The Lord Jesus gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom…He gave His Mother Mary the keys to His heart (Pope Pius XII)
Quotes
But we who hope for the Son of God are persecuted and trodden down by those unbelievers. For the wings of the vessels are the churches; and the sea is the world, in which the Church is set, like a ship tossed in the deep, but not destroyed. For she has with her the skilled[…]
We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to[…]
Come, we go for our people (the last recorded words of Saint Edith Stein, to her sister Rosa, as they were led to the gas chamber on August 9th, 1942)
A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them. It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. (Saint Dominic Guzman, +1221)
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John 1:14)
Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears – of everything that concerns you. (Saint Alphonsus Ligouri, +1787)
Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God. (Saint Ignatius of Loyola, +1556)
Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world (Saint Martha, Jn 11:27)
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerors (Hilaire Belloc, who was born on this day 150 years ago)