The Sweetest Charm of Female Excellence

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor. - Webster's Dictionary 1828

All the Evil in the World is Due to Lukewarm Catholics

The evil that has been allowed to spread in the Church is the problem. That is why that insane baby killer is sitting in the White House. Because the Church did not speak up like it should have. This is why there is a Congress running wild, destroying your futures and your children's futures, and your children's children's future and saddling this country with a ridiculous debt...and all doing it in the name of God...Justice...Peace?! This is happening because the Church did not do what it is supposed to be doing. All the evil in the world is due to lukewarm Catholics. - Michael Voris

Our Blessed Lord Founded One Church: The Catholic Church

There is no such thing as “other Churches.” We, the Catholic Church, are not one of a number of denominations. Protestant ecclesial communities are denominations, we are not. We are the original Church that goes back to Jesus Christ Himself, founded on Peter… [You] cannot equate Protestant groups with the Catholic Church. Our Blessed Lord founded ONE Church and it is the Catholic Church, everything else is an ecclesial community. - Michael Voris

The New Mass is “Fabricated Liturgy.” - Pope Benedict XVI

The new Mass is “fabricated liturgy.” We abandoned the organic, living process of growth and development over the centuries and replaced it – as in a manufacturing process – with a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product. – Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

Can it be That the Pews are Filled with People who Don't Know What They are Doing?

One reads that large numbers of Catholics do not understand or accept the teaching of the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Can it be that the pews are filled with people who don't know what they are doing? I have heard homilies on the real presence so tentative it is unlikely they would enlighten or strengthen the faith. But copies of the Catechism are available in bookshops everywhere, even in greeting card shops. Maybe tongue-tied pastors ought to buy a copy for every parishioner. What will turn things around is the growing practice of exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. At Notre Dame, a group of undergraduates has established this practice in one of the hall chapels, supplementing the Friday afternoon Eucharistic adoration in Sacred Heart Basilica.

It may well be that liturgical changes, scheduled and unscheduled, have drained the Mass of its awe and reverence. My wife, never easy prey to nostalgia, recently attended a Tridentine Mass and was reminded what it felt like to pray in church. Romper room music and bushels of bonhomie don't prepare one to receive Jesus in the sacrament, delivered with a mindless smile by an extraordinary eucharistic minister who might as well be offering cheese samples at the supermarket. With so little sense of the real presence being exhibited during the sanctuary mob scene that precedes communion, it is perhaps less surprising that belief has seeped away. - Ralph McInerny


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Pope John Paul II Speaks to President George W. Bush About the Culture of Life

Through a vibrant culture of life, America can show the world the path to a truly humane future, in which man remains the master, not the product, of his technology. - Pope John Paul II

If you Give Government the Power to Supply you all of Your Needs, Then you Give Government the Power to Take Everything Away

If the government has the power to supply all of your needs, then it also has the power to take everything away from you. It's not rocket science. - Micahel Fanelli

‎Our Constitution was Made Only for a Moral and Religious People

‎Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams

If Angels Could be Jealous of Men

If angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion - St. Maximilian Kolbe

The Lord has Turned all our Sunsets into Sunrises

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrises. - St. Clement of Alexandria

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Some Virgins Are Nothing But Tavern Women

Some virgins are nothing but tavern women. - St. Jerome

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If you are Discouraged it is a Sign of Pride Because it Shows you Trust in Your Own Power

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that. - Blessed Mother Teresa

Determining Life

The unborn baby's heart starts beating at 20 days and the brain gives off brainwaves at 40 days. If these factors are used by the law to determine death, why can't they be used to determine life?

The Truth is Like Medicine

The truth is like medicine. It is sometimes difficult to take, but it does wonders when it kicks in.

