Quote for the Night

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.

St. Bonaventure tells us that all the Angels in heaven cry out incessantly to her, Sancta, sancta, sancta Maria, Dei Genitrix et Virgo; and that they offer to her millions and millions of times a day the Angelical Salutation, Ave Maria ; prostrating themselves before her, and begging of her, in her graciousness, to honour them with some of her commands.

St. Michael, as St. Augustine says, although the prince of all the heavenly court, is the most zealous in honouring her and causing her to be honoured, while he waits always in expectation that he may have the honour to go, at her bidding, to render service to some one of her servants.

4. Being the way by which Jesus Christ came to us the first time, she will also be the way by which He will come the second time, though not in the same manner.

Mary has produced, together with the Holy Ghost, the greatest thing which has been, or ever will be, which is a God-Man; and she will consequently produce the greatest things that there will be in the latter times.

The formation and education of the great Saints, who shall come at the end of the world, are reserved for her.

I have said that this would come to pass particularly at the end of the world, and indeed presently, because the Most High with His holy Mother has to form for Himself great Saints, who shall surpass most of the other Saints in sanctity, as much as the cedars of Lebanon outgrow the little shrubs, as has been revealed to a holy soul, whose life has been written by a great servant of God.

St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montford.

God Bless you.

[Shin]

'One day, when St. Mechtilde was praying and was trying to think of some way in which she could express her love of the Blessed Virgin better than before, she fell into ecstasy. Our Lady appeared to her with the Angelic Salutation written in letters of gold upon her breast and said to her, "My daughter, I want you to know that no one can please me more than by saying the greeting which the most adorable Trinity presented to me and by which I was raised to the dignity of the Mother of God.'

St. Louis Marie de Montfort

[Shin]

'And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments: is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected; and by this we know that we are in him.'

1 John 2:3-5

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.

Saint Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, in his writings refers to an episode which occurred at the University of Paris. They were the years of maximum prestige of the Athenaeum, when One of his Most Famous Professors Died unexpectedly.

Struck by the tragedy, many colleagues in the teaching profession prayed in suffrage for the sake of his soul. Even the Bishop of Paris, an intimate friend of his, prayed every day for him, so that he would be liberated from Purgatory.

One night, while he was reciting some prayers for the deceased, he appeared to him in an Incandescent form, with a face of Despair. The Bishop, at that moment, understood that his friend was Not in Purgatory, but rather In Hell.

Wanting to know more information about his fate, he asked him among other things,

“In Hell do you still remember about the science for which you were so famous in life?” - St. Alphonso

"What science... what science! In the company of demons we have so much more to think about! These wicked spirits do not give us a moment of respite and they impede us from thinking about any other things that are not our sins and our punishments. These are already terrible and frightful, but the demons embitter them in order to foster in us a continual desperation!” – replied the deceased.

An Event in the Life of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori.

God Bless you.

[Shin]

'Happy the man to whom God has given the science of the saints. [Sap. x. 10.] Oh, how sublime the science which teaches us to know how to love God and to save our souls! Happy, says St. Augustine, is the man "who knows God, although he is ignorant of other things." They who know God, the love which he merits, and how to love him, stand not in need of any other knowledge. They are wiser than those who are masters of many sciences, but know not how to love God.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

The true science to follow above all is the science of the saints! With the consensus of the saints we find the safe path to heaven.

Nowadays however there are people promoting false saints, it is terribly sacrilegious. I hope that everyone will take special care not to reverence wolves in sheep's and shepherd's clothing and promote them and remember to read the Papal documents against modernism.

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

  Peace be with you.

O my Jesus, because of my trust in You,
I weave Thousands of garlands, and I know,
That they will all blossom.
And I know that they will all blossom,
When God's Sun will Shine on them.

  O Great and Divine Sacrament ,
       That veils my God!
       Jesus, be with me each moment,
       And No fear will enter my heart.

Be Adored, O Most Holy Trinity, Now and for All time.
Be Adored in All Your Works and All Your Creatures.
May the Greatness of Your Mercy be Admired and Glorified, O God.

St. Maria Faustina - Helen Kowalska

  God Bless you.

[Shin]

'It is absurd, and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.'

St. Thomas Aquinas

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.

