Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Blessed the one who keeps in mind the fire that came down on Mount Sinai and the sounds of the trumpets and Moses standing there with fear and trembling and who does not neglect his own salvation.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

[Shin]

'Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

St. Francis de Sales

[Shin]

'He who stands in awe of God searches for the divine principles that God has implanted in creation; the lover of truth finds them.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'In this golden ciborium I put your Sacramental Communions. In this silver ciborium I put your Spiritual Communions. Both ciboriums are quite pleasing to Me.'

The Lord, to St. Catherine of Siena

[Shin]

'We should not wish to see or do anything which could not be done in the presence of God and His creatures, and we shall thus imagine that we are always in His presence.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'The intellect is perfect when transformed by spiritual knowledge; the soul is perfect when permeated by the virtues.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

[Shin]

'When during prayer no conceptual image of anything worldly disturbs your intellect, then know that you are within the realm of dispassion.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Shin]

'Let all our hopes centre in the Infinite Goodness; let us give thanks to our Crucified Love when He deprives us of all human aid, and let us place still greater confidence in His fatherly goodness.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'May the peace of the adorable Heart of Jesus Christ ever fill our hearts, so that nothing may be able to disturb our serenity!'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that their power may be in the tree of life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city.

Without are dogs and sorcerers, and the unchaste, and murderers, and servers of Idols, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.'

Apocalypse 22:13-15

[Shin]

'And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God, and he overthrew the altars of strange service, and the excesses, and brake the statues, and cut down the groves.'

2 Paralipomenon 14:2-3

[Shin]

'What contentment will that Christian enjoy at the hour of death who has left the world to give himself to God; who has denied his senses all unlawful gratifications: and who, if he has on some occasions been wanting, has at last been wise enough afterwards to do worthy penance for it.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before the Lord over throwing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: the Lord is not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake: the Lord is not in the earthquake.  And after the earthquake a fire: the Lord is not in the fire, and after the fire a whistling of a gentle air.

 And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and coming forth stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.'

3 Kings 19:11-14

[Shin]

'If a man has attained to that which the Apostles speaks of "to the pure, everything is pure," (Titus 1:15) he sees himself less than all creatures.'

St. Poemen

[Shin]

'Apply thyself to sacred studies, and fix thy thoughts on the blessings that are of God. Leave temporal things behind, and make for the eternal.'

St. Anselm of Canterbury

[Shin]

'. . . those wounds which were scattered over the body of our Lord, were all united in the single heart of Mary.'

St. Bonaventure