There is a net of love by which you can catch souls. — St. Teresa of Kolkata

Not only did St. Patrick work as a shepherd when he was a slave, but he later became an ordained bishop, a shepherd for the Lord. You can remember this on his feast day by making a simple shepherd's pie for dinner and embellishing it with…

The way to overcome the devil when he excites feelings of hatred for those who injure us is immediately to pray for their conversion. — St. John Vianney

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself? — Thomas á Kempis

This, then, is our desert; to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the cross. — Thomas Merton

Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are. — St. Francis de Sales

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could. — St. Gregory Nazianzen

Cook and share these recipes with your loved ones this Lent. The meatless dishes are from Catholic Relief Services' Operation Rice Bowl. For 33 years, this program has helped US Catholics become more aware of global poverty while…

God is like a mother who carries her child in her arms by the edge of a precipice. While she is seeking all the time to keep him from danger, he is doing his best to get into it. — St. John Vianney

As I grow older and experience more physical suffering and the deaths of loved ones, I feel that my faith is waning and not increasing. Sometimes I worry that there really is no afterlife and doubt God's existence amid the many trials I’ve…