 

Usefulness of Hymns.

1. Sing out, dear soul, sing out,                                   1st point.
    Let us make our song resound.                     Hymns give glory to God.            
    With a most hallowed melody,    
    Heaven and all that is call out to us.

2. Our great and ever joyous God                                 Motives
    From highest heaven hears us,                               1st Motive.
    Hymns he loves eternally,                                  God loves singing.    
    They are the concert of his angels.

3. Listen to the angels singing                                    2nd Motive.
    And let us sing in imitation,                                    Angels sing.
    By their praises they are angels,
    By song shall we be angels too.

4. Aflame with holy fire, day and night                         3rd Motive.
    They sing of God and his glory,                  In singing we become like them.
    And God himself listens.
    Like them let us sing of his wonders.

5. In singing they are ablaze with love,                         4th Motive.
    Let us sing, let us too be afire,                        Singing lights love's fire.
    Through song they fan their flame,
    Let us sing and so kindle our souls.

6. With their melodies the heavens ring out,                 5th Motive.
    Let us be their wondrous echo,                     Earth must answer Heaven.
    Let everyone sing and be glad,
    Let earth become one with heaven.

7. Let us sing, but sing properly,                                  6th Motive.
    So we may sing in highest heaven;           It is proper to the predestined to
    Sing, predestined soul,                                       sing good hymns.
    Sing for our blessed crown.

8. My song is not acclaimed
    By the worldly nor the outcast.
    No matter! They want not to believe;
    To them shall I sing victory!

 

St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montford.

  God Bless you.

[Shin]

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt caeli et terra maiestatis gloriae tuae.

[Shin]

Nunc Dimittis

Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine
Secundum verbum tuum in pace:
Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum
Quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum:
Lumen ad revelationem gentium,
Et gloriam plebis tuae Israel.

Now thou dost dismiss thy servant,
O Lord, according to thy word in peace;
Because my eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples:
A light to the revelation of the Gentiles,
and the glory of thy people Israel.

[Shin]

'O Immaculate Mary! O glorious Saint Joseph! And you, Saint John, beloved disciple of the Divine Heart, teach me the great science of love! May it draw me powerfully! May I soar at last, may I take flight and hasten to lose myself, unite myself and disappear with you in the adorable heart of Jesus, and Jesus Crucified, the divine heart of Charity, purity, self-denial and perfect submission.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'. . . if we want to cast carnal desires from our hearts, we should at once plant spiritual pleasures in their place, so that our mind, always bound to them, might have the wherewithal to abide in them constantly and might spurn the allurements of present and temporal joys.'

St. John Cassian

[Shin]

Vado, et quaeretis me, et in peccato vestro moriemini. -- John viii. 21.
"I go, and you shall seek Me, and you shall die in your sin."

[Shin]

Convertimini ad correptionem meam. En proferam vobis spiritum meum, et ostendam vobis verba mea. Quia vocavi, et renuistis; extendi manum meam, et non fuit qui aspiceret. -- Prov. i. 23, 24.

"Turn ye at my reproof. Behold I will utter My spirit to you, and will show you My words. Because I called, and you refused. I stretched out My hand, and there was none that regarded."

[Shin]

'We always have two secretaries: the devil, who writes down our bad actions, to accuse us of them; and our good angel, who writes down our good ones, to justify us at the Day of Judgment. When all our actions shall be brought before us, how few will be pleasing to God, even among the best of them! So many imperfections, so many thoughts of self-love, human satisfactions, sensual pleasures, self-complacency, will be found mingled with them all! They appear good, but it is only appearance, like those fruits which seem yellow and ripe because they have been pierced by insects.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[Shin]

'After Antichrist has been slain by lightning on Mount Olivet and his death has been made widely known through out the world, this our earth will exist for forty-five more days; I do not say years, but days. This is clearly to be seen in Daniel (12:11) : "And from the time when the continual sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination of desolation shall be set up, there shall be one thousand, two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh unto the one thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days."

The Doctors say that these forty-five days will be given by God for the conversion of those who have been seduced by Antichrist, but Antichrist will have left behind him so great riches and pleasure that hardly any of the nations will be converted to the Faith of Christ. For there is no savior but Christ, and yet they will not be converted.'

St. Vincent Ferrer