Do not look forward to the trials and crosses of this life and fear. Rather, look to them with full confidence that, as they arise, God, to whom you belong, will deliver you from them. He has guided and guarded you this far in life. Do you but hold fast to His hand,...
When you see the Lord immolated and lying upon the altar, and the priest bent over that sacrifice praying, and all the people empurpled by that precious blood, can you think that you are still among men and on earth? Or are you not lifted up to heaven?St. John...
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.- St. Teresa of Avila *Amazon Affiliate links help the ministry of Catholic-Link at no additional cost to you! Thank you!...
What the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, the Church.
The husband and wife should be similar to the hand and the eye. When the hand hurts, the eyes should be crying. And when the eyes cry, the hand should wipe away the tears.St. John Chrysostom
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.- G.K. Chesterton
Know that even when you are in the kitchen, our Lord moves amidst the pots and pans.- St. Teresa of Avila https://catholic-link.org/life-prayer-writings-st-teresa-of-avila-doctor-church/ https://catholic-link.org/images/let-nothing-disturb-st-teresa-avila/...
The House Of Christmas | G.K. Chesterton There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand...
I have found a Physician who dwells in heaven, but who distributes his medicine on earth. He alone can cure my wounds because He does not suffer from them; He alone can take all sorrow away from my heart and all fear from my soul, because He knows me in the depths of...
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.- St. Augustine
As we have seen, there is sometimes a big difference between what God is actually asking of us, and what we imagine He is asking. We won’t have the grace to do what God is not asking of us. But for what He is asking, He has promised us His grace: God grants what He...
It was due to His own infinite sanctity that God should suspend, in this instance, the law which His divine justice had passed upon all the children of Adam. The relations which Mary was to bear to the Divinity, could not be reconciled with her undergoing 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 striking feature of the angel's greeting is that he does not address Mary with the usual Hebrew salutation shalom - peace be with you - chaíre, which we might well translate with the word "Hail," as in the Church's Marian prayer, pieced together from the words of...
Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving others with God’s own love and concern. - Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.- St. Francis of Assisi
O King of Heaven! from starry throne descending, Thou takest refuge in that wretched cave; O God of bliss! I see Thee cold and trembling, What pain it cost Thee fallen man to save! Thou, of a thousand worlds the great Creator, Dost now the pain of cold and want...
The charity of God is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given to us (Rom. 5:5). He who has a share of daylight has that light from the sun; in the same way he who has charity has it from the Holy Spirit. - St. Thomas Aquinas
What is the meaning of the Coming of the Holy Ghost? What did it accomplish? How did He tell us of His Presence; reveal It to us? By the fact that all spoke in the tongues of every nation. There were a hundred and twenty people gathered in one room; ten times twelve....
One of the errors of Pelagianism was the assertion that prayer is not necessary for salvation. Pelagius, the impious author of that heresy, said that man will only be damned for neglecting to know the truths necessary to be learned. How astonishing! St. Augustine...
Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Only wonder can comprehend his incomprehensible power.
Seeds in a pomegranate cannot see objects outside its rind, because they are inside. Similarly human beings who are enclosed with all creation in the hand of God cannot see God . . . Friend, it is through him that you are speaking, it is he whom you breathe, and you...
Most people are enclosed in their mortal bodies like a snail in its shell, curled up in their obsessions after the manner of hedgehogs. They form their notion of God's blessedness taking themselves for a model....