
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

From Prayer for Missionaries: How is it, then, great God, that although it is so glorious, so satisfying and so profitable to serve you, hardly…

It is indeed time to fulfil your promise. Your divine commandments are broken, your Gospel is thrown aside, torrents of iniquity flood the whole earth…

For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the…

After the fever of life – after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding – after all the…

If those who are admitted as members are not commanded to abjure by any form of words the Catholic doctrines, this omission, so far…

On the institution of the Militia Immaculata: I remember when, as a boy, I bought myself a figurine of the Immaculata for five kopecks. I…

From Catechetical Lectures, XVIII (NPNF-II, Vol. VII): But since the word Ecclesia is applied to different things (as also it is written of the multitude in the theater…

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.

Quote from St. Anthony of the Desert: The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we…