Sorry for the lack of posts I have been ill a couple of weeks.  I hope to start posting again possibly starting today

Trials bear the special mark of God’s goodness.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

Through this Virgin, the whole earth is filled with the glory of God. Through this Virgin, all have known the great God. All have seen the salvation of God.    - St. Ildephonsus

"Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent."    - St. Isidore of Seville

"Don't give in to discouragement....... If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about people's opinions. Be obedient to truth. For with humble obedience, you will never be disturbed."   -- St. Teresa of Calcutta

If we have received from God such great blessings and graces, it is fitting that we should joyfully accept temporal suffering.”   - Our Lady of America

“I belong to the Lord; my vows are irrevocable, and nothing can detach me from His service!”   St. Clare of Assisi

Everything wearies the soul, for it has learned through experience that creatures cannot give it true rest.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Interior Castle - V : 2v: 8

Souls who spread the honor of My mercy I shield through their entire lives as a tender mother her infant, and at the hour of death I will not be a Judge for them, but the merciful Savior. At that last hour, a soul has nothing with which to defend itself except My mercy. Happy is the soul that during its lifetime immersed itself in the Fountain of Mercy, because justice will have no hold on it.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1075)

“What is happiness if not the possession of every good that renders man completely content? But can we ever find anyone who is completely happy on this earth? Certainly not. Man would have been happy if he had remained faithful to God. But given that man is full of crime, that is, sin, he can never be totally happy. Therefore, only in Heaven can happiness be found. There, there is no danger of losing God, no suffering, no death, but eternal life with Jesus Christ.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.”   - St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

“Church- the notice of her execution has been posted, but the execution has never taken place.  Science killed her, and still she was there; History interred her, but still she was alive.  Modernism slew her, but still she lived.”    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Divine Romance)

“The rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at a 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…It can be said that the rosary is, in some sense, a prayer-commentary on the final chapter of the Vatican II Constitution Lumen Gentium, a chapter that discusses the wondrous presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of Christ and the Church”    St. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.     - Pope St. John Paul II

“It is in silence that we can hear God speak to our hearts.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

O Mary, to whom else shall we go? You have the words of eternal life! These are the prayers by which you intervene on our behalf before God. Indeed, you never cease to work wonders for us.    - St. Germanus

"...You will accomplish My will and My desires, and a faithful servant of Mine will help you to do this. Now, rest your head on My bosom, on My heart, and draw from it strength and power for these sufferings, because you will find neither relief nor help nor comfort anywhere else. Know that you will have much, much to suffer, but don't let this frighten you; I am with you."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 36)

"God is there in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace. And when night looks back and you see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it to Him – really rest – and start the next day as a new life."   - St. Theresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)

"You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme mystery!... And you still live for me on the Altar. If I cannot see the brilliance of your Face Or hear your sweet voice, O my God, I can live by your grace, I can rest on your Sacred Heart!"   - St Therese of Lisieux

"If when we are ill, our recovery will contribute to the glory of God and the good of our soul, he who healed so many when he was on earth, will certainly heal us. If, on the contrary, the illness is more advantageous to us, he will instead give us the strength to suffer."    - St. John Vianney.

If we don't want to have anything more to do with our own lowliness and misery and if we understand that we are unworthy of being servants of a Lord who is so great we cannot comprehend His wonders !   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Interior Castle - V : 1 : 13

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

“If we have a box in which we keep our money, we know the one thing we must always give attention to is the key; we never think that the key is the money, but we know that without the key we cannot get into our money. The Mother of the Babe is like that key; without her we cannot get to Our Lord because He came through her. She is not to be compared to Our Lord, for she is a creature and He is the Creator. But without her we could not understand how the Bridge was built between heaven and earth.
As she formed Jesus in her body, so she forms Jesus in our souls. In this one Woman, virginity and motherhood are united, as if God willed to show that both are necessary for the world. Those things which are separated in other creatures are united in her. The Mother is the protector of the Virgin and the Virgin is also the inspiration of Motherhood."    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Christmas Inspirations)

“Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to his liking”   St. Vincent De Paul

O Mary, to whom else shall we go? You have the words of eternal life! These are the prayers by which you intervene on our behalf before God. Indeed, you never cease to work wonders for us.    -?St. Germanus

"If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me."    - St. Joan of Arc

"How consoling it is to suffer under the eyes of God, and to be able to say in the evening, at our examination of conscience: "Come, my soul! thou hast had today two or three hours of resemblance to Jesus Christ. Thou hast been scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified with Him!" Oh what a treasure for the hour of death! How sweet it is to die, when we have lived on the cross! 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.

