Te Deum - The Perfect New Year's Eve Prayer for Catholics O God, we praise Thee and acknowledge Thee to be the Supreme Lord.Everlasting Father, all the earth worships Thee.All the Angels, the heavens and all angelic powers,All the Cherubim and Seraphim, continuously...
O Jesus, our most loving Saviour! Thou Who was sent down from Heaven to enlighten the world by Thy teaching and example, and Who didst will to pass the greater part of Thy holy life in Nazareth, subject to Mary and Joseph, and thereby didst hallow the household which...
I am truly your merciful Mother, yours and all the people who live united in this land and of all the other people of different ancestries, my lovers, who love me, those who seek me, those who trust in me. Here I will hear their weeping, their complaints and heal all...
Are we ready to receive Him? Before the birth of Jesus, his parents asked for a simple dwelling place, but there was none. If Mary and Joseph were looking for a home for Jesus, would they choose … your heart, and all it holds? Let us pray that we shall be able to...
Suffering has done God's work her soul, and I am filled with thanksgiving and gratitude. What mercy, what love the Master shows His little bride by sending her this illness; sometimes I say to myself that He acts as if He had no one but me to love. - St. Elizabeth of...
Sunrise is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never-ending nuisanceG.K. ChesterTon
Every Christian home should be a place of peace and serenity. In spite of the small frustrations of daily life, an atmosphere of profound and sincere affection should reign there together with a deep-rooted calm, which is the result of authentic faith that is put into...
Christ should reign first and foremost in our soul. But how would we reply if he asked us: “How do you go about letting me reign in you?” I would reply that I need lots of his grace. Only that way can my every heartbeat and breath, my least intense look, my most...
O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage, and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me. I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect...
"Each one of you has to be God’s microphone. Each one of you has to be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is someone who has been baptized…Where is your baptism? You are baptized in your professions, in the fields of workers, in the...
When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward – in a word, a man. And upon this rock, He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell...
A sad way of not praying the Rosary is to leave it for the end of the day. If you say it when going to bed, it will be done at best badly and with no meditation on the mysteries. It will be difficult then to avoid routine, which is what drowns true piety, the only...
Give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; Give me your time, and I will give you my eternity; Give me your weary body, and I will give you my Redemption; Give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; Give me your nothingness, and I will give you...
...in vain do I strive to meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary; I am unable to fix my attention. For a long time, I was sad because of this lack of devotion which surprised me, for I love the Blessed Virgin so much that it should be easy for me to say in her honor...
I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men [and women] who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account...
“Let us make the human being according to our image and according to our likeness’ [Gen. 1:26]. By our creation we have the first, and by our free choice we build the second. In our initial structure co-originates and exists our coming into being according to the...
Go to Him, He is the way, the truth, and the life. Go to Him, learn how He lived and what He thought. Go to Him, He will teach you the way to God. Go to Him if you are weary of life. Go to Him, He will lift your burdens. Go to Him if you want clarity and direction for...
We are at Jesus’ disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that’s all right, everything is all right. We must say, ‘I belong to you. You can do whatever you like.’ And...
The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.St. Edith Stein *Amazon Affiliate links help the ministry of Catholic-Link at no additional cost to you! Thank you!
A Prayer To Honor Mary On Her Birthday Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin; give me strength against thine enemies, and against the enemy of the whole human race. Give me strength humbly to pray to thee. Give me strength to praise thee in prayer with all...
If artists who make statues and paint portraits of kings are held in high esteem, will not God bless ten thousand times more those who reveal and beautify His royal image? For man is the image of God. When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, and to be...
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.- St. Edith Stein *Amazon Affiliate links help the ministry of Catholic-Link at no additional cost to you! Thank...
Most holy Immaculate Virgin and my Mother Mary, to thee who art the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the world, the advocate, the hope, the refuge of sinners. I have recourse today,-----I, who am the most miserable of all. I render thee my most humble homages, O Great...
I want to love you like a little child, I want to battle like a warrior bold.St. Therese of Lisieux
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight,and give Your Angels and Saints charge over those who sleep.Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Christ.Rest Your weary ones.Bless Your dying ones.Soothe Your suffering ones.Pity Your afflicted ones.Shield Your...