It is impossible…
Just as one cannot build a ship unless one has some nails, so it is impossible to be saved without humility.
–Saint Synkletike (a Desert Mother) (d.350)
We must sow…
We must sow the seed, not hoard it.
–Saint Dominic (1170-1221)
In times of desolation…
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
–Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297)
Christ’s Eucharistic body…
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God.
–Saint Gertrude (1256-1302)
The church is…
The church is a collection of souls, brought together in one by God’s secret grace, though that grace comes to them through visible instruments, and unites them to a visible hierarchy. What is seen, is not the whole of the church, but the visible part of it.
–Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
To love the Church
To love the Church is not to criticize her, not to destroy her, not to try to change her essential structures, not to reduce her to humanism, horizontalism and to the simple service of a human liberation. To love the Church is to cooperate with the work of Redemption by the Cross and in this way obtain the grace of the Holy Spirit come to renew the face of this poor earth, conducting it to its consummation in the design of the Father’s immense love.
–Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida (1862-1937)
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