Category Archives: Pope Benedict XVI
We are not alone
We are made for Eternity . VID
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
St Helena and the Holy Cross
It is related by many historical accounts that Saint Helena mother of Roman emperor Constantine the Great, discovered the True Cross at the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem after she travelled to the Holy Land in the year 326 AD. While Saint Helena was in Jerusalem she found the hiding place of three crosses that were believed used at the crucifixion of Jesus and the thieves Dismas and Gestas.
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“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
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
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 Most Holy Name of Mary
Happy Birthday Mary
Mother Teresa
Faithful
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.
Mother Teresa
St Gregory the Great
True Riches
The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue.
Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind’s eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making.
St Gregory the Great
the Land of Eternal Peace
Eternal Life
“O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall be” – St. Jean Vianney:
“Our Lord does not come down from heaven every day to lie in a golden ciborium. He comes to find another heaven which is infinitely dearer to him—the heaven of our souls, created in his image, the living temples of the adorable Trinity.” – St. Therese of Lisieux
“There, good will shall be so ordered in us that we shall have no other desire than to remain there eternally.” – St. Augustine
His Love for you
St Maximilian Kolbe
Humble Prayer
No one in the world can change Truth.
What we can do and and should do is to seek truth
and to serve it when we have found it
The Immaculate will conquer, through us, the whole world and every single soul.
But grace, for ourselves and for others, is obtained by humble prayer, by mortification, and by fidelity in the accomplishment of our own ordinary duties, including the simplest ones.
For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more.