thérèse of Lisieux

“Gold that is hoarded makes one a miser.  Knowledge that is selfishly possessed makes one proud.  Flesh that is too cared for turns into lust.  It is the things that are spent, wasted for God’s sake that become remembered through history. “    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Treasured Love Story)

“Although you do not have so many talents, Our Lord will increase them for you, if He chooses.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"Although Mary knew that God had raised her to the most supreme of all honours--that of being the Mother of God--nevertheless she regarded herself as the least of all creatures."    - St John Vianney.

“A treasure is secure so long as it remains concealed; but when once disclosed, and laid open to every bold invader, it is presently rifled; so virtue is safe so long as secret, but, if rashly exposed, it but too often evaporates into smoke. By humility, and contempt of the world, the soul, like an eagle, soars on high, above all transitory things, and tramples on the backs of lions and dragons.”   - St. Syncletica

“Since God is perfect in loving man, man must be perfect in loving his neighbor.”     - St. Vincent Palloti    (1795 – 1850)

Let me sing the canticle of love, let me follow Thee, my Beloved, on high; let my soul lose herself in Thy praises, rejoicing exceedingly in Thy love.    - St. Therese of Lisieux

“Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people.”   - Blessed Solanus Casey

I have always been fond of the words of the Gospels and found more recollection in them than in very cleverly written books.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Way of Perfection - chapter 21 : 4

"I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary 48 )

“Do your best to conform always and in Do your best to conform always and in everything to the will of God, in all eventualities, and do not fear. This is the sure path to Heaven.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“There is no danger of exaggerating. We never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.”   - St. Josemaria Escriva

“Our blessed Lord did not ascend to heaven immediately after the Resurrection but remained on earth for 40 days, speaking to the Apostles about the Kingdom of God.  It was during these days that He gave the details of His Church, which He said would have its visible manifestation on Pentecost.  ‘And so the Lord Jesus, when he had finished speaking to them, was taken up to heaven, and is seated now at the right hand of God.’  Seated is a figurative expression of eternal repose, which He has merited by His victory over sin.  At the right hand is a symbol of His power of eternal intercession before His heavenly Father on our behalf.  The Ascension of Christ is the assurance of our own ascension into heaven after the Last Judgment.  Not yet ascended in body, we nevertheless enjoy the ascension of our minds in union with Him.  We find our true home in heaven.  It is to heaven that we look expectantly for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to save us; He will form this humbled body of ours anew, modeling it into the image of His glorified body, so effective is His power to make all things obey Him.  O heavenly Magnet, in each communion draw our body and blood to Thy own, that already following Thee in heart, we may later ascend with Thee in the flesh!”    - Archbishop Fulton Sheen  (The Fifteen Mysteries)

"The Sacraments which Our Lord instituted would not have saved us without the Holy Spirit. Even the death of Our Lord would have been useless to us without Him. Therefore Our Lord said to His Apostles, “It is good for you that I should go away; for if I did not go, the Consoler would not come. ” The descent of the Holy Ghost was required, to render fruitful that harvest of graces. It is like a grain of wheat–you cast it into the ground; yes, but it must have sun and rain to make it grow and come into ear. We should say every morning, “O God, send me Thy Spirit to teach me what I am and what Thou art.”"    - St John Vianney.

“I beg Our Lord that in all things He may be your all!”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Don’t worry about me no matter what happens in this world. Nothing can happen to me that God doesn’t want. And all that He wants, no matter how bad it may appear to us, is really for the best.”    -St. Thomas More, Martyr

“There are many saints to whom God has given the power to assist us in the necessities of life, but the power given to St. Joseph is unlimited:  It extends to all our needs and all those who invoke him with confidence are sure to be heard.”    - St. Thomas Aquinas.

