Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Give to your little girls these three things to remember: "There is only one God. Only one soul. Only one eternity."'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

[Shin]

'Avoid the heretic, after a first and second correction, knowing that such a man is subverted and sins, since he is condemned by his own judgment.'

Titus 3, 10-11

[Shin]

'If you follow neither rule nor measure, you turn the good into evil, virtue into vice.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you, to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of Our Lord God unto riotousness, and denying their only Sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.'

Jude 3-4

[Shin]

'Jesus, keep me under the standard of your cross. May the crucifix not be just something I wear, something I look at, but let it be alive in my heart. Let me be transformed into a living crucifixion, in union with you through the Eucharist. By meditating on your life and the most intimate feelings of your heart, let me draw souls to you from high on this cross where your love holds me forever.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'While passions such as forgetfulness and ignorance affect but one of the soul's three aspects - the incensive, the desiring or the intelligent - listlessness alone seizes control of all the soul's powers and rouses almost all the passions together. That is why this passion is more serious than all the others. Hence our Lord has given us an excellent remedy against it, saying: "You will gain possession of your souls through your patient endurance' (Luke 21:19).'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'When we misuse the soul's powers their evil aspects dominate us. For instance, misuse of our power of intelligence results in ignorance and stupidity; misuse of our incensive power and of our desire produces hatred and licentiousness. The proper use of these powers produces spiritual knowledge, moral judgment, love and self-restraint. This being so, nothing created and given existence by God is evil.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'We should always look to God as in ourselves, no matter in what manner we meditate upon Him, so as to accustom ourselves to dwell in His divine presence. For when we behold Him within our souls, all our powers and faculties, and even our senses, are recollected within us. If we look at God apart from ourselves we are easily distracted by exterior objects.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'He who is easily overcome by the lesser will inevitably be enslaved by the greater. But he who is superior to the lesser will also with the Lord's help resist the greater.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Evil thoughts are an abomination to the Lord: and pure words most beautiful shall be confirmed by him.'

Proverbs 15:26

[Shin]

'The experience of suffering afflicts the senses; distress annuls sensual pleasure.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'Take every opportunity to pour oil and wine on wounds as Jesus did, not vinegar, and without regard to person. Or like Jesus, reach out to the poorest, to those who are suffering most, to the most humble, the most abandoned. In the future, be more charitable to others, recognize both their physical and spiritual poverty.

For love of Jesus and to glorify God, I will generously accept privations, suffering and mortifications as Jesus and Mary did.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[Shin]

'Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.'

St. Louis Marie de Montfort

[Shin]

'The air that we breathe, the bread that we eat, the heart which throbs in our bosoms, are not more necessary for man that he may live as a human being, than is prayer for the Christian that he may live as a Christian.'

St. Jean Eudes

[Shin]

'Make haste, I beseech you, and rather cut than loosen the rope by which your bark is bound fast to the land; that is, break at once all ties that bind you to the world.'

St. Jerome

[Shin]

'Let all our actions be directed to the end that God may be glorified in all things.'

St. Benedict