"Listen and attend with the ear of your heart." St. Benedict (480 – 543)

"Today I am sending you with My mercy to the people of the whole world. I do not want to punish aching mankind but to heal it, pressing it to My Merciful Heart. I use punishment when they themselves force me to do so; My hand is reluctant to take hold of the sword of justice. Before the Day of Justice, I am sending the Day of Mercy"   WORDS OF JESUS TO ST. FAUSTINA.  (Diary,1588)

“Don’t allow any sadness to dwell in your soul, for sadness prevents the Holy Spirit from acting freely.”  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)

“Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal good; may it please His Divine goodness to give us spiritual ones.”   – St. Vincent de Paul

“There are some flowers that open only in the evening, Simeon, the old man, was one of those flowers.  Imagine the ecstasy of this old man when he embraced the Child, and his first words were ‘now I am ready to die.’  He then speaks to the mother and notice how he looks backwards and forwards; he looks backward to the people of God of which he was a priest and says ‘this is the glory of thy people Israel, this Babe.’  Then he looks forward, ‘this is the Light which shall give revelation to the Gentiles.’  In other words, he saw in this Babe, the maker of a new covenant, but he also saw in Him a sign to be contradicted by the very people to whom he came to bring salvation.  So that this Christ who was born was not just someone who came by surprise, He’s related to all of the people of God through the centuries.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Bishop Sheen Catechism)

Mary is a Queen because she is a Mother, the Immaculate Mother of God, a completely Divine Mother. She is thus the Queen of heaven and earth, of Angels and human beings. —St. Maximilian Kolbe