Quote for the Day

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'Keep yourself in the presence of our Lord, not only during prayer, but also at other times, as a disciple before his Master, anxious to do His Will by giving up his own.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'The love of God is a jealous love. One atom of irregular affection for creatures suffices to ruin everything.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'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

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'I have given myself entirely to God, even to the hour of my death, and I feel that I shall die happy if during life I entertain a great love for the Most Blessed Sacrament and for the Blessed Virgin, my Mother.'

Bl. Peter Julian Eymard

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'God's ways are incomprehensible. He uses very sharp files, which penetrate the heart and remove the rust. His files are all spiritual.'

St. Paul of the Cross

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'If we wish to have the love of the Divine Heart as our guest, we must empty and detach our heart from its affection for creatures and for ourselves.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'Those whose circumstances in the world would have assured them an ample fortune, labor in religion with the greater success in promoting the glory of God.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.'

John 15:23

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'. . . nothing in this world represents so well that admirable assembly of the heavenly Jerusalem as a society of religious who are perfectly united to gether by charity. The life they lead is truly heavenly and angelical. Our Lord is truly amongst them: the place they live in is no other than the house of God, and the gate of heaven.'

St. Lawrence Justinian

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'Meanwhile the months passed, and I was not at all better. On the fourth of January the doctors cauterized twelve times. After this I became even worse. In addition to this illness of the spine, on the 28th of January, I began to suffer an insupportable pain in the head. The doctor diagnosed the trouble as a tumor of the brain. Because I was extremely weak there could not be an operation and I became worse every day. On the second of February I confessed and I received Viaticum and awaited the moment for going to Jesus. The doctors, whispering thinking I could not hear, said among themselves that I would not live until midnight. Viva Gesu!'

St. Gemma Galgani

[Shin]

'To work or to suffer is all one to a heart that loves. Let us, then, leave the future to the loving Providence of this divine Heart Which only asks of us fidelity to the present moment.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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'It is in loving the cross that one discovers His Heart, for divine Love does not exist without suffering.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

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'And so, dearly beloved, make firm your resolve, knowing that you cannot do anything greater for your spouse Christ Jesus than persevere and finish under the yoke which you have taken up through him, aware that the enemy sometimes makes the way seem too narrow or too long.'

St. Catherine of Bologna

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'Nothing created can bring to the soul joy equal to that of the Holy Ghost.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

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'Thou wast created for the glory of thy Creator, that, making His praises thy employment, thou mightest ever advance towards Him by the merit of justice in this life, and mightest live happily in the world to come.'

St. Anselm of Canterbury

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'He who relies on theoretical knowledge alone is not yet a faithful servant: a faithful servant is one who expresses his faith in Christ through obedience to His commandments.'

St. Mark the Ascetic