So Hidden in Christ

A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her. - Maya Angelou

We are too Timid to Endure Responsibilities

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities. - G.K. Chesterton

If a Man Lies With a Male as With a Woman, Both of Them Have Forfeited Their Lives

If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death. If a man disgraces his father by lying with his father's wife, both the man and his stepmother shall be put to death; they have forfeited their lives. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; since they have committed an abhorrent deed, they have forfeited their lives. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives. If a man marries a woman and her mother also, the man and the two women as well shall be burned to death for their shameful conduct, so that such shamefulness may not be found among you. If a man has carnal relations with an animal, the man shall be put to death, and the animal shall be slain. If a woman goes up to any animal to mate with it, the woman and the animal shall be slain; let them both be put to death; their lives are forfeit. - Leviticus 20:10-16

None Will Miscarry or be Barren in Your Land

Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span. - Exodus 23:25-26

The Thing he did Displeased the Lord

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also. - Genesis 38:9-10

Be Fertile

Be fertile and multiple; fill the earth - Genesis 9:1; 35:11

Strive to Enter Through the Narrow Gate, For Many, I Tell You, will Attempt to Enter but Will not be Strong Enough

Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will say to you in reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ And you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’ Then he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers!’ And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.” - Luke 13:22-30

Strive to Enter Through the Narrow Gate, For Many, I Tell You, will Attempt to Enter but Will not be Strong Enough.

Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will say to you in reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ And you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’ Then he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers!’ And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.

Let Them Discourse of the Glory of Your Kingdom

...Let your faithful ones bless you. Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom and speak of your might.

The Word of God Penetrates Even to Dividing Soul and Spirit

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. - Hebrews 4:12

Through Humble Contrite Prayer You Lose Nothing but Gain Much

Know that as often as you come to me, humbling yourself and asking My forgiveness, I pour out a super abundance of Grace on your Soul, and your Imperfection vanishes before My Eyes, and I see only your love and your humility. You lose nothing but gain much. - Jesus to the soul

The Unmarried Man is Anxious About the Affairs of the Lord, How to Please the Lord; but the Married Man is Anxious About Worldly Affairs, how to Please his Wife, and his Interests are Divided

Fundamentalists will tell you that celibacy has no basis in the Bible whatsoever, saying that Christians are called to "Be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28). This mandate speaks to humanity in general, however, and overlooks numerous passages in the Bible that support the celibate life. In 1 Corinthians, for example, Paul actually seems to prefer the celibate life: "Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage...Those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that...The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord; but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided" (7:27-34). This is not to say that all men should be celibate, however; Paul explains that celibacy is a calling for some and not for others by saying, "Each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another" (7:7).

The Happiness you have a Right to Enjoy has a Name and a Face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, Hidden in the Eucharist

Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. Only He gives the fullness of life to humanity! - Pope Benedict XVI

Consoled by the Presence of the Angels and Saints

He who is in the habit of devoutly hearing holy Mass shall in death be consoled by the presence of the angels and saints, his advocates, who shall bravely defend him from all the snares of infernal spirits. - Revelation of Christ to St. Mechtilde

If God had Something More Precious, He Would Have Given it to us

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. - Saint Marie Jean Vianney

If we Really Understood the Mass, we Would Die of Joy

If we really understood the Mass, we would die of joy. - Saint Jean Marie Vianney

The Heavens Open and Multitudes of Angels Come

The heavens open and multitudes of angels come to assist in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. - St. Gregory

As Valuable as the Death of Jesus on the Cross

The celebration of the Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross. - St. Thomas Aquinas

The Mass is the Most Perfect Form of Prayer

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer. - Pope Paul VI

May Each Second of Each Passing Hour be Acts of Love for Your Tabernacles

O my Jesus, I want that each pain I feel, each beat of my heart, each breath I take in, each second of each passing hour may be acts of love for your Tabernacles - Blessed Alexandria Maria da Costa

Jesus, I Give You my Hand, Please Don't Let go of me

Jesus, I give You my hand as I stumble through the hard places of my life. Please don't let go of me, even if at times I seem to pull away from You. Help me know that You are close and that You always offer me the gifts of growth and healing that I need in these hard times. I may need to seek help from others to find my way and to learn from the stresses in my life. Please work through these people to guide me. - Joan Guntzelman

The Last Best Hope of Man on Earth

‎We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. - Ronald Reagan

The Lord Will Guide You Continually

The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places. - Isaiah 58:11

We Do Not Belong to the Night or to Darkness

It is not as if you live in the dark, my brothers, for that Day to overtake you like a thief. No, you are all sons of light and sons of the day: we do not belong to the night or to darkness. - 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5

Be Forgiving of one Another, as God in Christ Forgave You

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. - Ephesians 4:32

Delight is in the Law of the Lord

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. - Psalm 1: 1, 2

No Immoral or Impure Man, or one Who is Covetous has any Inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God

But immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints. Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, and idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. - Ephesians 5: 3-5

