Quote for the Day

[Therese]

I learned from our Lady's instruction found in the Mystical City of God that we must detach our hearts from all creatures and not even look at them unless either charity or obedience calls for it.  I do find God in my prayer, meditations and devotions, but still I need further detachment from creatures.

[Shin]

'. . . if we want to cast carnal desires from our hearts, we should at once plant spiritual pleasures in their place, so that our mind, always bound to them, might have the wherewithal to abide in them constantly and might spurn the allurements of present and temporal joys.'

St. John Cassian

[Shin]

'When in a pure state, the intellect, on receiving the conceptual images of things, is moved to contemplate these things spiritually. But when it is sullied through indolence, while its conceptual images may in general be free from passion, those concerned with people produce in it thoughts that are shameful or wicked.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

[Therese]

For one Bishop of your opinion, I have a hundred Saints of mine, for one parliament of yours - and God alone knows what kind - I have all the General Councils for a thousand years.

- St. Thomas More

[Therese]

In condemning us, you condemn all your ancestors -- all the ancient priests, bishops and kings -- all that was once the glory of England, the island of saints, and the most devoted child of the See of Peter.

- St. Edmund Campion, English martyr

[Shin]

These past few quotes are reminding me of the thread in the past about thinking virtuously.

Also the readings from Ven. Mary of Agreda.

If we think like saints, if we think with Christ, what harm can come to us?

[Therese]

These past few quotes are reminding me of the thread in the past about thinking virtuously.

Also the readings from Ven. Mary of Agreda.

If we think like saints, if we think with Christ, what harm can come to us?

True, Shin!  It appears that every sin begins with a bad thought, for if our every thought were charitable we wouldn't be likely to commit a deliberate fault in word or in action.  How very important are our thoughts!  If we think like Christ, we can more easily speak and act like Him and, like you say, what harm can come to us?  Today I will focus my attention on thinking like Christ, especially when I pray to Mary.  If we pray to Mary in Jesus, as though it were He who were speaking to her through us, how pleased we will make her and how beautiful our prayers will be to her!

[CyrilSebastian]

              In The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Chapter 42 Verse 4 states:   
               until he establishes justice on the earth;     
                 the coastlands will wait for his teaching

[Shin]

Non erit tristis, neque turbulentus, donec ponat in terra judicium; et legem ejus insulae exspectabunt.

[Shin]

'You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.'

John 8:44

[Shin]

'These are those who would not think of failing to hear Holy Mass every day, and, at the same time, will not deprive themselves of the satisfaction it affords them to attend the theatres, although the Church has always regarded these as pernicious, considering the ordinary sort of entertainment therein presented.

Again there are those who sometimes read books of piety, and afterwards pass the night in reading novels filled with the venom of bitterness of falsehood and immorality.

This caused Gerson, one of the most famous lights of the University of Paris, to say, of a novel writer, that if he knew him to have died without doing penance for his sin, he (Gerson) would think no more of praying to God for that man's soul, than he would think of praying for Judas.'

St. Jean Eudes

[Therese]

"Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church."

--Pope Pius IX

[Therese]

"Who has lost and who has won in the struggle -- the one who keeps the premises [buildings] or the one who keeps the Faith? The Faith obviously. That therefore the ordinances which have been preserved in the churches from old time until now may not be lost in our days,... rouse yourselves, brethren,... seeing them now seized upon by aliens."

--Saint Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca. 379) (in 371)

[Shin]

'O how pleasing in the sight of God, is a Christian suffering with patience.'

St. Felix, martyr

[Therese]

In our time more than ever before, the greatest asset of those disposed toward evil is the cowardice and weakness of good men, and all the vigor of Satan's reign is due to the easygoing weakness of Catholics. Oh! if I might ask the Divine Redeemer, as the Prophet Zachary did in spirit (Zach. 13:6): "What are those wounds in the midst of Thy hands?" The answer would not be doubtful: "With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved me" (Zach. 13:6). I was wounded by my friends, who did nothing to defend me, and who, on every occasion, made themselves the accomplices of my adversaries. And this reproach can be leveled at the weak and timid Catholic of all countries.

--Pope Saint Pius X
   on the occasion of the beatification of St. Joan of Arc

[CyrilSebastian]

The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom;     
at the cost of all you have, get understanding.     
   
The Book of Proverbs Chapter 4 Verse 7