“O Mary, you understood the gift of God; you never lost a particle of it. You were so pure, so luminous, that you seemed to be light itself: Speculum justitiae, mirror of justice. Your life was so simple, so lost in God, that there is scarcely anything to say about it. Virgo fidelis: the faithful Virgin, ‘who kept all things in her heart.”   - St Elizabeth of the Trinity

For the love of God I beg you that your conversation always be directed towards bringing some good to the other with whom you are speaking, for your prayer must be for the benefit of souls.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Way of Perfection - chapter 20 : 3

“Jesus who reigned in Heaven with his most holy humanity received from the womb of the Virgin, wanted his mother to be reunited to Him not only with her soul but also with her body and share fully in his glory. And that was right and just. That body that was not a slave of the devil and sin for one instant was not to be a slave of corruption either.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"Do not fear, My little child, you are not alone. Fight bravely, because My arm is supporting you; fight for the salvation of souls, exhorting them to trust in My mercy, as that is your task in this life and in the life to come. After these words, I received a deeper understanding of Divine Mercy. Only that soul who wants it will be damned, for God condemns no one."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1452)

“Let us run to her, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.”   -  Saint Francis de Sales

“The superstition of progress asserts itself in some such fashion as this in our class rooms, best-sellers and high-class journals: Man is naturally good and indefinitely perfectible, and thanks to great cosmic floods of evolution will be swept forward and forward until he becomes a kind of a god.  Goodness increases with time, while evil and error decline.  History represents the gradual but steady advance of man up the hill of the more abundant and happy life.  No special institutions, no moral discipline, no Divine grace are necessary for the progress of man; for progress is automatic, due to the free play of natural forces and the operation of freedom in a world released from the superstition of religion.  Because evil and sin are only vestigial remnants from the bestial past, evolution and science and education will finally eradicate them.”    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Philosophies at war)

“God compensates for and accomplishes in a divine way what men and women are not able to do in a human way.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“If you don’t deny yourself you will never be a soul of prayer.”    - St. Josemaría Escrivá; The Way

“We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody—small things—or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.”   - St. Teresa of Calcutta

When our hands have touched some aromatic herbs, then they perfume everything they touch! Let us pass our prayers through the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She will perfume all our prayers.    - St. John Mary Vianney, St. Curate of Ars

"We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that the wide circle of the American Society, or the whole wide circle of the Christian Community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist. The  confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence. It is, therefore, in God's Plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously."   - Pope St. John Paul II

If the soul does not want to be deceived, and it walks in humility and simplicity, I don't think it will be deceived.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 28 : 10 

“ After Jesus Christ's ascension to Heaven, Mary longed continually with burning desire to be reunited with Him. To be without her divine Son was a very harsh exile. Those years of separation from Him were for her a most slow and painful martyrdom of love that consumed her slowly.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

I heard these words: If you did not tie my hands, I would send down many punishments upon the  earth.  My daughter, your look disarms my  anger. Although your lips are silent, you call out to Me so mightily that all heaven is moved. I cannot escape from your requests, because you pursue Me, not from afar but from within your own heart.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1772)  

“The Son of God became man for our salvation but only in Mary and through Mary.”   - St. Louis Marie de Montfort

"There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things."    Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Our Lord has no use for our knowledge or our good works if He does not possess our heart; and even this heart He does not wish if we do not give it to Him when He asks.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“With all our strength, therefore, let us never receive communion from or grant it to heretics; ‘Give not that which is holy unto dogs, saith the Lord, neither cast ye your pearls before swine,’ (Matt. 7:6); lest we become partakers in their dishonor and condemnation.”   - St. John Damascene

“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”    - St. Augustine of Hippo

"God wishes you to go out from yourself, to put aside all anxiety, in order to retire into that solitude which He has chosen for Himself in the depths of your heart."   -St Elizabeth of the Trinity

"We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!" - St John Vianney.