Truth is a Discovery of the One Who Never Fails Us

‎Truth is not an imposition. Nor is it simply a set of rules. It is a discovery of the One who never fails us; the One whom we can always trust...seeking truth we come to live by belief because ultimately truth is a person: Jesus Christ...authentic freedom is not an opting out. It is an opting in - nothing less than letting go of self and allowing oneself to be drawn into Christ's very being for others. - Pope Benedict XVI

Existence is Like a Gift Given From Cause to Effect

Existence is like a gift given from cause to effect. If there is no one who has the gift, the gift cannot be passed down the chain of receivers, however long or short the chain may be. If everyone has to borrow a certain book, but no one actually has it, then no one will ever get it. If there is no God who has existence by his own eternal nature, then the gift of existence cannot be passed down the chain of creatures and we can never get it. But we do get it; we exist. Therefore there must exist a God: an Uncaused Being who does not have to receive existence like us—and like every other link in the chain of receivers. - Dr. Peter Kreeft

All the Power that You Think You Posses, You Really Posses None of it

Don't you realize that you cannot make your own heart beat? Don't you realize that all the power that you think you posses, you really posess none of it. It is The mercy of God that sustains you...even while you hate Him. - Gianna Jessen (Abortion Survivor)

The Creator of The Heavens Obeys a Carpenter

He Who is the beginning and the end, the ruler of the angels, made Himself obedient to human creatures. The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant. - St. Anthony of Padua

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Christ Commands Perfection

Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. - Jesus Christ

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Reputation vs. Humble Practice of Virtue

We ought to have charity for all men but familiarity with all is not expedient. Sometimes it happens that a person enjoys a good reputation among those who do not know him, but at the same time is held in slight regard by those who do. Frequently we think we are pleasing others by our presence and we begin rather to displease them by the faults they find in us. - Imitation

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The Humble Live in Continuous Peace, While in the Hearts of the Proud are Envy and Frequent Anger

Do not think yourself better than others lest, perhaps, you be accounted worse before God Who knows what is in man. Do not take pride in your good deeds, for God's judgments differ from those of men and what pleases them often displeases Him. If there is good in you, see more good in others, so that you may remain humble. It does no harm to esteem yourself less than anyone else, but it is very harmful to think yourself better than even one. The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger. - Imitation

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The Proud are Those Who Have Not the Holy Spirit

Those who have the Holy Spirit cannot endure themselves, so well do they know their poor misery. The proud are those who have not the Holy Spirit. - Saint Jean Marie Vianney

Lead me to the Cross Where Your Love Poured Out

Lead me to the cross where Your love poured out. Bring me to my knees, Lord I lay me down. Rid me of myself, I belong to You. Lead me, lead me to the cross. - Chris and Conrad

For Your Nearness, Lord I Hunger. For Your Nearness, Lord I Wait

For Your nearness, Lord I hunger. For your nearness, Lord I wait. Hold me ever closer, Father, with such a Love I can’t escape. For Your nearness I am hoping. For Your nearness Lord, I long. I have no need of any other. I have found where I belong. - Meredith Andrews

How Great is the Happiness of the Devout Soul that Feasts Upon You at Your Banquet

O Most sweet Lord Jesus, how great is the happiness of the devout soul that feasts upon You at Your banquet, where there is set before her to be eaten no other food but Yourself alone, her only Lover, most desired of all that her heart can desire! - Imitation of Christ

You Can Have all This World, Just Give me Jesus

In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus. You can have all this world, just give me Jesus. - Jeremy Camp

Gain More in a Quarter of an Hour of Prayer Before the Blessed Sacrament Than in all Other Practices of the Day

Realize that you may gain more in a quarter of an hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament than in all other practices of the day. - Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Your Entire Glory in Heaven: Dependent on How You Carried Your Cross

Your entire glory in heaven will be dependent on how you carried your cross. - Mother Angelica

When God Loves, All He Desires is to be Loved in Return

Love is sufficient of itself; it gives pleasure by itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect beyond itself. Its profit lies in the practice. Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return. The sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him. - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Now, Turn Back and Search For Him Ten Times as Hard

As by your will you first strayed away from God, so now turn back and search for him ten times as hard; for as he brought down those disasters on you, so will he rescue you and give you eternal joy. - Baruch 4:28-29

