When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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“If we really understood the Mass, we would die of joy.”
If we really understood the Mass, we would die of joy.
“If We Knew The Value Of The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass!”
“If we knew the value of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, how much greater effort we would put forth in order to assist at it!”
“Whoever shows his wound to you, give him the medicine of penitence”
And to you [priests] also, disciples of our illustrious physician, it is fitting that you should not withhold healing from him who needs healing. Whoever shows his wound to you, give him the medicine of penitence; and whoever is ashamed to show his disease, you shall...
3 Simple Movements to “Let Go” when You are Upset
The Welcoming Prayer practice is a way of “letting” into the present moment in the ordinary routines of daily life. The Welcoming Prayer is used when your needs for security, affection, and control are frustrated or gratified and cause emotional reactions.
Pope Leo XIII Quotes From Encyclical On Capital And Labor – Rerum Novarum
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and...
He exists. He is risen. He is alive.
It is true that not even Christ is seen, but He exists; He is risen, He is alive, He is close to us, more truly than the most enamored husband is close to his wife. Here is the crucial point: to think of Christ not as a person of the past, but as the risen and living...
God’s Plan According To St. Edith Stein
Things were in God's plan which I had not planned at all. I am coming to the living faith and conviction that - from God's point of view - there is no chance and that the whole of my life, down to every detail, has been mapped out in God's divine providence and makes...
“Where you are most human, most yourself, weakest, there Jesus lives.”
Where you are most human, most yourself, weakest, there Jesus lives.
The Unique Mission Of Every Human Person In The Eyes Of God
God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between...
Once We Discover Christ, Only He Can Satiate Our Thirst For Beauty
From this point, nothing else seems lovely to me, but I have turned away from all things that were thought noble before. My judgment of what is noble no longer errs so as to deem anything lovely besides you: not human approval, not glory, not celebrity, not worldly...
How Rules Allow For Joy And Wonder
Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air...- G.K. Chesterton
On Catholic Humility | G.K. Chesterton Quote
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up the courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.- G.K. Chesterton *Amazon Affiliate links help the ministry of Catholic-Link at no additional cost to you! Thank you!
G.K. Chesterton On The Adventure Of The Christian Virtues
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes. And especially (in this age of egoistic idealism) there is about one...
On The Difficulty Of The Christian Life
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.- G.K. Chesterton
“The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder”
Women also who administer drugs to cause abortion, as well as those who take poisons to destroy unborn children, are murderesses. - Letters 188:8 (374 A.D).
Why Mortal Sins Require Confession according to St. Augustine
In three ways then are sins remitted in the Church; by baptism, by prayer, by the greater humility of penance. - St. Augustine
St. Ambrose’s Teaching on the Indissolubility of Marriage
You dismiss your wife as if by right and without being charged with wrongdoing; and you suppose it is proper for you to do so because no human law forbids it; but divine law forbids it. Anyone who obeys men ought to stand in awe of God. Hear the law of the Lord, which...
Christ Is The Sacrament | St. Ambrose
Perhaps you may be saying, “I see something else; how can you assure me that I am receiving the body of Christ?” It only remains for us to prove it. And how many are the examples we might use! . . . Christ is in that sacrament, because it is the body of Christ."-St....
St. Ambrose Invokes St. Peter’s Intercession: “May He Weep for Us”
May Peter, who wept so efficaciously for himself, weep for us and turn towards us Christ’s benign countenance.
St. Ambrose On Mary’s Virtues, Perpetual Virginity, And Immaculate Conception
Imitate Mary, holy mothers, who in her only dearly beloved Son set forth so great an example of maternal virtue; for neither have you sweeter children, nor did the Virgin seek the consolation of being able to bear another son. - St. Ambrose Letters...
True Soldiers of Christ Must be Prepared to Do Battle for the Truth
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
Early Church Author Explains Mary’s Perpetual Virginity
But some say, basing it on a tradition in the Gospel according to Peter, as it is called, or “The Book [Protoevangelium] of James,” that the brothers of Jesus were sons of Joseph by a former wife, whom he married before Mary. Now those who say so wish to preserve the...
Sinners Must Not Shrink from Declaring Their Sin to the Priest
In addition to these there is also a seventh [remission of sins], but it is hard and laborious: the remission of sins through penance, when the sinner washes his pillow in tears [Ps 6:7], when his tears are his nourishment day and night [Ps 41:4], and when he does...
Early Church on Abortion: Even if it is Legal, It is the Greatest Impiety!
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those things esteemed lawful among men. . . . Therefore let no one imagine that this is allowed, to...