When the Lord desires to show the soul a great part of His Grandeur and Majesty that it would be impossible for any subject to endure it.   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Book of Her Life - chapter 28 : 9

"In return for My blessings, I get ingratitude. In return for My love, I get forgetfulness and indifference. My Heart cannot bear this."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST.  FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1537)

“Mary's holy soul, like a dove set free, left her saintly body and flew to the bosom of her Beloved.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.”   - Saint Gregory Nazianzen

“The ideal of spirituality is to be found in the first and last words of Our Lord’s public life.  The first word of His public life was: ‘come’ (John 1:39; Mark 1:17; Matthew 4:18).  The last word was ‘go’ (John 20:21; Mark 16:20; Matthew 28:19).  The disciple first comes to absorb His Truth, to become inflamed with His Love; then and then only, he goes to accomplish his mission.  Both words are summarized in the summary of the call of the disciples: He called the men He wanted; and they went and joined Him….these He would send out to proclaim the Gospel (Mark 3:14).  Unfortunately today, we have too many ‘go-goes’ and not enough ‘come-comes.’  The proper balance is found again in the story of Martha and Mary which follows in the Gospel the Good Samaritan.  In the latter, social service is praised.  But in the story of Martha and Mary, it is suggested that we are not to become too absorbed in serving, that we have become too absorbed in serving that we have no time to sit at the foot of Jesus and learn His lessons.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Those Mysterious Priests)

Knowledge must then lead to education in self-control.   - Pope St.  John Paul II

“When people want to destroy religion, they start by attacking priests, because when there are no priests, there is no sacrifice; and when there is no sacrifice, there is no religion.”    -  St. John Vianney.

“Towards God we should have the heart of a child; towards our neighbor, that of a mother; towards  our selves, that of a judge.”.  - St. Pachal Baylon

“What a joy to remember that she [Mary] is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?”   - Saint Therese of Lisieux

God gives Himself to those who give up all for Him. He shows no partiality, He loves everyone.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 27 : 12

“ May the Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

Oh, how much I am hurt by a soul's distrust! Such a soul professes that I am Holy and Just, but does not believe that I am Mercy and does not trust in My Goodness. Even the devils glorify My Justice but do not believe in My Goodness.  My Heart rejoices in this title of Mercy.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 300)

“No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost."   - Saint Hilary of Poitiers

“The world-man as a result has thrown dust in his own eyes and then had his eyes plucked out so that he can no longer find the gate which leads back home.  He was told religion was an opium and eternal purpose only theological folklore, and that if he dispossessed himself of its obligations and worries, he could make a paradise of this world. Foolishly man did this but instead of finding his material life enriched, he discovers that it becomes more precarious each day without the consolation of any hope beyond the grave.”    - Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Your nightly duty is laden with heavy responsibility and it is only through rest, sensibly taken, that you will possess the presence of mind your duty demands.”   - St. Vincent de Paul

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.” (Blessed John Henry Newman)

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”   - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

“Where shalt thou rejoice? Upon the Cross, with the Spotless Lamb, seeking His honour and the salvation of souls, through continual, humble prayer. Now herein is all our perfection.”   - St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

"The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill"   - St John of the Cross

Christ’s most sacred humanity in its risen form was represented to me completely, as it is in painting with such beauty and majesty   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Book of Her Life    - chapter 28: 3

"If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib.
Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit."    - St. John Chrysostom

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
  - St. Francis of Assisi.

“ What tongue could worthily describe Mary's triumphant entry into heaven? If the triumphs prepared here below arouse such admiration and great enthusiasm that they attract many people to contemplate them, what can be said of the triumph prepared by God Himself for his Mother?”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"During prayer, I heard these words: My daughter, let your heart be filled with joy. I, the Lord, am with you. Fear nothing. You are in My Heart. At that moment, I knew the great majesty of God, and I understood that nothing could be compared with one single perception of God. Outward greatness dwindles like a speck of dust before one act of a deeper knowledge of God."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1133)

”Jesus honored her before all ages, and will honor her for all ages. No one comes to Him, nor even near Him, no one is saved or sanctified, if he too will not honor her. This is the lot of Angels and of men.”   - Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe

"One of the greatest tragedies in the world is wasted pain. Pain without relation to the cross is like an unsigned check - without value. But once we have it countersigned with the Signature of the Saviour on the Cross, it takes on an infinite value." Archbishop Fulton Sheen (About Crosses)

"Whoever knows how to die in all will have life in all."    - St. John of the Cross

“If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“When we go before the Blessed Sacrament, let us open our heart; our good God will open His. We shall go to Him; He will come to us; the one to ask, the other to receive. It will be like a breath from one to the other.”   - St John Vianney.

