From the Magazine

Dear Father: I grew up in a family where my parents never talked about sex or other sensitive topics. I was left to figure things out on my own and learned about sex from kids at school. It was not the best moral education! I am now married…

Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time We can change, slowly and steadily, if we set our will to it. — Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson

Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Out of God’s gifts, then, we make gifts to God, and from us he receives what he first gave us. — St. Augustine

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Among all things called one, the unity of the Divine Trinity holds the first place. — St. Bernard

Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time Blessed Virgin Mary Have great confidence in the Holy Virgin; when we abandon ourselves to her it is impossible to go astray. — St. Just de Bretenières

Friday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time Laugh and grow strong. — St. Ignatius of Loyola

Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be He who made them! The wisdom of the worker is apparent in His handiwork. — St. Anthony of…

Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time Whatever you do, think not of yourself, but of God. — St. Vincent Ferrer

Memorial of St. Barnabas, Apostle It does not matter whether a thing is difficult or easy, convenient or inconvenient. If it is God’s will, it must be done. That settles it! — Bl. Pauline von Mallinckrodt

Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church Every soul that loves is a treasure house of all that she has ever loved. — Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson