Christus resurrexit! Dominus, surrexit, vere, alleluia!
Quotes
Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world[…]
The power of the priest, is the power of the divine person; for the transubstantiation of the bread requires as much power as the creation of the world (Saint Bernardine of Siena, +1444)
What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness! (Saint Bernadette Soubirous, +1879)
and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself (John 12:32)
(P)reach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening[…]
He prays for us as our priest, he prays in us as our head, he is the object of our prayers as our God. Let us then recognise both our voice in his, and his voice in ours. (Saint Augustine, +430)
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water. (Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, +1719)
Once humility is acquired, charity will come to life; a burning flame devouring the corruption of vice and filling the heart so full that there is no place for vanity. (Saint Vincent Ferrer, +1419)
Let us pray for this gift of the Holy Spirit which is called the “gift of fortitude”. When man lacks the strength to “transcend” himself, in view of higher values, such as truth, justice, vocation, faithfulness in marriage, this “gift from above” must make each of us a strong man and, at the right moment,[…]