“Make it a practice to judge persons and things
in the most favorable light at all times
and under all circumstances.”
“The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit; He will reign in you
if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace and you will honor in a
sovereign way the God of peace and love.”
“Let us allow God to act; He brings things
to completion when we least expect it.”
“Do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God
has chosen them for our salvation.”
You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips but with your heart.
In fact, on certain occasions, you should only speak to Him with your heart.
Do not be so given to the activity of Martha as to forget the silence of Mary.
May the Virgin who so well reconciled the one with the other
be your sweet model and inspiration.
Pray, hope and don’t worry. Worry is useless.
Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.
“It would be easier for the world to exist without the sun
than without the Holy Mass”
“Kneel down and render the tribute of your presence and devotion
to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Confide all your needs to him,
along with those of others.”
“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self;
there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection
except at the price of pain”
“The best means of guarding yourself against temptation are the following: watch your senses to save them from dangerous temptation, avoid vanity,do not let your heart become exalted, convince yourself of the evil of complacency, flee away from hate, Pray whenever possible.”
“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.”
Antiphon to Mary
O most splendid jewel
clear beauty of the sun
which was poured into you
a fountain leaping
from the Father’s heart
that is the peerless Word.
St. Hildegard of Bingen
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.