Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'The Father spoke one Word, which was His Son, and this Word He speaks always in eternal silence, and in silence must it be heard by the soul.'

St. John of the Cross

[Shin]

'Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.'

St. Francis de Sales

[Shin]

'Everything that happens has a small beginning, and grows the more it is nourished.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'If, on going to the garden to pluck some fruits, you were surprised by a heavy rain, what would you do? You would seek shelter under the shed, would you not? So when sorrow, bitterness, tribulation, rain down upon you, you must seek a refuge in the safe asylum of the will of God, and you shall not be troubled.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'By the remembrance of the saints, as by the touch of glowing stones of fire, he was himself enkindled and converted into a divine flame.'

St. Bonaventure, of St. Francis of Assisi

[Shin]

'The best of all prayers is that in which we ask that God's holy will be accomplished, both in ourselves and in others.'

St. Louis de Blois

[Shin]

'If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.'

St. Catherine of Genoa

[Therese]

"...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists."
—Pope St. Pius X, Apostolic Letter Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910

[Shin]

'He who fails to reflect before acting, walks with his eyes shut and advances with danger. He also falls very often, because the eye of reflection does not enable him to see whither his footsteps lead.'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

[Therese]

"The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else."
—St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 29

[Therese]

"The Son of Man, when He cometh, shall He find, think you, faith on earth?"
—Blessed Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 18:8 )

[Shin]

'The hostility of the perverse sounds like praise for our life because it shows that we have at least some rectitude if we are an annoyance to those who do not love God; no one can be pleasing to God and to God's enemies at the same time. He who seeks to please those who oppose God is no friend of God; and he who submits himself to the truth will fight against those who strive against truth.'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

[Shin]

'I have never worried about our temporal affairs, and I have seen by experience that God has always provided for us. When we were two, Providence provided enough for two; for four when we were four; and when our number increased the needs of all were supplied, thus verifying the divine promise: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matt. vi. 33.) "Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on." (Matt. vi. 25.)'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'Those who profess to be Christ's will be recognized by their actions. For what matters is not a momentary act of professing, but being persistently motivated by faith.'

St. Ignatius of Antioch

[Therese]

"Most people are taught by way of example and not by way of words."

--St. Benedict

[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)



We can not please God if we do not possess the true Faith and neither can we be saved without possessing the true Faith.  If we believe in religious liberty, ecumenism and collegiality, then we do not possess the true Faith and have given into Modernism, the synthesis of all heresies.  If we have given into Modernism like the Conciliar Church has, then we have given into a lie and will have to pay the consequences.  You can not please God without possessing the Faith--the true Faith.