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"...our holy patron St. Joseph has the power to assist us in all cases, in every necessity, in every undertaking." ~ St. Thomas Aquinas
"There must be no weariness in combating whatever contributes to the lessening of the people's sense of decency and of honour." ~ Pope Pius XI, Vigilante Cura, 1936
"...the Lord your God is merciful, and will not turn away His face from you, if you return to Him." ~ 2 Par. xxx 9
“To put into practice the teachings of our Holy Faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.” ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori
“What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.”
~ St. Alphonsus Liguori
"What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love." --St John of the Cross
A soul enkindled with love is a gentle, meek, humble, and patient soul.
--St John of the Cross
"My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment."
--St. Therese of Lisieux
"The elect will always see God, love God, possess God and always will wish to see Him, love Him and possess Him still more. This beatitude is the end destined for all; God has given us time only in order to merit it, being and life only to possess it." --St. Ignatius of Loyola
"O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and my sanctuary." –St. Gertrude the Great
"I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him." –St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
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
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.
