Quote for the Night

[Shin]

A refuge!

[James - a humble servant]

"If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace."

~ St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'We meet with contradictions everywhere. If only two persons are together they mutually afford each other opportunities of exercising patience, and even when one is alone there will still be a necessity for this virtue, so true it is that our miserable life is full of crosses.'

St. Vincent de Paul

[Shin]

'Be steadfast, Christian giver: give what you may receive, sow what you may reap, scatter what you may gather. Fear not to spend, sigh not over the doubtfulness of the gain. Your substance grows when it is wisely dispensed. Set your heart on the profits due to mercy, and traffic in eternal gains. Your Recompenser wishes you to be munificent, and He who gives that you may have, commands you to spend, saying, "Give, and it shall be given to you." You must thankfully embrace the conditions of this promise. For although you have nothing that you did not receive, yet you cannot fail to have what you give.'

Pope St. Leo the Great

[CyrilSebastian]

                 So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake;   
                 but bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.     
 
                 The Second Letter to Timothy: Chapter 1, Verse 8

[Shin]

'I saw the Son of Man, and he said to me, "Have no fear! I am the First and the Last. I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld."'

Apocalypse 1:17-18

[Shin]

'No more of the world, no more of the world.'

St. Camillus de Lellis

[Shin]

'Model your hearts on that of the divine Infant, that He may vivify you, encourage you, inflame you, sanctify you, render you capable of doing great things for the glory of God; and may the holy Virgin keep you pure with the precious balm of her virtues! Amen.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[James - a humble servant]

Amen !
A good quote to read when you wake in the morning......

[James - a humble servant]

"To confess the Lord by letting oneself be taught by God; to be consumed by love for Christ and his Gospel; to be servants of unity. These, dear brother bishops, are the tasks which the holy apostles Peter and Paul entrust to each of us, so that they can be lived by every Christian."

~ Pope Francis
Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

[Shin]

Let's stick to the saints my friend.

[Shin]

'The spirit of the world is restless and eager to do all things; leave that spirit alone.'

St. Vincent de Paul

[Shin]

'Each degree of prayer presupposes a purification.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'If thou remainest faithful to Me, I will never forsake thee. . . I forgive thy ignorance, because, as yet, thou dost not know Me; but, if thou art faithful to Me and followest Me, I will teach thee to know Me, and I will reveal Myself to thee.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'How earnestly do I desire, if I were able, to celebrate thee, O Patience, queen of all things!

But by my life and manners more than by my words. For thou restest in thy own action and council more than in discourses, and in perfecting rather than in multiplying virtues. Thou art the support of virginity, the secure harbor of widowhood, the guide and directress of the married state, the unanimity of friendship, the comfort and joy of slavery, to which thou art often liberty. By thee, poverty enjoys all, because, content with itself, it bears all. By thee, the prophets were advanced in virtue, and the apostles united to Christ. Thou art the daily crown and mother of the martyrs. Thou art the bulwark of faith, the fruit of hope, and the friend of charity. Thou conductest all the people and all divine virtues, and dishevelled hairs bound up into one knot, for ornament and honor. Happy, eternally happy, is he who shall always possess thee in his soul.'

St. Zeno

[Shin]

'If, as Scripture teaches, everything involuntary has its cause in what is voluntary, man has no greater enemy than himself.'

St. Mark the Ascetic