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Saintly Quotes on Virtue

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Compiled by TAN, Cultivating Virtue is a collection of wisdom from the saints themselves, offering spiritual guidance for each month of the year. Highlighted below

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The Power of a Child’s Prayers

Fr. Michael Mueller

Once the Emperor Henry besieged a certain city for a considerable time. The inhabitants were unwilling to surrender; so he notified them that he would

St. Gertrude Praises the White Lily

Raphael Brown

AFTER ST. MECHTILDE’S holy death, Jesus made this revelation to another nun: “I have done great things in Mechtilde; but I will accomplish still greater

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Loving Christ Without Consolation

St. Catherine of Siena

“Some there are who have become faithful servants, serving Me with fidelity without servile fear of punishment, but rather with love. This very love, however,

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The Rosary: Relief for the Poor Souls of Purgatory

Father Francis Xavier Schouppe

We know that the Holy Rosary holds the first place among all the prayers which the Church recommends to the faithful. This excellent prayer, the

True Devotion to Our Lady

St. Louis de Montfort

Today, more than ever, we must take pains in choosing true devotion to our Blessed Lady, because, more than ever before, there are false devotions

God’s Care For The Temporal Needs Of The Just

Venerable Louis of Granada

The privileges of virtue which we considered in the preceding chapters are the spiritual blessings accorded to the just in this life, independently of the eternal reward of Heaven. As, however, there may be some who, like the Jews of old, cling to the things of the flesh rather than to those of the spirit, we shall devote this chapter to the temporal blessings which the virtuous enjoy.

The Battle For Our Eternal Destiny

Dr. Paul Thigpen

Like it or not, you are at war. No matter who you are — whether or not you know it — you have a mortal enemy

Transforming Despair Into Humility

Fr. Frederick Faber

If we are in earnest about our souls, with a quiet fidelity to those duties, practices and devotions, which obedience sanctions to us, our love

Christ Thirsts for Man’s Charity

Fr. Ignatius of the Side of Jesus, Passionist

The last moments of our dying Redeemer are at hand. His throat being parched, and His whole Body consumed with inward fever owing to the

Three Sources of Spiritual Aridity from St. Teresa of Avila

Fr. Peter Rohrbach

Aridity, which may be defined as the withdrawal of consolation and enthusiasm in loving Christ, is best combatted by attacking its causes. There are three

The Incomplete Repentance of Judas Iscariot

Fr. James Groenings

There is no doubt that Judas was sorry for his treason. Holy Writ tells us that he repented himself. However, let us examine both the

The Forgotten Souls of Purgatory

TAN Books Editors

“As you measure to others,” says our Blessed Saviour, “it shall be measured to you again.” Now, what would you wish to be done for

Blessed Helen Duglioli

Joan Carroll Cruz

Blessed Helen was a member of the Valentini family of Udine, Italy, and was given in marriage at the age of fifteen to a knight

All Souls’ Day

Dr. Paul Thigpen

St. Catherine of Genoa had a vision of the souls in purgatory, which she carefully described and explained in a treatise on the subject. She

A Look At Sainthood

Fr. Alban Butler

The Church pays, day by day, a special veneration to some one of the holy men and women who have helped to establish it by

The Saintly Shepherdess: St. Germain Cousin

Joan Carroll Cruz

In the apostolic brief that placed the pious shepherdess St. Germaine Cousin among the Blessed, she is described as “a simple maiden, humble, and of

The Company of Hell

Fr. Martin von Cochem

There are many bold sinners who, when they are punished for their crimes and threatened with hell fire, wont audaciously to answer: “Wherever I go,

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You Have Made Us For Yourself

St. Augustine of Hippo

You are great, O Lord, and to be praised indeed: great is your power, and your wisdom is beyond reckoning. And man, a mere part of your creation, desires to praise you, man, who bears his mortality about with him, and the testimony of his sin, and testimony that you resist the proud; and still this man, this part of your creation, desires to praise you. You rouse him up to take delight in praising you for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

The Ave Maria

Rev. Francis Spirago

It has always been customary among Christians to imitate the example of the archangel Gabriel, and salute our blessed Lady in his words. The devotion

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