Quiet Moment

I can as yet scarcely understand the sacred burden I bear, and, aware of my weakness, I tremble at the weight of my task. –St. Paulinus of Nola

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that…

Remember then how our fathers worked out their salvation; remember the sufferings through which the Church has grown, and the storms the ship of Peter has weathered because it has Christ on board. –St. Thomas Becket

Lord, shed upon our darkened souls the brilliant light of your wisdom so that we may be enlightened and serve you with renewed purity. –St. Ephraem of Niseis

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow. –St. Philip Neri

Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God! Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Lord, do not hold this sin against them. –St. Stephen

May he who did not shrink from taking a beginning even like ours, perfect in us his gifts; and may he also make us children of God, he who for our sakes wished to become a child of man. –St. Augustine

What was the purpose of the Incarnation but this — that the flesh which had sinned should be redeemed by itself? –St. Ambrose

The Incarnation is not an event, but an institution. What Jesus once took up he never laid down. –Fr. Vincent McNabb

O, Mary, did you not find a room for your Son? Here it is, I offer it to you in this heart of mine. It is cold and unworthy, truly: but are you not the Mother of God? The Almighty through grace? The Dispenser of all gifts? Do change this…