Example of the saints…
The example of the saints is proposed to every one, so that the great actions shown us may encourage us to undertake smaller things.
–Blessed Louis de Granada (1505-1588)
Ask the holy saints…
If Saint Paul exhorts us to pray for one another, and we gladly think it right to ask every poor man to pray for us, should we think it evil to ask the holy Saints in Heaven to do the same?
–Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)
Saints whom the Savior loves…
Those in the Catholic Church, whom some rebuke for praying to Saints and going on pilgrimages, do not seek any Saint as their savior. Instead, they Seek saints as those whom their Savior loves, and whose intercession and prayer for the seeker He will be content to hear. For His Own sake, He would have those He loves honored. And when they are thus honored for His sake, then the honor that is given them for His sake overflows especially to Himself.
–Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)
The love of God…
The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
The little thing…
In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.
–Saint Dorotheus of Gaza (Sixth Century)
15 Marks of the Catholic Church…
The 15 Marks of the Catholic Church
(1) The Church’s Name, Catholic, universal, and world wide, and not confined to any particular nation or people.
(2) Antiquity, in tracing her ancestry directly to Jesus Christ.
(3) Constant Duration, in lasting substantially unchanged for so many centuries.
(4) Extensiveness, in the number of her loyal members.
(5) Episcopal Succession, of her Bishops from the first Apostles at the Last Supper to the present hierarchy.
(6) Doctrinal Agreement, of her doctrine with the teaching of the ancient Church.
(7) Union, of her members among themselves, and with their visible head, the Roman Pontiff.
(8) Holiness, of doctrine in reflecting the sanctity of GOD.
(9) Efficacy, of doctrine in its power to sanctify believers, and inspire them to great moral achievement.
(10) Holiness of Life, of the Church’s representative writers and defenders.
(11) The glory of Miracles, worked in the Church and under the Church’s auspices.
(12) The gift of Prophecy found among the Church’s saints and spokesmen.
(13) The Opposition that the Church arouses among those who attack her on the very grounds that Christ was opposed by His enemies.
(14) The Unhappy End, of those who fight against her.
(15) The Temporal Peace and Earthly Happiness of those who live by the Church’s teaching and defend her interests.
— Saint Robert Bellermine (1542-1621)
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