Quote for the Day

[Shin]

The holy children!

[Shin]

'Because eternal beatitude surpasses the natural state, especially since it has been deprived of original grace, it is the little number that are saved.'

St. Thomas Aquinas

[Shin]

'In order to preserve holy purity it is necessary to love it much, to distrust one's self, to be cautious with all-in a word, it is necessary to fear and to fly.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Therese]

'In order to preserve holy purity it is necessary to love it much, to distrust one's self, to be cautious with all-in a word, it is necessary to fear and to fly.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Very good advise!  Remaining in one's cell or room and being content there in prayer and spiritual reading and chores is better for preserving holy purity than being exposed to the world and its dangers and tempted by other people who are passing by.

[Shin]

'We must say to ourselves, "O Lord, Thou hast wrought all our works in us." [Is. 26:12] Because this is really so you must attribute every good work to Him and not to yourself. Bear in mind that "you in your own might and in the strength of your own hand" [c.f. Deut. 8:17] have not attained to all the good things you possess. "It is the Lord who made us and not we ourselves." [c.f. Ps. 99:3]'

St. Bonaventure

[Shin]

'As the flesh is nourished by food, so is man supported by prayers.'

St. Augustine

[Therese]

'We must say to ourselves, "O Lord, Thou hast wrought all our works in us." [Is. 26:12] Because this is really so you must attribute every good work to Him and not to yourself. Bear in mind that "you in your own might and in the strength of your own hand" [c.f. Deut. 8:17] have not attained to all the good things you possess. "It is the Lord who made us and not we ourselves." [c.f. Ps. 99:3]'

St. Bonaventure

Apart from God we can do nothing.  In fact, God is everything and we are nothing, as we are completely dependent on Him for everything, whether we realize this or not.

[Therese]

'As the flesh is nourished by food, so is man supported by prayers.'

St. Augustine

Also, just as we need air to breathe in order to physically sustain us and live, we need to pray in order to spiritually sustain us and live eternally.

[Therese]

'As the flesh is nourished by food, so is man supported by prayers.'

St. Augustine

Also, just as we need air to breathe in order to physically sustain us and live, we need to pray in order to spiritually sustain us and live eternally.  Thus, prayer is like a breathe of life.  I've read something like this before.

[Shin]

It is quite something to meditate on!

[Therese]

It is quite something to meditate on!

St. Alphonsus says that if we pray we'll be saved and that if we don't we'll be damned.  If we pray for another who does not pray it could become possible that they'll begin to pray, have contrition and be saved.  Prayer is so powerful.  We must pray for the salvation of souls, for God wants this and so many souls are going to hell!  We should weep frequently over Christ's Precious Blood being trampled upon and the loss of so many souls.

[Therese]

Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.

- St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), one of the greatest Jesuit theologians, speaking of the Protestants, who were then introducing changes such as vernacular liturgies, the abolition of fasting laws, the removal of statues, and other diminutions of traditional Catholicism.

Just look at what the Conciliar Church has done (e.g. vernacular liturgies, abolition of fasting laws, the removal of statues, and other diminutions of traditional Catholicism).

[Therese]

A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se) ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.

- Saint Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30

[Therese]

The Holy Fathers who have written upon the subject of Antichrist, and the prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception, as far as I know -- and they are the Fathers both of the East and of the West, the Greek and the Latin Church --, all of them unanimously say that in the latter end of the world, during the reign of the Antichrist, the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar will cease.... Then the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it were in the beginning, invisible, hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were, from the face of the earth. Such is the unanimous testimony of the Fathers of the early centuries.

- Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (1808-1892), The Present Crisis of the Holy See (1861)

[odhiambo]

From a Sermon by Saint Peter Chrysologus, Bishop:

Let Christ be Your Helmet
Let Christ be your helmet,
let the cross on your forehead be your unfailing protection.
 Your breastplate should be the knowledge of God that he himself has given you. Keep burning continually the sweet smelling incense of prayer.
 Take up the sword of the Spirit.
Let your heart be an altar.
Then, with full confidence in God, present your body for sacrifice.
God desires not death, but faith; God thirsts not for blood, but for self-surrender;
God is appeased not by slaughter,
 but by the offering of your free will.

[Shin]

This prayer has more meaning to me at this time than if I had heard it in the past I think, I am beginning to understand it a little better.