“The economic, social and cultural transformations taking place in our world are having an enormous effect on how people look upon marriage and the family. As a result many couples are unsure of the meaning of their relationship, and this causes them much turmoil and suffering. On the other hand, many other couples are stronger because, having overcome modern pressures, they exercise more fully that special love and responsibility of the marriage covenant which make them see children as God’s special gift to the and to society. As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.”    - Pope St. John Paul II, Homily in Perth, Australia, November 30, 1986

“Those who profess to be Christ's will be recognized by their actions. For what matters is not a momentary act of professing, but being persistently motivated by faith.”    St. Ignatius of Antioch (c.35.- c. 107)

Not much edification is given if each one doesn't proceed, according to one's state, with composure and authotity.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 27 : 15

“ May the Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

+Once the Lord said to me, Act like a beggar who does not back away when he gets more alms [than he asked for], but offers thanks the more fervently. You too should not back away and say that you are not worthy of receiving greater graces when I give them to you. I know you are unworthy, but rejoice all the more and take as many treasures from My Heart as you can carry, for then you will please Me more. And I will tell you one more thing: Take these graces not only for yourself, but also for others; that is, encourage the souls with whom you come in contact to trust in My infinite mercy. Oh, how I love those souls who have complete confidence in Me. I will do everything for them.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 294)

"Mary, assist me in my needs. Intercede for me with God in life and death. Show your maternal kindness. Present your children’s prayers to God who chose you for His mother."   - Childhood Prayer of St. John Neumann

“People live ten, twenty, thirty, fifty years without a plan.  No wonder they find their existence humdrum and tiresome.  IF they were farmers, they would probably plant wheat one week, root it up and plant barley the next then dig up the barley and plant watermelon, then dig up the watermelon another week and plant oats.  Fall comes around and they have no harvest; if they repeated that process for years, they could go crazy.  It is the meaninglessness of life that makes it wearisome.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life is Worth Living)

“One can never have too great a supply of patience and mild persuasion.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“We must seek Christ where Christ is not, that is, in crosses and tribulations, in which truly He is not now, but we shall find Him in glory by this road.   - St. Philip Neri (1515-1595)

“Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which go to the heart of human events and which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding of history. These manifestations can never contradict the content of faith, and must therefore have their focus in the core of Christ’s proclamation: the Father’s love which leads men and women to conversion and bestows the grace required to abandon oneself to him with filial devotion. This too is the message of Fatima which, with its urgent call to conversion and penance, draws us to the heart of the Gospel.”   - The Message of Fatima, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

“O Holy Spirit, love of God, infuse Thy grace, and descend plentifully into my heart; enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling, and scatter there Thy cheerful beams…”   - St. Augustine of Hippo

“To enjoy interior peace, we must always reserve in our hearts amidst all affairs, as it were, a secret closet, where we are to keep retired within ourselves, and where no business of the world can ever enter.”   St. Antoninus

"We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love."   - Saint Catherine of Siena

“Science without true humility only inflates; but humility, joined to prayer and confidence in God and the necessary fund of knowledge, moves God, so to speak, to work wonders for the conversion of souls; the conversion of sinners is a work all divine.”   -  St. Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)

How honored will they be，they who have not sought honor from Him but have enjoyed seeing themselves humbled!   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 27 : 14

Write, My daughter, that I am mercy itself for the contrite soul. A soul's greatest wretchedness does not enkindle Me with wrath; but rather, My Heart is moved towards it with great mercy.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1739)

