Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'This is the mark of Christianity -- however much a man toils, and however many righteousnesses he performs, to feel that he has done nothing, and in fasting to say, "This is not fasting," and in praying, "This is not prayer," and in perseverance at prayer, "I have shown no perseverance; I am only just beginning to practice and to take pains"; and even if he is righteous before God, he should say, "I am not righteous, not I; I do not take pains, but only make a beginning every day."'

St. Macarius the Great

Let us make a beginning this new day my friends!

[Shin]

'They who labor in God's vineyard ought to have as it were only one foot resting on earth, the other continually raised to walk in the way of our Lord.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[odhiambo]

'Do not grow conceited if you shed tears when you pray. For it is Christ who has touched your eyes and given you spiritual sight.'
St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

It's a beautiful quote isn't it?

[Therese]

"Today I am no longer in myself. I am with my God; all for Him, and He all in me and for me, Jesus is with me, He is all mine. He is alone, alone, and I am alone to bless Him, alone to pay Him court. He dwells in the miserable cell of my heart and His Majesty disappears. We are alone, alone, and my heart beats continually with that of Jesus. Jesus forever! The Heart of Jesus and my heart are one and the same thing. A moment does not pass without my feeling His dear presence always manifesting Him­self in the most loving way." And on another occasion- “Oh, what precious moments these are! It is a delight that can only be compared to the heavenly beatitude of the Angels and Saints. Yes, I am happy, because I feel my heart beat with Yours. I am happy because I possess Thee, oh Jesus. Oh Jesus, with what joy it fills me to know that I possess Thee! But, my God, if You deal so with us on earth, what must it be like in Heaven!"

--St. Gemma Galgani

[Shin]

What happiness!

[Shin]

'Let us never tire of prayer.'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

[Shin]

'Every day you provide your bodies with good to keep them from failing. In the same way your good works should be the daily nourishment of your hearts. Your bodies are fed with food and your spirits with good works. You aren't to deny your soul, which is going to live forever, what you grant to your body, which is going to die.'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

[Shin]

'Long, as the stag panting for the waters, to have your will broken, and regard that day as lost on which you have not subjected your will to that of another.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'Admit that God deserves to be loved very much, yea, boundlessly, because He loved us first, He infinite and we nothing, loved us, miserable sinners, with a love so great and so free. This is why I said at the beginning that the measure of our love to God is to love immeasurably. For since our love is toward God, who is infinite and immeasurable, how can we bound or limit the love we owe Him? Besides, our love is not a gift but a debt. And since it is the Godhead who loves us, Himself boundless, eternal, supreme love, of whose greatness there is no end, yea, and His wisdom is infinite, whose peace passeth all understanding; since it is He who loves us, I say, can we think of repaying Him grudgingly? "I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I will trust." He is all that I need, all that I long for. My God and my help, I will love Thee for Thy great goodness; not so much as I might, surely, but as much as I can. I cannot love Thee as Thou deservest to be loved, for I cannot love Thee more than my own feebleness permits. I will love Thee more when Thou deemest me worthy to receive greater capacity for loving; yet never so perfectly as Thou hast deserved of me.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

[Shin]

' . . .  Our most ardent desire is the promotion and fortification of concord among Catholics, We constantly try to remove all those occasions of quarrels which dissipate the strength of men of good will and are advantageous only for the enemies of religion.'

Pope St. Pius X

[Therese]

"It is better that scandal arise than that the truth be concealed."

- Pope St. Gregory the Great



"It's a dumb dog that doesn't bark when the wolf is among the sheep!"

- Pope St. Gregory the Great, In Ez. Hom. 7

[Shin]

'There is nothing sweeter and milder, and at the same time stronger and more efficacious than the gentle unction of the burning charity of this lovable Heart, to convert the most hardened souls and to penetrate the most unfeeling hearts.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'Though I find myself in so wretched a condition that I feel as if I no longer possess faith, hope, or charity, nor even that natural light which other men enjoy, so that I seem to be like an animal, even then, were I asked of what I was thinking, I could truthfully say that in the depth of my soul I have God alone present with me.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Therese]

Beautiful!