10/10/2011 12:00:00 AM
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.
Saint John Eudes
10/3/2011 12:00:00 AM
You cannot please both God and the world at the same time. They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.
Saint John Vianney
9/26/2011 12:00:00 AM
He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori
9/19/2011 12:00:00 AM
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.
Saint Leo the Great
9/12/2011 12:00:00 AM
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
Saint Bede the Venerable
9/5/2011 12:00:00 AM
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
8/29/2011 12:00:00 AM
No one heals himself by wounding another.
Saint Ambrose
8/21/2011 12:00:00 AM
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
Saint Teresa of Avila
8/15/2011 12:00:00 AM
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
8/8/2011 12:00:00 AM
We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.
Saint Vincent de Paul
8/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.
Saint Vincent de Paul
7/25/2011 12:00:00 AM
Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.
Saint Jeanne de Chantal
7/18/2011 12:00:00 AM
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.
Saint Peter Claver
7/11/2011 12:00:00 AM
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone.
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
7/4/2011 12:00:00 AM
The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
6/27/2011 12:00:00 AM
If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.
- Saint Charles Borromeo
6/20/2011 12:00:00 AM
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.
Saint Clare of Assisi
6/13/2011 12:00:00 AM
Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.
Saint Francis of Assisi
6/6/2011 12:00:00 AM
The most deadly poison of our times is indifference.
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
5/30/2011 12:00:00 AM
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
Saint Anthony of Padua
5/23/2011 12:00:00 AM
It is not the actual physical exertion that counts towards a one's progress, nor the nature of the task, but by the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken.
Saint Francis Xavier
5/16/2011 12:00:00 AM
Charity is the sweet and holy bond, which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
Saint Catherine of Siena
5/9/2011 12:00:00 AM
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
Saint Francis de Sales
5/2/2011 12:00:00 AM
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
Saint Francis de Sales
4/25/2011 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.
Saint Gregory the Great
4/18/2011 12:00:00 AM
I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.
Saint Dominic Savio
4/11/2011 12:00:00 AM
Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
Saint Gerard Majella
4/5/2011 12:00:00 AM
You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
Saint Therese of Lisieux
3/2/2011 12:00:00 AM
Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.
St. Martin de Tours
2/21/2011 12:00:00 AM
O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: "He saved others, himself he cannot save!
St. Norbert
2/14/2011 12:00:00 AM
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.
St. Clare of Assisi
2/8/2011 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
1/31/2011 12:00:00 AM
For me prayer is a surge of the heart, it is a simple look towards Heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
Saint Therese of Lisieux
1/24/2011 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
1/16/2011 12:00:00 AM
It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
1/9/2011 12:00:00 AM
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
St Aelred of Rievaulx
1/4/2011 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
12/20/2010 12:00:00 AM
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire. Let the truth be your delight...proclaim it...but with a certain congeniality.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
12/13/2010 12:00:00 AM
God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.
- Pope Benedict XVI
12/6/2010 12:00:00 AM
Leave sadness to those in the world. We who work for God should be lighthearted.
- St. Leonard of Port Maurice
11/29/2010 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
11/22/2010 12:00:00 AM
Love God, serve God: everything is in that.
-- St. Clare of Assisi
11/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity
St. John of the Cross
11/8/2010 12:00:00 AM
"Love of God and love of neighbor are inseparable, they form a single commandment."
Pope Benedict XVI
11/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Let us help and commemorate them. If Job's sons were purified by their father's sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help those who have died and to offer our prayers for them.
Saint John Chrysostom
10/25/2010 12:00:00 AM
No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.
Bl. Giles of Assisi
10/18/2010 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
10/11/2010 12:00:00 AM
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.
St. James
10/4/2010 12:00:00 AM
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.
St. Clare of Assisi
9/27/2010 12:00:00 AM
God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.
Blessed Robert Southwell
9/20/2010 12:00:00 AM
Love God, serve God: everything is in that.
St. Clare of Assisi
9/13/2010 12:00:00 AM
You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy - the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud.
St. Vincent de Paul
9/6/2010 12:00:00 AM
Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him.
St. Dominic Savio
8/30/2010 12:00:00 AM
To love God is something greater than to know Him.
St. Thomas Aquinas
8/23/2010 12:00:00 AM
Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.
Pope St. Clement I
8/16/2010 12:00:00 AM
It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
8/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
"Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor."
St Aelred of Rievaulx
8/2/2010 12:00:00 AM
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
St. John of the Cross
7/26/2010 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
7/19/2010 12:00:00 AM
You! God of my heart, and my Portion, Christ Jesus, may my heart faint away in spirit, and may You be my Life within me!
St. Augustine of Hippo
7/12/2010 12:00:00 AM
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
St. Philip Neri
7/5/2010 12:00:00 AM
Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
St. Angela Merici
6/28/2010 12:00:00 AM
Those whose hearts are pure are the temples of the Holy Spirit.
St. Lucy
6/21/2010 12:00:00 AM
One must see God in everyone.
St. Catherine Laboure
6/14/2010 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
6/7/2010 12:00:00 AM
I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
5/31/2010 12:00:00 AM
God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform.
St. John of the Cross
5/24/2010 12:00:00 AM
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received ... but only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
St. Francis of Assisi
5/17/2010 12:00:00 AM
And he said to them, "Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Luke 24: 46-47
5/10/2010 12:00:00 AM
"And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here."
St. Augustine
5/3/2010 12:00:00 AM
"The name of Jesus is the one lever that lifts the world."
Unknown
4/26/2010 12:00:00 AM
"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."
Basil C. Hume
4/21/2010 12:00:00 AM
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.
Pope St. Gregory the Great
4/19/2010 12:00:00 AM
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
1 John 3:16 NIV
4/12/2010 12:00:00 AM
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
Pope John Paul II
4/5/2010 12:00:00 AM
"'Christ the Lord is risen to-day,' Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply."
Charles Wesley
3/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
"Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us."
St. John Eudes
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