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“The name of Jesus is the purest, and holiest, the noblest and most indulgent of names, the name of all blessings and of all virtues; ... “ – St Bernard of Clairvaux
"What a weakness it is to love Jesus Christ only when He caresses us, and to be cold immediately once He afflicts us. This is not true love. Those who love thus, love themselves too much to love God with all their heart."
--St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
“Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.” – St. Francis de Sales
'It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future." - Pope Pius XII
“The greatest sin of our modern generation is that it has lost all sense of sin.” - Pope Pius XII
“Many women . . .give in to the tyranny of fashion, be it even immodest, in such a way as to appear not even to suspect that it is unbecoming... They have lost the very concept of danger: they have lost the instinct of modesty.” — Pope Pius XII (October 6, 1940)
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.
