Quiet Moment

There is no creature who can realize how much, how sweetly, and how tenderly our Maker loves us. –Bl. Julian of Norwich

“Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one.” If you see this in the pure simplicity of your mind, you will somehow be bathed in the brilliance of eternal light. –St. Bonaventure

Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity. –Bl. Théophane Vénard

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way. –St. Thomas Aquinas

is his mystical channel, his aqueduct, through which he causes his mercies to flow gently and abundantly. –St. Louis de Montfort

chose Twelve: Simon, whom he named Peter ... Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot. –Luke 6:13-15

The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. –St. Athanasius

We should indeed honor St. Joseph since the Son of God himself was graciously pleased to honor him by calling him father. –St. Alphonsus Liguori

The rosary is a teacher of life, a teacher full of gentleness and love, where people beneath the gaze of Mary, almost without noticing, discover they are being slowly educated in preparation for the second life, that which is authentic…

In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature, boundless Love? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature for by the fire of love you…