“And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God, love also his brother.” (1 John iv. 21.) The same precept, then, which

THE SENTENCE OF THE JUST The form and procedure of this judgment the pastor will easily learn from the prophecies of Daniel (Dan. 7:9; Matt.

We must make no compromise with the world. We must make no concessions either to please it or to seek its esteem. As St. Francis

The voice of Jesus—My Child, he that loves to serve the world, knows not the world. The world is a true tyrant: and wretched slaves

Even the Devil came to Ars. Indeed, he had a reason. By the mouth of a possessed woman, he exclaimed one day to the Curé,

According to tradition, a Eucharistic miracle occurred in the small Umbrian town of Bolsena, Italy, near Rome, in 1263. A German priest known as Peter

This, my sisters, is what I would have us strive for—to offer our petitions and to practice prayer, not for our own enjoyment but to

The most common argument I’ve heard over the years for why we should allow Christian “pop” music in Church is the consequentialist or utilitarian argument:

St. Teresa was accustomed to offer herself to God fifty times in the day. St. Martha used to pray a hundred times in the day,

In teaching others, as I have said, I have learned a lot. I saw from the very beginning that everyone has to go through much

In Dante’s Inferno, the devil informs Jesus that a certain soul is his, a soul that is destined for eternal damnation. Jesus responds by denying

The holy Fathers have taught us many means whereby to subdue the passions and to restrain sinful pleasure. The pastor, therefore, should make it his study to explain these accurately to the faithful, and should use the utmost diligence in their exposition.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.” —St. Francis de Sales It was in this manner that the Apostle St. Paul acted; though, after his conversion, he had become a vessel of election, filled with the spirit of Jesus Christ, yet, to persevere and advance in the heavenly way.

Oh, how great, how inexhaustible are the hidden treasures of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! In this most loving Heart, the Saints of every age reposed in peace. In the Sacred Heart they found consolation, nay, joy, in trials and sufferings; courage to fight the battles of the Church; and new motives every day to live,

Let us endeavor to do our best: beware of the poisonous reptiles— that is to say, the bad thoughts and aridities which are often permitted by God to assail and torment us so that we cannot repel them. Indeed, perchance we feel their sting! He allows this to teach us to be more on our guard in the future

The voice of Jesus—I was dead, My Child, and behold I am living forevermore. I had come forth from the Father, and had come into the world: at last I was leaving the world to return to the Father. However, the love of My Heart did not allow nor suffer that I should leave them orphans,

The first purification to be made is that of sin, and the means—the holy Sacrament of Penance. Seek the best confessor that you can, take some one of the books prepared for the aid of conscience, read it carefully, and observe minutely wherein you have sinned from the earliest period up to the present time,

Sacred Scripture speaks of pride as one of the two primary roots of sin. Various Catholic theologians and writers have seen it as one of the greatest sins, for it gives birth to many other evil impulses. St. Thomas Aquinas and Pope St. Gregory the Great called pride “the queen of all vices.”

The voice of Jesus—My Child, one thing above all others is necessary, to save thy soul. For if she is lost, all is lost; but if she is saved, all else is saved. Yet, thou shalt not attain thy eternal salvation, if thou do not imitate My Heart. For those whom God did foreknow,