Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'He who accepts present afflictions in the expectation of future blessings has found knowledge of the truth; and he will easily be freed from anger and remorse.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Take good care of the service of the poor. Above all, live together in great union and cordiality, loving one another in imitation of the union and life of our Lord. Pray earnestly to the Blessed Virgin, that she might be your only Mother.'

St. Louise de Marillac

[Shin]

'In cutting out gluttony, beware lest you seek the esteem of others, making a display of the pallor of your face.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'Those only, on whom Jesus deigns to look, can detest their sins.'

St. Ambrose of Milan

[Shin]

'He not only delivered us from death's possession, but also, having washed us from our sins by his own blood, he made us a kingdom (of heaven) and priests to his God and Father.'

St. Theodore the Studite

[Shin]

'Love! love! love! my daughters; I know nothing else.'

St. Jane Frances de Chantal

[Shin]

'Every wish of a rational creature should be subject to the will of God.'

St. Anselm of Canterbury, 'Cur Deus Homo'

[Shin]

'There are two lives in us, the natural and the supernatural; the one or the other must of necessity obtain ascendancy over us. If the first, we are culpable, but if the second, it rules and sanctifies everything.'

Bl. Peter Julian Eymard

[Shin]

'Total dispassion renders our conceptual images passion-free: perfect spiritual knowledge brings us into the presence of Him who is utterly beyond knowledge.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'It seems to me that the Divine and Sovereign Goodness wishes to give you in His kingdom a most plentiful and munificent reward for the service you render Him; since for the good deeds for which others receive at least a little consolation in return, even as regards man, you have known only pain and most extraordinary contradictions.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Let us now imagine to ourselves the Divine Mother standing -- near her Son expiring on the cross, and justly applying to herself the words of Jeremias, thus addressing us: "O all ye that pass by the way attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow." O you who spend your lives upon earth, and pity me not, stop awhile to look at me, now that I behold this beloved Son dying before my eyes; and then see if, amongst all those who are afflicted and tormented, a sorrow is to be found like unto my sorrow. "No, O most suffering of all mothers," replies Saint Bonaventure, "no more bitter grief than thine can be found; for no son more dear than thine can be found." Ah, "there never was a more amiable son in the world than Jesus," says Richard of Saint Lawrence; "nor has there ever been a mother who more tenderly loved her son than Mary! But since there never has been in the world a love like unto Mary's love, how can any sorrow be found like unto Mary's sorrow?"'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'Brethren and fathers, now that we have fasted for the first week we appear to each other somewhat different to what we were, leaner and paler. But even if our outward nature is wasting away, as the Apostle says, the inner is being renewed day by day. For what it is to see a body healthy-looking and sleek through pleasure; this it is to understand what follows for the soul through self-mastery, so that by humbling the body we shall bring about the beauty of the soul. . .'

St. Theodore the Studite

[Shin]

'There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'You have only to unite yourself in all that you do to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ. At the beginning of your actions, make His dispositions your own, and at the end offer His merits as satisfaction. For instance you cannot pray: Be satisfied to unite yourself with the prayer our divine Saviour makes for us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, and offer His ardor to make reparation for your lukewarmness. Say before each of your actions: My God I will do or suffer this in the Sacred Heart of Thy divine Son, and according to His most holy intentions, which I offer Thee to atone for all that is imperfect in mine.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'When our Lord inspires us with some good deed, He also gives the strength to do it.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque