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'What then should a Catholic do if some part of the Church were to separate itself from communion with the universal Faith? What other choice can he make but to prefer to the gangrenous and corrupted member the whole of the body that is sound. And if some new contagion were to try to poison no longer a small part of the Church, but all of the Church at the same time, then he will take the greatest care to attach himself to antiquity which, obviously, can no longer be seduced by any lying novelty.'

St. Vincent of Lerins

'Help one another with the generosity of the Lord, and despise no one. When you have the opportunity to do good, do not let it go by.'

St. Polycarp of Smyrna

'In the warfare of the flesh, only cowards gain the victory; that is to say, those who fly.'

St. Philip Neri

'The reason why the lukewarm run so great a risk of being lost is because tepidity conceals from the soul the immense evil which it causes.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

November 13 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini   
 
St. Frances founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for poor children in schools and hospitals.   
She came to the United States with six Sisters in 1889 to work among the Italian immigrants.

'The two principal dispositions which we should bring to Holy Communion are detachment from creatures, and the desire to receive Our Lord with a view to loving Him more in the future.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed thou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord our God.'

Tobais 4:6

In the Bible when is the town of Bethlehem first mentioned?

     
 

Bethlehem is first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis Chapter 35 Verse 19.   
 
So Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, now Bethlehem.

'We protest before heaven and earth that our glory is in the cross, that it is the source of all our blessings, our every hope, and that it is that which has crowned every saint.'

St. John Chrysostom

'I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.'

St. Teresa of Jesus