You are the Song I Sing; I’ll do Anything for You

Lord, it’s hard to know You. I don’t always see Your plan...but holiness is calling me...so take me as I am. You are my everything, You are the song I sing; I’ll do anything for You. Teach me how to pray, to live a life of grace; I’ll go anywhere with You. Jesus, be my everything. Lord, I get so tired of the struggle within. I settle in complacency and I’m weighed down in my sin. So lead me past emotion, ‘cause they change with the wind. I want to be a true disciple and to daily choose Your hand. - Matt Maher

They Do Not Give a Thought to Their Poor Soul, Which Must be Happy or Miserable for all Eternity

Oh, how bitterly shall we regret at the hour of death the time we have given to pleasures, to useless conversations, to repose, instead of having employed it in mortification, in prayer, in good works, in thinking of our poor misery, in weeping over our poor sins; then we shall see that we have done nothing for Heaven. Oh, my children, how sad it is! Three-quarters of those who are Christians labor for nothing but to satisfy this body, which will soon be buried and corrupted, while they do not give a thought to their poor soul, which must be happy or miserable for all eternity. - Saint Jean Marie Vianney

If You Want God to Hear Your Prayers, Hear the Voice of the Poor

If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it. - Saint Thomas of Villanova

You Cannot Have God for Your Father if You Don’t Have the Church for Your Mother

You cannot have God for your Father if you don’t have the Church for your Mother. God is one and Christ is one, and His Church is one. - Saint Cyprian

What the Soul is in the Body, Let Christians be in the World

What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world. - Saint John Chrysostom

Through Mary, Jesus came to us; Through Her We Should Go to Him.

Through Mary, Jesus came to us; through her we should go to him. If we are afraid of going directly to Jesus, who is God, because of his infinite greatness, or our lowliness, or our sins, let us implore without fear the help and intercession of Mary, our Mother. She is kind, she is tender, and there is nothing harsh or forbidding about her, nothing too sublime or too brilliant. When we see her, we see our own human nature at its purest. She is not the sun, dazzling our weak sight by the brightness of its rays. Rather, she is fair and gentle as the moon, which receives its light from the sun and softens it and adapts it to our limited perception. - St. Louis de Montfort

Perfection Consists in One Thing Alone, Which is Doing the Will of God.

Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord’s words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills. - St. Vincent de Paul

The Best Proof of Genuine Love: Sanctification

You husbands and fathers say you love your wives and children. OK, I am going to take you seriously. Now if you love them really (that is, for their genuine welfare and not simply for what you can get from them, or whether they do or do not return your love as you would like it to be returned) - I repeat, if you love them really, then prove it in the best way possible: become a saint, get rid of your faults, love totally. The best proof of genuine love is found in the example of an exemplary life: a tremendous spur to their eternal enthrallment, and yours as well. - Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M.

No Tongue can Express the Greatness of the Love Which Jesus Christ Bears to Our Souls

No tongue can express the greatness of the love which Jesus Christ bears to our souls. He did not wish that between Him and His servants there should be any other pledge than himself, to keep alive the remembrance of Him. - St. Peter of Alcantara

He Has Marked You With His Seal to be Set Free

Guard against foul talk; let your words be for the improvement of others, as occasion offers, and do good to your listeners, otherwise you will only be grieving the Holy Spirit of God who has marked you with his seal for you to be set free when the day comes. Never have grudges against others, or lose your temper, or raise your voice to anybody, or call each other names, or allow any sort of spitefulness. Be friends with one another, and kind, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ. - Ephesians 4:29-32

Hold Fast to the Traditions

Hold fast to the traditions that we have taught you, both by word of mouth and by letter.” - 2 Thess. 2:15

United in Love

Be united in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common mind. There must be no competition among you, no conceit; but everybody is to be self-effacing. Always consider the other person to be better than yourself, so that nobody thinks of his own interests first but everybody thinks of other people’s interests instead. - Philippians 2:2-4

The Lord Will Guard Your Life

The Lord will guard you from all harm; the Lord will guard your life. The Lord will guard your coming and your going both now and for ever. - Psalm 121

The Lord's Eyes are Drawn to the Humble and Contrite

Thus says the Lord: With heaven my throne and earth my footstool, what house could you build me, what place could you make for my rest? All of this was made by my hand and all this is mine – it is the Lord who speaks. But my eyes are drawn to the man of humbled and contrite spirit, who trembles at my word. - Isaiah 66:1-2

An Abomination in the Eyes of the Father

I repeat, My child, that much discipline will be needed. The manner of clothing that We see being permitted by the parents to be worn by their children is an abomination in the eyes of the Father. They are sinful, they are degrading and they lead others into sin. Cover your bodies for they are temples of the Holy Spirit. - Our Lady of the Roses 1974

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Discussion of Worldly Affairs is a Great Distraction

Shun the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.

