Quote of the Week Archive
3/8/2010 12:00:00 AM
"Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God."
Thomas a Kempis
3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
"Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ."
Pope John Paul II
2/22/2010 12:00:00 AM
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings
St. Paul of the Cross
2/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
"Look at His adorable face.
Look at His glazed and sunken eyes.
Look at His wounds.
Look Jesus in the Face.
There, you will see how He loves us."
St. Therese of Lisieux
2/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history
Pope John Paul II
1/25/2010 12:00:00 AM
To love God is something greater than to know Him.
St. Thomas Aquinas
1/18/2010 12:00:00 AM
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
St. Therese of Lisieux
1/11/2010 12:00:00 AM
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
Pope St. Gregory the Great
1/4/2010 12:00:00 AM
The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
Unknow Author
12/28/2009 12:00:00 AM
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.
St. Thomas Aquinas
12/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Pope John XXIII
12/14/2009 12:00:00 AM
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
St. Basil the Great
12/7/2009 12:00:00 AM
Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope.
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
11/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.
Pope Benedict XVI
11/23/2009 12:00:00 AM
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven.
Pope St. Pius X
11/16/2009 12:00:00 AM
Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
St. Camillus de Lellis
11/9/2009 12:00:00 AM
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
St. Thomas Aquinas
11/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
St. Ambrose of Milan
11/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.
Pope Benedict XVI
10/29/2009 12:00:00 AM
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
St. John of the Cross
10/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.
St. Peter Claver
10/19/2009 12:00:00 AM
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
St. Francis of Assisi
10/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
St. Augustine
10/5/2009 12:00:00 AM
Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other.
St. Thomas More
9/28/2009 12:00:00 AM
Grace is nothing else but a certain beginning of glory within us.
St. Thomas Aquinas
9/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one. The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat.
St. John Damascus
9/14/2009 12:00:00 AM
Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.
St. Martin de Tours
9/7/2009 12:00:00 AM
We can only move forward if we turn our gaze to Christ!
Pope Benedict XVI
8/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
Let us give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his kindness endures forever.
8/23/2009 12:00:00 AM
Through Mary, the gate of heaven, you came to crown our hope with fulfillment: today she goes before us into your Kingdom.
8/16/2009 12:00:00 AM
O Light of the Church, Rose of patience, unite us to the blessed.
Prayer to Saint Dominic
8/9/2009 12:00:00 AM
When we see the throngs of the nations hasten to the Christian faith, we rejoice together with the Apostles.
Saint Maximus of Turin