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.     - Pope St. John Paul II

Whatever you have little or much He wants everything for Himself.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Interior Castle - V:1:3

“ If we have to be patient and bear the faults of others, all the more must we tolerate ourselves. In your daily transgressions humble yourself, humble yourself, always humble yourself. When Jesus sees you prostrated with humility, He will extend his hand and He Himself will draw you to Him.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"My daughter, look at My Merciful Heart."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary 177)

"The title of Mary as our mother is not merely symbolic. Mary is our mother in the most real and lofty sense, a sense which surpasses that of earthly maternity. She begot our life of grace for us because she offered up her entire being, body, and soul as the Mother of God."    – St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

“Not always, but sometimes, criticism is the outcome of an incapability to produce, or a defense against one’s own inferiority.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Thoughts for Daily Living)

“We must conform ourselves to the will of God and adore the wisdom of God’s ways.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other religious experience.... The risen Lord ... calls the faithful together to give them the light of His Word and the nourishment of His Body as the perennial sacramental wellspring of redemption. The grace flowing from this wellspring renews mankind, life, and history.   Pope St.  John Paul II

" These are the few ways we can practice humility:
To speak as little as possible of one's self.
To mind one's own business.
Not to want to manage other people's affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one's dignity.
To choose always the hardest."
-  St. Teresa of Calcutta

Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be     - St. Augustine

“God will provide for me, for to Him who trusts in God nothing will be wanting.”.    St. Gerard Majella  

However sublime the contemplation, let your prayer always begin and end with self-knowledge.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 39 : 5

“The laws and maxims of Jesus are very mild and holy and reasonable. The standards of the world are laws and maxims of hell, and are diabolical, tyrannical, and finally unbearable.”   St. Jean Eudes (1601 – 1680)

Oh, how painful it is to Me that souls so seldom unite themselves to Me in Holy Communion. I wait for souls, and they are indifferent toward Me. I love them tenderly and sincerely, and they distrust Me. I want to lavish My graces on them, and they do not want to accept them. They treat Me as a dead object, whereas My Heart is full of love and mercy. In order that you may know at least some of My pain, imagine the most tender of mothers who has great love for her children, while those children spurn her love. Consider her pain. No one is in a position to console her. This is but a feeble image and likeness of My love.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1447)

“Not one of us deserves anything in this world; it is the Lord who is benevolent towards us and it is his infinite mercy that bestows everything because He forgives everything.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.”   - St. Anselm

“Outer truths had such primacy that Christ was abandoned.  As the Church drops certain practices and ideals, the world picks them up and secularizes them.  As the rosary is dropped, hippies put them around their necks; as nuns drop the long habits, girls put on maxi coats; as mysticism is forgotten, youths go in for psychedelic experiences; as Christ is dropped, the theater restores Him as superstar.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Those Mysterious Priests)

Sorry folks for the lack of posts I have been very ill even thought I had covid but thank GOD I did not... Maybe start posting again tomorrow

“The sufferings of Our Lord gave fecundity to His words, and your crosses will also give it to the holy seed you plant in hearts.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“…Our Lord, after foretelling His Passion to His disciples, had exhorted them to follow the path of His sufferings (Matthew 16:21-24). Now in order that anyone go straight along a road, he must have some knowledge of the end: thus an archer will not shoot the arrow straight unless he first see the target. Hence Thomas said (John 14:5): ‘Lord, we know not whither Thou goest; and how can we know the way?’ Above all is this necessary when hard and rough is the road, heavy the going, but delightful the end. Now by His Passion Christ achieved glory, not only of His soul, not only of His soul, which He had from the first moment of His conception, but also of His body; according to Luke (24:26): ‘Christ ought [Vulgate: ‘ought not Christ’] to have suffered these things, and so to enter into His glory (?).’ To which glory He brings those who follow the footsteps of His Passion, according to Acts 14:21: ‘Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.’ Therefore it was fitting that He should show His disciples the glory of His clarity (which is to be transfigured), to which He will configure those who are His; according to Philippians 3:21: ‘(Who) will reform the body of our lowness configured [Douay: ‘made like’] to the body of His glory.’ Hence Bede says on Mark 8:39: ‘By His loving foresight He allowed them to taste for a short time the contemplation of eternal joy, so that they might bear persecution bravely.’”    - St. Thomas Aquinas