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My Only Joy in Him

I felt the desire of loving only God, of finding my joy only in Him. Often during my communions, I repeated these words of the Imitation: "O Jesus, unspeakable sweetness, change all the consolations of this earth into bitterness for me" - St. Therese

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No Peace in the Carnal Man

True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them. There is no peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and spiritual man. - Imitation

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Impossible to Please God and the World

Besides, what love for God can be felt by anyone who is thinking and breathing nothing but the love of pleasures and of creatures? You will admit that it is impossible to please God and the world. That can never be. - St. Jean Marie Vianney

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The Proud Are Those Who Have Not The Holy Spirit

Those who have the Holy Spirit cannot endure themselves, so well do they know their poor misery. The proud are those who have not the Holy Spirit. - St. Jean Marie Vianney

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Holiness Means Intimacy With The Lord

Holiness means none other than union with God; a greater intimacy with the Lord, more sanctity. - St. Jose Maria Escriva

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Sins of the Flesh

More people go to hell for sins of the flesh than for any other reason. - Our Lady of Fatima, 1917

Immodesty Offends The Lord

Certain fashions are being introduced that offend Our Lord very much. - Our Lady of Fatima, 1917

Heaven Has Entrusted You With These Children

O Christian mothers, if you knew what a future of anxieties and perils, of ill-guarded shame you prepare for your sons and daughters, imprudently getting them accustomed to live scantily dressed and making them lose the sense of modesty, you would be ashamed of yourselves and you would dread the harm you are making of yourselves, the harm which you are causing these children, whom Heaven has entrusted to you to be brought up as Christians. - Pope Pius XII

To Immodest Women

"You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not, indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment. When you have made another sin in his heart, how can you be innocent? Tell me, whom does this world condemn? Whom do judges punish? Those who drink poison or those who prepare it and administer the fatal potion? You have prepared the abominable cup, you have given the death dealing drink, and you are more criminal than are those who poison the body; you murder not the body but the soul. And it is not to enemies you do this, nor are you urged on by any imaginary necessity, nor provoked by injury, but out of foolish vanity and pride. - St. John Chrysostom

Style Must Never be a Proximate Occasion of Sin

Yet, no matter how broad and changeable the relative morals of styles may be, there is always an absolute norm to be kept...style must never be a proximate occasion of sin. - Pope Pius XII

Glorify God in Your Body

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

The Good of Our Soul is More Important Than the Good of Our Body

The good of our soul is more important than the good of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. If a certain kind of dress constitutes grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up. - Pope Pius XII

The Beauty of the King's Daughter is From Within

The less beauty the soul has, the more it needs to decorate the body. Excessive luxury of dress and vain display of external beauty are signs of the nakedness of the soul. The beauty of the King's daughter is from within. - Fulton Sheen

May the Last Beat of My Heart be a Loving Hymn Glorifying Your Unfathomable mercy

O Christ, let my greatest delight be to see You loved and Your praise and glory proclaimed, especially the honor of Your mercy. O Christ, let me glorify Your goodness and mercy to the last moment of my life, with every drop of my blood and every beat of my heart. Would that I be transformed into a hymn of adoration of You. When I find myself on my deathbed, may the last beat of my heart be a loving hymn glorifying Your unfathomable mercy. Amen. - St. Faustina

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Embrace Infirmities With Joy

If bodily weakness renders us unable to practice corporal austerities, let us at least learn...to embrace with joy the infirmities with which Almighty God visits us. If borne with patience, they will conduct us to perfection better than voluntary works of penance. St. Syncletica used to say, that 'as corporal maladies are cured by medicine, so the diseases of the soul are healed by the infirmities of the body.' - Saint Alphonsus De Ligouri

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"Penance, penance, penance!"

