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Pope Benedict XVI

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

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.

St Maximilian Kolbe

St Clare of Assisi

Love Him totally, who gave Himself totally for you

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.

Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others.

Saint Clare

St John Vianney

The Cure of Ars

If people would do for God what they do for the world,
what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

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.

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.

Every Consecrated Host is made to burn Itself up with love in a human heart.

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St John Vianney on Prayer

Consider, children, a Christian’s treasure is not on earth, it is in heaven.
Well then, our thoughts should turn to where our treasure is. Man has a noble task: that of prayer and love. To pray and to love, that is the happiness of man on earth.

Prayer is nothing else than union with God. When the heart is pure and united with God it is consoled and filled with sweetness; it is dazzled by a marvellous light.

Prayer is a foretaste of heaven, an overflowing of heaven. It never leaves us without sweetness; it is like honey, it descends into the soul and sweetens everything. In a prayer well made, troubles vanish like snow under the rays of the sun.