Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'A righteous person is a victim and his life a continual sacrifice. For love of Jesus, I will fight against my own desires even in the most insignificant matters.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'Holy Communion is the most efficacious means of uniting the soul to God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'A spiritual communion acts on the soul as blowing does on a cinder - covered fire which was about to go out. Whenever you feel your love of God growing cold, quickly make a spiritual communion.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[Shin]

'When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut you off from love and place you in the realm of hatred.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'I have good hopes of converting the erring ones; still they will put me to death. It is certain!'

St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, martyr

[Shin]

'Let us continue the fight on the day of the Lord. The days of anguish and of tribulation have overtaken us; if God so wills, "let us die for the holy laws of our fathers," so that we may deserve to obtain an eternal inheritance with them.'

St. Boniface

[Shin]

'God takes especial delight in the humility of a man who believes that he has not yet begun to do any good.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'Wickedness is an intricate net; and if someone is careless when partially entangled, he gets completely enmeshed.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'An intellect dominated by the passions thinks base thoughts; words and actions bring these thoughts into the open. '

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'Prevent your intellect from pursuing sensible things, so that it does not reap the fruits of pleasure and pain which they produce.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'What beautiful thoughts come to me as I meditate now on our Redeemer, whose feast of the Most Sacred Heart we are about to celebrate very soon. That most Sacred Heart teaches us two truths in particular, that is, humility, as he says discite, etc. and holy love, symbolized in those flames surrounding the Sacred Divine Heart. Ignem veni mittere in terram, etc. [I have come to cast fire on the earth, etc.] So, let us then place ourselves before him and ask him to sanctify our hearts and supply us with all that we need.'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

[Shin]

'I have my room, some books and a nearby chapel. That is complete happiness.'

St. Miguel of Ecuador

[Shin]

'I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus himself in perfect safety.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'For the greater glory of God, the important thing is not to do many things, but to do all things well.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'Perfect love does not split up the single human nature, common to all, according to the diverse characteristics of individuals; but, fixing attention always on this single nature, it loves all men equally. It loves the good as friends and the bad as enemies, helping them, exercising forbearance, patiently accepting whatever they do, not taking the evil into account at all but even suffering on their behalf if the opportunity offers, so that, if possible, they too become friends. If it cannot achieve this, it does not change its own attitude; it continues to show the fruits of love to all men alike. It was on account of this that our Lord and God Jesus Christ, showing His love for us, suffered for the whole of mankind and gave to all men an equal hope of resurrection, although each man determines his own fitness for glory or punishment.'

St. Maximos the Confessor