Any true religion would have to teach Divine mysteries. Man-made religions tend to always be understandable. When you have a religion that comes from heaven, it necessarily has mysteries that are beyond the power of human beings to understand...they have to be revealed by God. ~ Fr. William Jenkins, Trinity Sunday 2024
One Lord, one faith, one baptism (Eph. 4,5). Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas, 13th Cent.
The cross is the divine school of patience; the school of self-abnegation; the school of penance; the school of charity.
~ Archbp. Ullathorne, 19th Cent.
He that seeks not the cross of Christ seeks not the glory of Christ. ~ St. John of the Cross, 16th Cent.
Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.
~ St. Francis de Sales
"Let my conscience be ever upright and pure, my exterior modest, my conversation edifying, and my comportment regular." ~ Pope Clement XI
"The most degraded of men are frequently won over to better lives through admiration for the conduct of others." ~ Fr. J. de la Vaissiere, S.J., 1937
When a woman is feminine, she has the strength God gives to her. When she is de-feminized, she has only the strength she gives herself. - Cardinal Siri
We know that certain modes of dress which women are beginning to accept are harmful to society, for they are a cause of evil...those who spread this poison seem to ignore its evil effects...
- Pope Benedict XV, 1919
Let us then be ever ready, ever willing, to defy the world and its immodesty with our courageous and determined efforts to be modest in all things. ~ Fr. Paul Krug CSPV
These sins (against holy purity) have become so common and are so blatantly paraded that even we might be tempted to forget sometimes how much they offend Our Lord. ~ Fr. Matthew Wilder CSPV
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.
