Let us never forget that, for Christ’s disciples, poverty is above all a call to follow Jesus in his own poverty. It means walking behind him and beside him, a journey that leads to the beatitude of the Kingdom of heaven...
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Too Bitter To Look Upon Lepers? | St. Francis of Assisi
When I was in my sins, it seemed a thing too bitter to look on lepers, and the Lord himself led me among them and I showed them mercy. And when I left them, what had seemed bitter to me was changed into sweetness of mind and body. - St. Francis of Assisi More...
Prayer Will Make Your Heart Capable Of Loving God
My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer, we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows...
Yes to the Dignity and Beauty of Marriage, No to “Gender” Philosophies
The Church reaffirms her great “yes” to the dignity and beauty of marriage as an expression of the faithful and generous bond between man and woman, and her no to “gender” philosophies, because the reciprocity between male and female is an expression of the beauty of...
When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. That objection, which men of this school used to make to the act of...
The Value Of Public Prayer According To St. John Vianney
Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that....
What We Can Learn About Beauty From The Virgin Mary
Beauty of body attracts the eyes; beauty of soul attracts God. Man sees the face; God sees the soul. Mary's beautiful purity must have been such that it attracted less the eyes than the souls of men. No one would have loved her mind or soul because of the beauty of...
Unaffirmed People Are Like Prisoners Waiting For Someone To Free Them
Unaffirmed individuals, on the contrary, can be said to have been born only once; their second or psychological birth never took place (or, since it is a protracted process, was never completed). They were not made to know and feel their own goodness, worth and...
Inner Beauty Of Grace Wins The Soul
Beauty without virtue is like a fair flower that has an offensive odor. But true beauty bathes in that light without which nothing is beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God, like the rain. He allows the rain to fall upon the just and the wicked, and He gives beauty not...
St. Louis De Montfort Shares The Reason Why We Make So Many Mistakes
Often, actually, very often, God allows his greatest servants, those who are far advanced in grace, to make the most humiliating mistakes. This humbles them in their own eyes and in the eyes of their fellow men.
Holiness Is Like Salt | Bishop Fulton Sheen
“Holiness is like salt; its usefulness to others must begin with self. As only the wise man can impart wisdom to others, so only the saintly can communicate sanctity. A man can bring forth to others only those treasures which he already has in his own heart.”- Bishop...
Don’t Change The Truth Christ Gave! | Bishop Fulton Sheen
“Christ said, not a single iota of the truth He gave was to be changed, then by what right do we sit in judgment on Divinity and say: This much of Your truth we will accept, because it pleases us, and this much we will reject? We are not the creators of divine truth;...
Do You Say The Rosary Every Day? Saint Louis de Montfort Wants You To!
Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood.- St. Louis de Montfort Don't Know How To Pray The Rosary? Check out our visual guide to praying the rosary!...
“If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I would reply: Create silence!”
If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I would reply: Create silence! The Word of God cannot be heard in the noisy world of today. And even if it were blazoned forth with all the panoply of noise so that it could be heard in the midst of all the other noise,...
The Secret To Receiving A Crown Of Glory By St. Louis De Montfort
If you say the Rosary faithfully until death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins you shall receive a never-fading crown of glory. Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to...
The Lord Waits for Us To Respond Day By Day. Every Day is a Chance for Life
The Lord waits for us to respond day by day to his holy counsels by our actions. In fact the days of this life are given us as a respite to correct our errors, as the Apostle Paul says: 'Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?' (Romans...
Lovers no longer belong to themselves but to those whom they love.
In God, the 'eros desire' is outgoing, ecstatic. Because of it lovers no longer belong to themselves but to those whom they love. God also goes out of himself . .. when he captivates all creatures by the spell of his love and his desire . . . In a word, we might say...
In Spiritual Birth, We are Our Own Parents: It Depends on Our Decision
Here [in the spiritual realm] birth is not the result of intervention from outside, as happens with bodily creatures who reproduce in an external way. Spiritual birth is the result of free choice and we are thus, in a sense, our own parents, creating ourselves as we...
“A life without eternity is unworthy of the name of life.”
A life without eternity is unworthy of the name of life. Only eternal life is true.
“Communion with God is life, and separation from God is death”
For communion with God is life, and separation from God is death.
A Time is Coming When People Will Go Mad and Common Sense Will Fade
A time is coming when people will go mad, and when they meet someone who is not mad, they will turn to him and say, “you are out of your mind,” just because he is not like them.
We are Here for Only an Instant. Everything Slips Away!
After so many sufferings, diseases, troubles and pains, let us return humbly to that One Being. Let us enter into that city whose inhabitants share in Being itself.
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Discovering One’s Vocation: It’s not only knowing what God Wants, but doing it!
The fundamental objective of the formation of the lay faithful is an ever-clearer discovery of one’s vocation and the ever-greater willingness to live it so as to fulfill one’s mission.
The Vocation of the Artist: Creative Intuition that Deepens in Christ’s Incarnation
”With this Letter, I turn to you, the artists of the world, to assure you of my esteem and to help consolidate a more constructive partnership between art and the Church. Mine is an invitation to rediscover the depth of the spiritual and religious dimension which has...