Quote of the Week Archive
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