"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”    - St. Augustine of Hippo

"Our Lord is hidden there, waiting for us to come and visit him and ask him for what we want.  He is there, in the Sacrament of his love, sighing and interceding unceasingly for sinners before God his Father.  He is there to console us ...  See how good he is!  He adapts himself to our weakness...  In heaven where we shall be triumphant and glorious, we shall see him in all his glory; if he had appeared before us now in glory, we should not have dared to approach him; but he hides himself like one in prison, saying to us, 'You do not see me, but that does not matter; ask me for all you want, and I will grant it you.'"    - St. John Vianney

The soul's profit and what the world calls honor can never go together. It's frightful thing; the world moves in the opposite direction. Blessed be the Lord who drew us out of it.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila.  The Way of Perfection - chapter 36 : 3

My daughter, I want to teach you about spiritual warfare. Never trust in yourself, but abandon yourself totally to My will. In desolation, darkness and various doubts, have recourse to Me and to your spiritual director. He will always answer you in My name. Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor. Put your self-love in the last place, so that it does not taint your deeds. Bear with yourself with great patience. Do not neglect interior mortifications. Always justify to yourself the opinions of your superiors and of your confessor. Shun murmurers like a plague. Let all act as they like; you are to act as I want you to.   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1760)

“ You must principally insist on the basis of Christian justice and the foundation of goodness; that is on the virtue of which Jesus explicitly offers himself as a model: humility, interior and exterior humility, but more interior than exterior, more felt than shown, more profound than visible.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“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

“Transfiguration is not the same as futurism, which regards this world as becoming better and better until it is turned into an early paradise.  Transfiguration means that through catastrophe, crisis, and final judgment, old things are made new. This new kingdom is not in time at all, but in eternity; its existence is not due to an eruption of the mundane with the heavenly, but a visitation of the spiritual with the human – a visitation morally conditioned. It is the very reverse of the Tower of Babel.”    Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"If you want to belong entirely to God you must be prepared to be despised and rejected by the world.  Blessed is he, my friends, who belongs to these, and who follows in the footsteps of the Lord with courage and carries his cross with patience.  It is only by doing so that we may obtain the happiness of reaching heaven.  Amen."   St. John Vianney

“We must conform ourselves to the will of God and adore the wisdom of God’s ways.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

The Immaculate Conception also entails sacrifice on the part of Mary. Therefore, we cannot consider ourselves favored children of the Lord and His Mother if our lives know nothing of sacrifice.    - Pope St. John XXIII

“If you are faithful to do the Will of God in time, yours shall be accomplished throughout eternity.”   St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)

True charity refers to doing good to those who do evil to us,  and then win them over.   - St. Alphonsus Liguori

But received the Lord since you had the  Person Himself strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of your soul and look into your own heart   St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila    The Way of Perfection -  chapter 34:12

“ Oh my Jesus, give me Your strength when my weak nature rebels against the distress and suffering of this life of exile, and enable me to accept everything with serenity and peace.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"I want to give myself to souls and to fill them with My love, but few there are who want to accept all the graces My love has intended for them. My grace is not lost; if the soul for whom it was intended does not accept it, another soul takes it."    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 1017)

“We must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is called "hypothetical," (that is, because God so willed it), the Blessed Virgin is all the more necessary for men to attain their final end. Consequently we must not place devotion to her on the same level as devotion to the other saints as if it were merely something optional.”   - St. Louis Marie de Montfort

“If our arm suffers injury, our whole body feels the pain.  In like manner, if the Church in any part of the world suffers martyrdom, we should feel pity toward it as part of our body, and that pity should express itself in prayer and good works.”    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Victory over Vice)

“We should assist the poor in every way and do it both by ourselves and by enlisting the help of others… to do this is to preach the gospel by word and by work.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“An abscess had formed in your conscience; it tormented you  and gave you no rest. . . . confess, and in confession let the pus come  out and flow away.”   St.  Augustine

"God no more takes his eyes off us than does a mother take them off her child who is just starting to walk."   - St. John Vianney

"Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny."    -  Pope St. John Paul II