“ My son, you do not know the effects of obedience. Well, for a yes, for a single yes, "be it done unto me according to Your word," to do God's will, Mary became the mother of the Most High, professing herself to be his handmaid and keeping her virginity which was so dear to God and herself. Thanks to this yes pronounced by Mary Most Holy, the world obtained salvation and humanity was redeemed. Let us always do God's will and always say yes to the Lord.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"What shall you do when tempted by the flesh? Have the Virgin for your advocate. If you are devoted to her, you will feel temptations melting away, like wax before the fire."   - St. John of Avila

“Patience is not a spineless submission to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; it is not a mere gritting of teeth or hanging on; it is rather the acceptance of what we would reject, the bearing of what we hate, a renewed decision, day after day to accept what we do not want, and to suffer without complaint what we cannot change.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Our confidence is increasing that God will soon give us peace, according to the maxim that where human means fail, divine operations begin.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood."   - St. Louis de Montfort

"It would be impossible, my dear brethren, not to love Mary if we reflected for a moment upon her affection for us, and the benefits which she never ceases to lavish upon is."   - St. John Vianney

“‘Oh, my children,’ Mary seems to say to us with these words, ‘when the enemy assails you, lift your eyes to me and behold me and take courage; for in me, who defends you, you will behold, at the same time, your victory.’”    - St. Alphonsus

“We must seek Christ where Christ is not, that is, in crosses and tribulations, in which truly He is not now, but we shall find Him in glory by this road.”   -  St. Philip Neri (1515-1595)

I could not desire another path, but I placed myself in the hands of God that He would carry out his will completely in me; He knew what suited me. I saw that on this road I was being led to heaven.   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 27:1

"On a certain occasion, I saw a person about to commit a mortal sin. I asked the Lord to send me the greatest torments so that that soul could be saved. Then I suddenly felt a terrible pain of a crown of thorns on my head. It lasted for quite a long time, but that person remained in the Lord's grace. O my Jesus, how very easy it is to become holy; all that is needed is a bit of good will. If Jesus sees this little bit of good will in the soul, he hurries to give Himself to the soul, and nothing can stop Him, neither shortcomings nor falls absolutely nothing. Jesus is anxious to help that soul, and if it is faithful to this grace from God, it can very soon attain the highest holiness possible for a creature here on earth. God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit - that is the shortest route"    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA    (Diary, 291)

”Do not leave the altar without first shedding tears of sorrow and love for Jesus, crucified for your eternal salvation. Our Lady of Sorrows will keep you company and inspire you.”.  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.”   - Sister Lucia dos Santos of Fatima

“The revelation of Fatima is a reminder that we live in a moral universe, that evil is self-defeating, that good is self-preserving; that the basic trouble of the world are not in politics or economics but in our hearts and our souls, and that spiritual regeneration is the condition of social amelioration.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“I beg Our Lord that in all things He may be your all!”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"It should be known that God dwells secretly in all souls, and is hidden in their substance, for otherwise, they would not last."   - St. John of the Cross

My dear Christians, are we not astonished at what the saints have suffered, at the patience which they exhibited in all this suffering,  at the longing which they showed for crosses and sufferings?  And we--we complain when we have to suffer a little!  We bear with impatience the slightest adversity sent to us from God. Let us remember that "through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God," and let us bear the little suffering which God sends us with patience and submission, so that we may by this, like the saints, obtain the everlasting joys of heaven."   - St. John Vianney

"I am going to give you my “secret”: think about this God who dwells within you . . . the soul lives beyond the clouds and veils, in Him who is the Unchanging One."   - St Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Knowledge of what is good for him has been given to every-one by God; but self-indulgence leads to negligence, and negligence to forgetfulness.”   St. Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)

A locution bears the credentials of being from God if it is in conformity with：Sacred Scripture.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 25 : 13

“ Remember what took place in the heart of our heavenly Mother at the foot of the Cross. She was turned to stone before her crucified Son, due to the excessive suffering, but you cannot say she was abandoned. On the contrary, she was never loved more than at that moment when she suffered and couldn't even cry.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

