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'Keep careful watch, to ensure that the enemy does not make off with any who are off guard or remiss; and that no heretic may pervert part of what you have been given. Accepting the faith is like putting into the bank the money we have given you; God will ask you for an account of this deposit.'

St. Cyril of Jerusalem

                                {A} Orchid Judge Philip   
                                {B} An orchid hybrid     
                                {C} Sirach Chapter 35 Verse 12   
                                         for the Lord is a judge who is utterly impartial   
 
                                   

'One day, two Protestant ministers came here, who did not believe in the Real Presence of Our Lord. I said to them, "Do you think that a piece of bread could detach itself, and go, of its own accord, to place itself on the tongue of a person who came near to receive it?" "No." "Then it is not bread." There was a man who had doubts about the Real Presence, and he said, "What do we know about it? It is not certain. What is consecration? What happens on the altar at that moment?" But he wished to believe, and he prayed the Blessed Virgin to obtain faith for him. Listen attentively to this. I do not say that this happened somewhere, but I say that it happened to myself. At the moment when this man came up to receive Holy Communion, the Sacred Host detached Itself from my fingers while I was still a good way off, and went off Itself and placed Itself upon the tongue of that man.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

'So blessed are you if you persevere in doing good, neither seeking nor desiring any consolation, for as St. Bernard says: To serve God is nothing else than to do good and suffer evil, and the rule of the true servant of Christ is never to receive consolation except in time of great necessity. This is the secure way; for whoever wants to go to God through sweetness and consolation is deceived.'

St. Catherine of Bologna

'Being Master, He became a servant, and so revealed to the world the depths of His providence.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

'Our enemy employs no surer artifice for banishing true charity from the hearts of God's servants, than to make them rule themselves in spiritual matters, not with calmness and reason, but thoughtlessly and with all the unrestrained violence of their passions.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Petershausen Abbey was founded as an exempt abbey named after Saint Peter in 983 by Bishop Gerhard of Constance.   
It was located in Baden-Wurttemberg.

'For the love of Jesus Christ, forget the past, like St. Paul, and keep your thoughts incessantly fixed on the great distance yet remaining before you reach the way of perfection.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

'If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.'

St. Isidore of Seville

The original cathedral of the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina was named in honor of St. Finbar 
and remained standing until the Great Fire of Charleston during the Civil War.