Quote for the Day

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A very moving prayer!

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'O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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I was very happy that Fr. Furniss' works could be transcribed for the website. There is still more too, it will be good to read in the future. 


'If, we be not in fault, God will assuredly, by his all-powerful aid, enable us to become saints.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

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'Do you find it an oppressive burden to denounce those who commit these sins? It is an oppressive burden to remain silent. For this silence makes you an enemy to God and brings destruction both to you who conceal such sinners and to those whose sins go unrevealed. How much better it is to become hateful to our fellow servants for saving them to provoke God's anger against yourselves. Even if your fellow servant be vexed with you now, he will not be able to harm you but will be grateful later on for his cure. But if you seek to win your fellow servant's favor, if you remain silent and hurt him by concealing his sin, God will exact from you the ultimate penalty.'

St. John Chrysostom

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

I was very happy that Fr. Furniss' works could be transcribed for the website. There is still more too, it will be good to read in the future.  

Peace be with you.

I look forward to it.  

God bless you.

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.

I often asked myself why God had preferences, why all souls did not receive an equal measure of grace. I was filled with wonder when I saw extraordinary favours showered on great sinners like St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Mary Magdalen, and many others, whom He forced, so to speak, to receive His grace. In reading the lives of the Saints I was surprised to see that there were certain privileged souls, whom Our Lord favoured from the cradle to the grave, allowing no obstacle in their path which might keep them from mounting towards Him, permitting no sin to soil the spotless brightness of their baptismal robe. And again it puzzled me why so many poor savages should die without having even heard the name of God.

Our Lord has deigned to explain this mystery to me. He showed me the book of nature, and I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would lose its springtide beauty, and the fields would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our Lord's living garden. He has been pleased to create great Saints who may be compared to the lily and the rose, but He has also created lesser ones, who must be content to be daisies or simple violets flowering at His Feet, and whose mission it is to gladden His Divine Eyes when He deigns to look down on them. And the more gladly they do His Will the greater is their perfection.

St. Therese of Lisieux

God bless you.

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'Ah! this is the work of love, and I am never sufficiently disposed to lose myself in love.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.

"I have come to teach you the prayer which I made as a young girl when I was still living in the Temple. I resolutely decided in my heart that I wished to have God as father and I made up my mind to do whatever would please him, so that I might find favour in his sight. I made myself learn his law and all the commandments contained in it. In particular I committed to memory three commandments, being eager to keep them with the greatest care and with all my might. These are: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Love your neighbour as yourself (Dt 6:5). Love your friend and hate your enemy" (Lv 19:18 and Mt 5: 3). For I understood that man and angel were good, and my enemy was the devil and, insofar as he is evil, the evil man. From that love of God and neighbour, and from the fear and hatred of the enemy (that is, of the devil and sin), every fulness of grace and virtue has descended to me. That love cannot take root in the human heart unless there is there hatred of the enemy, that is, of the devil and sin. (To be continued another day.)

The Blessed Virgin Mary appearing and speaking to St. Elizabeth of Toss while she was praying with great concentration, reciting the Hail Mary in a loud voice, with much devotion and shedding of tears on the Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord.

God Bless you.

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Beautiful words!

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'God takes particular care to detach those from the fleeting pleasures of this life whom He loves with a love of predilection, by the desires with which He inspires them for the heavenly life, and by the griefs and afflictions which He sends them in this life.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.

O Eternal Love, You command Your Sacred Image to be painted,
And reveal to us the inconceivable fount of Mercy,
You Bless whoever approaches Your Rays,
And a soul all black will turn into Snow.

O Sweet Jesus, it is here You established the Throne of Your Mercy,
To bring Joy and Hope to sinful man,
From Your Open Heart, as from a Pure fount,
Flows Comfort to a Repentant heart and soul.

May Praise and Glory for this Image,
Never cease to stream from man's soul.

May praise and glory for this Image,
Never cease to stream from man's soul,
May praise of God's Mercy pour from every heart,
Now, and at every hour, and Forever and Ever.

St. Maria Faustina - Helen Kowalska

God Bless you.

[James - a humble servant]

Amen

[Gabriel Marie Josef Anton]

Peace be with you.

  St. Gregory says, "There was a very wicked and cruel king. His name was Theodoric. He lived in a town called Ravenna. At the same time there was a holy Pope called John, living in Rome. One day this holy Pope went to the town where Theodoric, the cruel king was living. When Theodoric heard the pope was come, he had him put in prison. He gave him very little to eat, and was very cruel to him. In a few days the good pope died in prison. Very soon after Theodoric had killed the Pope, he killed another good man called Symmachus. Soon after this the cruel king Theodoric died himself. You'll see how God punished him.

There is a little island called Stromboli, with water all around it. On this island there is a great mountain. Fire is often seen coming out of the top of this mountain.

At that time there was a  Holy Hermit living on the island in a little cell or room. On the night that cruel king Theodoric died, it happened that the hermit was looking out his window.

He saw three persons near the top of the fiery mountain. They were persons who were dead. But he had seen them all before. So he knew who they were. There was Theodoric, the cruel king, who had died that night. The other two were Pope John and Symmachus, who had been unjustly killed by Theodoric.

He  saw that Theodoric was in the middle betwixt the other two. When they came to that place where the fire was coming out, he saw  Theodoric leave the other two, and go down into the fiery mountain. Those who had seen the cruel king's injustice saw also his punishment."

St. Gregory the Great

God Bless you.

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An impressive piece of history to hear of!

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'The angel Gabriel was sent; whose name means 'God is my comfort'. . . Whither was he sent? Into a city of Galilee, which means 'a wheel' or 'passing across'. Those who labour in these two, need comfort. A wheel runs - to ruin! The human race ran from sin to sin, and afterwards passed over to hell. So Jeremiah says in Lamentations 1: Juda hath removed her dwelling place, because of her affliction and the greatness of her bondage: she hath dwelt among the nations and she hath found no rest: all her persecutors have taken her in the midst of straits. From the slavery of sin there comes the passing over to the damnation of hell. In such straits, comfort is needed, to turn the wheel, that ran down to death, towards life, and so to the passing over to glory.'

St. Anthony of Padua

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'The man who speaks for God's sake does well; but he who is silent for God's sake also does well.'

St. Poemen