Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in[…]
Quotes
Let us not resist his first coming, so that we may not dread the second. What then should the Christian do? He ought to use the world, not become its slave…(for) he who is without anxiety waits without fear until his Lord comes (Saint Augustine, +430)
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God (Saint Gertrude the Great, +1302)
I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity. (Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, +1917)
O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)
You people of Vitebsk want to put me to death. You make ambushes for me everywhere, in the streets, on the bridges, on the highways, and in the marketplace. I am here among you as a shepherd, and you ought to know that I would be happy to give my life for you. I am[…]
Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. (Saint Martin of Tours, +397)
Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive. (John 20:38)
My fellow Christians, do we wish to celebrate joyfully the birth of this temple? Then let us not destroy the living temples of God in ourselves by works of evil. (Saint Caeserius of Arles, +542)
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice (G.K. Chesterton)