I saw the Lord Jesus, who said, "My daughter, you gave Me greater pleasure by rendering Me that service than if you had prayed for a long time". I answered, But it was not to You, Jesus, but to that patient that I rendered this service. And the Lord answered me,"Yes, My daughter, but whatever you do for your neighbour, you do for Me"   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA    (Diary 1029)

“From day to day, from moment to moment, she increased so much this twofold plenitude that she attained an immense and inconceivable degree of grace. So much so, that the Almighty made her the sole custodian of his treasures and the sole dispenser of his graces. She can now ennoble, exalt and enrich all she chooses. She can lead them along the narrow path to heaven and guide them through the narrow gate to life. She can give a royal throne, scepter and crown to whom she wishes. Jesus is always and everywhere the fruit and Son of Mary and Mary is everywhere the genuine tree that bears that Fruit of life, the true Mother who bears that Son.”   - Saint Louis Marie de Montfort

“Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.”   Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life is Worth Living)

“Happy will we be if God finds us worthy of suffering for justice’s sake and if God grants us the grace of loving humiliation and returning good for evil.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

"See, my children, what the saints were like, who were all filled with the love of the good God: nothing cost them too much; they joyfully made the greatest sacrifices; they distributed their goods to the poor, rendered services to their enemies, led a hard and penitential life; tore themselves from the pleasures of the world, from the conveniences of life, to bury themselves alive in solitude; they hastened to torments and to death, as people hasten to a feast. Such were the effects which the love of the good God produced in the saints; such ought it to produce in us."    - St John Vianney.

"A single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water."   - St Augustine

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.   - Pope St. John Paul II

“Blessed the one who loves gentleness with spiritual understanding and is not tripped up by the wicked Serpent, for he has as his hope the good and compassionate Lord.”   -  St. Ephrem of Syria (306 – 373)

As often as the Lord commanded something of me in prayer and my confessor told me to do otherwise, the Lord returned and told me to obey my confessor; afterward His Majesty would change the confessor’s mind, and he would agree with the Lord’s command.   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 26:5

“ Do not be so completely dedicated to Martha's activity that you forget the silence or self-abandonment of Mary. May the Virgin, who combines the two duties so well, be your model and inspiration.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"May 1, [1938]. This evening, Jesus said to me, My daughter, do you need anything? I answered, "O my Love, when I have You I have everything." And the Lord answered, If souls would put themselves completely in My care, I myself would undertake the task of sanctifying them, and I would lavish even greater graces on them. There are souls who thwart My efforts, but I have not given up on them; as often as they turn to Me, I hurry to their aid, shielding them with My Mercy, and I give them the first place in My compassionate Heart."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA.  (Diary, 1682)

“The Son of God became man for our salvation but only in Mary and through Mary.”   - Saint Louis Marie de Montfort

Our Lord spent three hours in redeeming, three years in teaching, and thirty years in obeying, in order that a rebellious, proud, and diabolically independent world might learn the value of obedience. Archbishop Fulton Sheen (World’s First Love)

"Jesus wants to use you to make Me known and loved. He wishes to establish the devotion to My Immaculate Heart throughout the world. I promise salvation to whoever embraces it; these souls will be dear to God, like flowers put by Me to adorn his throne." OUR LADY OF FATIMA TO SR. LUCIA  JUNE 13 1917

Many are slow to anger offline but become angry very quickly online, because when we interact on the Internet we don’t see each other’s expressions or body language, so it’s easy to misinterpret each other’s intentions.

The good thing is that we can always opt not to send that angry or sarcastic comment.

