Virtues of the Month: 
   August's Virtues ~ Sanctifying Life

See, my children, we must reflect that we have a soul to save, and an eternity that awaits us. The world, its riches, pleasures, and honors will pass away; heaven and hell will never pass away. Let us take care, then. The saints did not all begin well; but they all ended well. We have begun badly; let us end well, and we shall go one day and meet them in heaven." – St. John Vianney

"Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing." – St. Therese of Lisieux

"When you awake in the middle of the night, transport yourself quickly in spirit before the Tabernacle, saying: 'Behold, my God, I come  to adore You, to praise, thank, and love You, and to keep You company with all the Angels'." – St. John Vianney
​Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke thy most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying. O Purest Mary! O Sweetest Mary! Let thy name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, O blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on thee; for, in all my temptations, in all my needs, I shall never cease to call on thee, ever repeating they sacred name, Mary, Mary. O what consolation, what sweetness, what confidence, what emotion fill my soul when I utter thy sacred name, or even only think of thee! I thank the Lord for having given thee, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering thy name. Let my love for thee prompt me ever to hail thee, Mother of Perpetual Help.
His Holiness, Pope Pius IX, by a rescript of the S. Congr. of Rites, May 17, 1866, granted to all the faithful, who, with at least contrite heart and devotion, shall say this prayer:
AN INDULGENCE OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day.