My Heart if sorrowful... because even chosen souls do not understand the greatness of My mercy. Their relationship [with Me] is, in certain ways, imbued with mistrust. Oh, how much that wounds My Heart! remember My Passion, and if you do not believe My words, at least believe My Wounds.    WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (Diary, 379)

“Do not let your soul be troubled at the sad spectacle of human injustice; even this has its value in the economy of events. Do not stop in your search for the truth and in the acquisition of the Most High. Be docile to the inspirations of grace.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“Our dear Savior was never in extremes.”   – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

“The first direct, human limitation of infant life in the history of Christianity took place in the village of Bethlehem through an infant-controller whose name was Harod. The prevention of infant life was simultaneously an attack upon Divinity in the person of God made man, Jesus Christ our Lord. No one strikes at birth who does not simultaneously strike at God, for birth is earth’s reflection of the Son’s eternal generation.”    Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Three to Get Married)

"If an interior consolation, if a grace from the good God, gives us so much pleasure in this world that it diminishes our troubles, that it helps us to bear our crosses, that it gives to so many martyrs strength to suffer the most cruel torments - what will be the happiness of Heaven, where consolations and delights are given, not drop by drop, but by torrents!"     - St John Vianney On Paradise

But with simplicity and humility, which will acheive everything, say : Thy will be done.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 32 : 14

“Believe that Jesus, Sun of justice, is with you, loves you and always will, although He would like your consent to operate freely in you.”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"My daughter, what I demand from you is prayer, prayer, and once again prayer, for the world and especially for your country. For nine days receive Holy Communion in atonement and unite yourself closely to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. During these nine days you will stand before God as an offering; always and everywhere, at all times and places, day or night, whenever you wake up, pray in the spirit. In spirit, one can always remain in prayer".  WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA   (2(Diary 325)

The look of Mary, the smile of Mary, the sweetness of Mary, the majesty of Mary, Queen of heaven and earth! Mary’s beauty stands out among all other beauties, which pale next to hers. Mary is the most beautiful of God’s creatures.    - Pope Pius XII

“It is absurd to believe that He Who wrote only once in His Life, and that was in the sands, and Who never told anyone to write, should have intended that His Truth should be available only and exclusively in a few memoranda that were written down by a few followers over twenty years after His Death, and were never gathered together in their approved form until three centuries later?  Grant that they are inspired and revealed, and I believe it and confess it and read those writings daily; but I still say it is unthinkable that these books which were not written until His Mystical Body was already spread throughout the whole Roman Empire, should be His only way of communicating Truth.  If He did not take some effective guarantee to preserve His Truth, which was so sacred that He died for it, then Truth did not matter to Him.  If He could not prolong His Truth, up to this hour, then He is not God.  Either that infallible Truth of Jesus Christ is living now, available now, or He is not God.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Rock Plunged into Eternity)

“Charity is like a flame which soars aloft. When present in a soul, charity raises it aloft to God and draws God to it in such a way that if you could see the beauty of it, you would fall in love with it and be transported with astonishment.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

Seek grace in the smallest things, and you will find also grace to accomplish, to believe in, and to hope for the greatest things.   - St. Peter Faber (1506-1546), priest

“Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you – for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart… The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.”    - St. Thérèse of Lisieux

“Blessed the one who is fired by the fear of God, ever having in himself the fervour of the Holy Spirit, and who has burned up the thorns and thistles of the thoughts.”   St. Ephrem of Syria (306 – 373)

"My secret is quite simple—I pray!"   - St. Teresa of Calcutta

I myself hold that the measure for being able to bear a large or small cross is love.   St Teresa of Jesus of Avila   The Way of Perfection - chapter 32 : 7

I am suffering, and suffering very much, but thanks to our good Jesus I still feel a little strength, and when aided by Jesus what is the creature not capable of doing?”   St. Pio of Pietrelcina   (Letters, I, p. 342)

"I suddenly saw the Lord Jesus, who said to me with great kindness, My daughter, look at My Merciful Heart."   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINAW   (Diary 177)

“The power to sin greatly increases our merit, if we abstain from offending God.”   – St. Louise de Marillac

“As a grain of wheat slowly multiplies in the ground, so the bread and fishes, by a Divinely hastened process were multiplied until everyone had his fill.  If He had given money, no one would have had his fill.  Nature was to go as far as it could, then God supplied the rest.  He ordered that the fragments be gathered up; they filled twelve baskets.  In the reckoning of men there is always a deficit; in the arithmetic of God, there is always a surplus.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life of Christ)