"Penance, penance, penance!" These were the words of the angel at Fatima, calling the world to begin doing penance once again. Indeed, the call to penance and conversion has been the constant appeal of Marian apparitions throughout history, but especially within the past hundred years, which have seen more apparitions than any other century in Christian history. As Our Lady of Fatima implored from us; "Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many times, especially when you make some sacrifice: O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." Thus we see that penance and mortification not only have a sanctifying effect on the individual, but also on the Church as a whole. The more a person's life is patterned after the life of our Redeemer--Who's greatest work entailed the greatest sacrifice--the more he will make up what is lacking in the body of Christ, as Saint Paul tells us. Our Lord instructs Saint Faustina in this regard; Jesus to Saint Faustina: "You will save more souls through prayer and suffering than will a missionary through his teachings and sermons alone.'"

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Source of Holiness

If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life. - St. Gregory of Nyssa

The Words of the Lord

Make yourself a capacity and I will make myself a torrent. - Our Lord to Blessed Angela of Foligno

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Genuine Love

Attraction towards others does not become love until we have accepted the christic message and also been cleansed of self-seeking - then genuine love is possible. - Fr. Thomas Dubay

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No One in History or in Fiction Begins to Compare With the Lord

No one in history or in fiction begins to compare with the Lord of glory on his Cross: the splendor of his person, his message, his love. - Fr. Thomas Dubay

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Face to Face With Christ Crucified

It is face to face with Christ crucified that the abysmal egoism of what we are accustomed to call love becomes clear. - Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Gospel Revolution

The gospel is not simply an improvement on secular-minded ethics. It is a revolution. - Fr. Thomas Dubay

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Eternal Ecstasy vs. Eternal Disaster

In everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable. Here on earth we begin to experience what will issue in eternal ecstasy or eternal disaster. - Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M.

Filled With a Glorious Joy

You are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described. - 1 St. Peter 1:8

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Never Will Anyone Who Says the Rosary Everyday Be Led Astray

Never will anyone who says the Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement I would gladly sign in my blood. - Saint Louis de Montefort

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No One in This World is Worthy of the Eucharist

Do not say that you are not worthy of it. It is true, you are not worthy of it; but you are in need of it. If Our Lord had regarded our worthiness, He would never have instituted His beautiful Sacrament of love: for no one in the world is worthy of it, neither the saints, nor the angels, nor the archangels, nor the Blessed Virgin; but He had in view our needs, and we are all in need of it. - St. Jean Marie Vianney

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How Sweet a Life is This Life of Union With the Good God

O man, how great thou art! Fed with the Body and Blood of a God! Oh, how sweet a life is this life of union with the good God! It is Heaven upon earth; there are no more troubles, no more crosses! - St. Jean Marie Vianney

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Drowned in Love

My children, we know when a soul has worthily received the Sacrament of the Eucharist, it is so drowned in love, so penetrated and changed, that it is no longer to be recognised in its words or its actions. - St. Jean Marie Vianney

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God Will Not Refuse You Anything if You Offer Him His Son

Make a prayer when you have the good God in your heart; the good God will not be able to refuse you anything, if you offer Him His Son, and the merits of His holy death and Passion. - St. Jean Marie Vianney

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Nothing So Great as the Eucharist

There is nothing so great, my children, as the Eucharist! Put all the good works in the world against one good Communion; they will be like a grain of dust beside a mountain. - St. Jean Marie Vianney

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The Gift of Unending Love

I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love. - St. Ignatius of Antioch

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When My Flesh is United With Yours

Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.

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Except for His Most Holy Body and Blood

In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood. - St. Francis of Assisi

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This is My Body

Since Christ Himself has said, 'This is My Body' who shall dare to doubt that It is His Body? - St. Cyril of Jerusalem

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Sublime Humility

"What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation."

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The Purer We Are, The More We Recieve

"O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive." - St. Ephraem

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The Eucharist in All Things

Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things! - St. Peter Julian Eymard

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Radical Love

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! - St. Augustine of Hippo

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Bear One Another's Burdens, and so Fulfill the Law of Christ.

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. - Galatians 6:1-3

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Lead a Life Worthy of the Calling to Which You Have Been Called

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. - Ephesians 4:1-3

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Put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds; they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart; they have become callous and have given themselves up to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness. You did not so learn Christ! -- assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus. Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. - Ephesians 4:17-24

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If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would. But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are plain: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy,* drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another. - Galatians 5:16-26

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Reap Eternal Life

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. - Galatians 6:8

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