Of course, it’s still hard because pride is a very strong influence.
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“At times a single word is sufficient to cool a person who is burning with anger; and, on the other hand, a single word may be capable of just relating a soul, and infusing it and infusing into it bitterness which may be most hurtful.”  -St. Vincent  de Paul

May Jesus comfort you in all your afflictions.
May He sustain you in dangers, watch over you always with His grace, and indicate the safe path    that leads to eternal salvation. And may He render you always dearer to His Divine Heart and always more worthy of Paradise.  Amen  St.  Pio of Pietrelcina

"It should be of no concern to you how anyone else acts; you are to be My living reflection, through love and mercy". I answered, Lord, but they often take advantage of my goodness. "That makes no difference, My daughter. That is no concern of yours. As for you, be always merciful toward other people, and especially toward sinners"   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1446)

"Charity may be compared to gold, the most precious of all metals, which adorns and beautifies everything that is richest upon earth.  Charity is the ornament and adornment of all other virtues.  The least little action accompanied with meekness and humility and charity of heart, is of more value and far surpasses anything that we can imagine."
"If I should ask, what is Charity?  the answer is , it is a virtue that comes to us from heaven, by which we love God with our whole heart, and our neighbor as ourselves, for the love of God."   - St. John Vianney, Sermon on Charity

LET'S PRAY THIS EVERYDAY UNTIL ELECTION DAY

A Prayer Inspired by Deuteronomy 17:14-20

Heavenly Father, we pray for good leaders for our nation. We ask that You handpick them Yourself.

Give us courageous leaders, ones who will look to You for guidance; Leaders who will not acquire power and wealth to benefit themselves, or their families, but who will institute reforms that will benefit the our nation and its people..

Please Lord, give us leaders with a heart to serve the nation and Your people. Give us leaders with both heart and skill, character and wisdom, humility and will, competence and integrity!

Keep us out of the clutches of evil, scheming men and women whose only motivation is their self- interest. Please save our country Lord. Please open the eyes and the hearts of certain sectors so they see how our people have suffered much. Save us from any threats to our life and risks to our freedoms and .... to our democracy.

We beg our Mother Mary to embrace our nation. We ask these through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory

Our Lady of Fatima, embrace the 

Padre Pio and St Therese, pray for our nation

all the Angels and Saints in heaven, pray for us. amen.

God doesn't carry out His work as people do; He understands our weakness. Through extensive conjecturing the soul feels within itself that it truly loves Him.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 26 : 1

“Do not be so completely dedicated to Martha's activity that you forget the silence or self-abandonment of Mary. May the Virgin, who combines the two duties so well, be your model and inspiration.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“Mary's life too is ‘hid with Christ in God’ through faith. For faith is contact with the mystery of God. Every day Mary is in constant contact with the ineffable mystery of God made man, a mystery that surpasses everything revealed in the Old Covenant. From the moment of the Annunciation, the mind of the Virgin Mother has been initiated into the radical ‘newness’ of God's self-revelation and has been made aware of the mystery. She is the first of those ‘little ones’ of whom Jesus will say one day: ‘Father, you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes.’ For ‘no one knows the Son except the Father.’ Yet she does not know him as the Father does.”   - Pope St. John Paul II

“Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life is Worth Living)

“God often wants to build lasting benefits on the patience of those who undertake them.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“God's ways are incomprehensible. He uses very sharp files, which penetrate the heart and remove the rust. His files are all spiritual.”    St. Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)

“We will have to labor hard, to sweat, to die: but the thought that one sweats and dies for love of Jesus Christ and the salvation of the most abandoned souls in the world, is far too sweet for us to desist from this great enterprise.”   - Saint Daniel Comboni

"What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience."   St. Francis de Sales

"If you wish to walk securely and be certain of your salvation, if you aspire to a great crown in Heaven that will never fade, love and honor Mary, and strive to make her known, loved, and honored by others. "   - St. Joseph Cafasso

“It is in vain that we cut off the branches of evil, if we leave intact the root, which continually produces new ones.”    - St. Gregory the Great

"Ave Crux, spes unica! (Hail O Cross, our only hope!) May this acclamation … remain ever on our lips, for the Cross is a mystery of life and death. The Cross has become for the Church a 'tree of life'. For this reason we proclaim that life has triumphed over death."   - Pope St.  John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Pastores Gregis

There is nothing to fear if one walks in truth in the presence of His Majesty and with a pure conscience.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 26 : 1

"My daughter, in this meditation, consider the love of neighbour. 

