“God is the brightest of lights which can never be extinguished, and the choirs of angels radiate light from the divinity. Angels are pure praise without any trace of a bodily deed.”
-St. Hildegard of Bingen
We are celebrating the feast of the cross which drove away darkness and brought in the light. As we keep this feast, we are lifted up with the crucified Christ, leaving behind us earth and sin so that we may gain the things above. So great and outstanding a possession is the cross that he who wins it has won a treasure.
St Andrew of Crete
“When we are overcome by sadness, fear, or suffering; when the pains of loss overwhelm us; when evil seems to have taken power; let us look to the cross and be filled with peace, knowing that Christ has walked this road and walks it now with us and with all our brothers and sisters.”
St Teresa of Avila
“O souls! seek a refuge, like pure doves, in the shadow of the crucifix. There mourn the Passion of your divine Spouse, and drawing from your hearts flames of love and rivers of tears, make of them a precious balm with which to anoint the wounds of your Saviour.”
St Paul of the Cross
There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us. And on the far side of every cross we find the newness of life in the Holy Spirit, that new life which will reach its fulfillment in the resurrection. This is our faith. This is our witness before the world.
St John Paul II
“The name of Mary is free from all vice
and resplendent with every virtue”
Saint Bonaventure
“Dei matris nomen sit mihi ultimus linguae loquentis motus,”
“May the name of the Mother of God be for me the last movement of my tongue!”
Blessed Bartolomo
“Let us pray, then, my devout reader, let us pray God to grant us
this grace, that the last word we pronounce at death may be the name of Mary.”
Saint Alphonsus Liguori
“May Jesus Christ, thy son, bestow the gifts of his grace on thy servants, w
ho invoke the sweet name of Mary.”
Saint Bernard
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
I alone cannot change the world
but I can cast a stone across the waters
to create many ripples.