Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine…At least i have always found it so, Benedicamus Domino. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)
Quotes
I feel so happy to be able to help the children who beg me for protection. But so many do not ever come to me. (Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal)
He must increase, and I must decrease. (Saint John the Baptist, and every Christian)
Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! Lo, you were within, but I outside, seeking there for you, and upon the shapely things you have made I rushed headlong – I, misshapen. You were with me, but I was not with you. They held me back[…]
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. (G.K. Chesterton)
How then account for the fact that these men, who in Christ’s lifetime did not stand up to the attacks by the Jews, set forth to do battle with the whole world once Christ was dead – if, as you claim, Christ did not rise and speak to them and rouse their courage?…It is evident,[…]
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious…No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men. (Saint Rose of[…]
Has anyone ever come away from her troubled or saddened or ignorant of the heavenly mysteries? Who has not returned to everyday life gladdened and joyful because his request had been granted by the Mother of God? (Saint Amadeus of Lausanne, Cistercian, +1159)
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist. (Pope Saint Pius X,[…]
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love. (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Founder of the Cistercians, +1153)