Is your love for your neighbour guided by My love? 

Do you pray for your enemies? 

Do you wish well to those who have, in one way or another, caused you sorrow or offended you? 

Know that whatever good you do to any soul, I accept it as if you had done it to Me"   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1768)

“May Mary transform all your sufferings into joy.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother, Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul."   - St. Josemaría Escrivá

“A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave state in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own; or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do but do not produce.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (On Being Human)

“Courage, courage, trust in God who helps you in all things.”    - St. Mary MacKillop

"The future will be resplendent, and an untold number of souls will be saved, but on one condition: that your sons be devoted to the Blessed Virgin."   - St. Dominic Savio

“O Lord, increase my sufferings and my patience!”   - Pope St. Pius V

For that a soul should be intimated by or fearful of anything other than offening God is a serious disadvantage.    St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.  The Book of Her Life - chapter 26 : 1

“Love is inventive, even to infinity.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.”    St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491.-1556.)

"A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love."   - St. Catherine of Siena

"Daughter, I need sacrifice lovingly accomplished, because that alone has meaning for Me. Enormous indeed are the debts of the world which are due to Me; pure souls can pay them by their sacrifice, exercising mercy in spirit".    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1316)

“ Humanity wants its share. Mary the mother of Jesus also knew that his death meant the redemption of the human race, yet she wept and suffered and how much she suffered.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern."    - St. John Vianney

“Freedom is the power to do what we ought.  A man can do many things, e.g. shoot his wife, steal his neighbor’s cabbage, or punch his competitor’s nose.  But he ought not do these things, because all his rights involve corresponding duties.  The power to act a certain way is not the right to act any way.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Freedom Under God)

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with trust and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.   -  St John of the Cross

“God’s providence will never fail us as long as we do not fail in His service.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Since God is perfect in loving man, man must be perfect in loving his neighbor.”    - St.   Vincent Palloti

“The rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christ-centered prayer. It has all the depth of the gospel message in its entirety. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb…”    - Pope St. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae

"Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children."   - St. John Vianney

“To accept words of truth is to accept the divine Word; for He says: 'He that receives you receives me' (Matt. 10:40).”    St. Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)

"If you ever feel distressed during your day, call upon our Lady, just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit — this prayer has never failed me."   -St. Teresa of Calcutta

What a great thing it is to understand a soul !   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 23 : 17

“ If Jesus manifests Himself, thank Him; and if He hides Himself thank Him also; it is all a game of love. May the clement and pious Virgin continue to obtain for you from the ineffable goodness of the Lord the strength to sustain till the end the many proofs of charity He gives you. I hope you will die with Jesus on the Cross; and say in Him ‘Consummatum est.’”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy"  
WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1317)

“The Holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence, and you will be amazed at the results.”   - St. Josemaría Escrivá

“The best definition of an adult that was ever given is that an adult is one who has stopped growing at both ends and has begun to grow in the middle.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“I wish you a new heart and an entirely new love for Him who loves us unceasingly and as tenderly as if He were just beginning to love us: all the delights of God are ever new and full of sweetness because He never changes.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”   -St. Robert Bellarmine

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.    -St. Teresa of Calcutta

“In all things let us not forget to repeat with the Lord Jesus: "Not my will but Thine be done." . . . Let us not forget that Jesus not only suffered, but also rose in glory; so, too, we go to the glory of the Resurrection by way of suffering and the Cross.”   -  St. Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)

"We must practice mortification. For this is the path which all the Saints have followed. If we are not now saints, it is a great misfortune for us: therefore we must be so. As long as we have no love in our hearts, we shall never be Saints."    - St John Vianney.

I should by no means give up prayer but strive very hard since God had granted me such special favors. He wondered if the Lord didn't desire to do good for many persons through me.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Book of Her Life - chapter 23 : 16