Chapter 1: Early Childhood My dearest Mother, it is to you, to you who are in fact a mother twice over to me, that I
Meditation on the Holy Eucharist 45. It is the best means whereby to venerate the Passion of Christ and obtain a share in its fruits.
A Meditation on the Holy Eucharist 1. For your salvation, God the Father sends His beloved Son down from Heaven. 2. For your salvation, the
If you would be convinced that in all He allows and in all that happens to you God has no other end in view but
When St. Catherine perceived that the more charitable she was towards her neighbor the more she would be acceptable to the Lord, she prepared and
In the modern age it seems obvious that the only way to make it through the narrow gate[1] and arrive in heaven is to make
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye shall fall into diverse temptations.” -Epist. S. Jas., Cat., c. i, v. 2. If we are tempted,
The joy of a good conscience is always accompanied by that blessed hope of which the Apostle speaks when he tells us to rejoice in
There have been very few Saints who had all five sacred stigmata. The Spirit, as we read in St. John, “breatheth where He will” and
“I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke.” -Osee 11:4 I shall now speak of those means that may help us
“In me is all grace of the way, and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.” -Eccles. 24:25 In
The following is the beginning of a series by the author. In a friendship, having correct knowledge of one’s friend is necessary and foundational. For
Acting according to this pattern, one not only becomes holy but also enjoys perpetual serenity in this life. Alphonse the Great, King of Aragon, being
Nothing disturbs us so much as self-love and self-esteem. If our heart does not overflow with tender emotions, if our mind does not teem with
“Be still and know that I am God.” I seek you, my God, but not through any of the senses of my body or through
There is a movement afoot that claims that the Roman Catholic Church was long insensitive to the plight of black slaves or to the institution
“Mary was born a saint, and a great saint; for the grace with which God enriched her from the beginning was great, and the fidelity
Anger is an inordinate desire of revenge. Against this vice the Apostle strongly speaks: “Let all bitterness and anger, and indignation and clamor, and blasphemy
The anemic style so frequently noted in recent translations and compositions of prayer, particularly over the past sixty or so years, is not quite so
“Whatsoever ye do, do it from the heart as to the Lord.” -Colossians 3:23 Follow justly that which is just (Deut. 16:20), says Our Lord
Our sanctification is God’s aim in all His dealings with us. What would He not do for His own honor and our good if we
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