28 February 2023
It is obvious that words alone are not going to help someone who is
naked and hungry. Someone whose faith does not go beyond words is useless. Such
faith is dead without works of Christian love that alone can bring it back to
life.
Venerable Bede
A Lukewarm Soul
27 February 2023
A lukewarm soul…Let us conclude, dear brethren, by saying that there is no state so much to be feared for a person as that of lukewarmness, because a great sinner is more easily converted then a lukewarm soul.
Saint John Vianney
A lukewarm soul…Let us conclude, dear brethren, by saying that there is no state so much to be feared for a person as that of lukewarmness, because a great sinner is more easily converted then a lukewarm soul.
Saint John Vianney
Humility
26 February 2023
Humility is a virtue by which a person has a proper opinion of himself because he knows himself well. This is the virtue that belongs to those who have set their hearts to the climb and have gone from virtue to virtue, from step to step, until they reach the highest peak of humility and gaze upon the Truth from the watch-tower of Zion.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Humility is a virtue by which a person has a proper opinion of himself because he knows himself well. This is the virtue that belongs to those who have set their hearts to the climb and have gone from virtue to virtue, from step to step, until they reach the highest peak of humility and gaze upon the Truth from the watch-tower of Zion.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Divine Mystery
25 February 2023
On this day we are bound with hearts up-lifted to adore the divine mystery: so that what is the effect of God’s great gift may be celebrated by the Church’s great rejoicings. God is the almighty and merciful. His nature as goodness, his will is power, his work is mercy.
Saint Leo the Great
On this day we are bound with hearts up-lifted to adore the divine mystery: so that what is the effect of God’s great gift may be celebrated by the Church’s great rejoicings. God is the almighty and merciful. His nature as goodness, his will is power, his work is mercy.
Saint Leo the Great
Prayer
24 February 2023
So that we might obtain this life of happiness, he who is true life itself taught us to pray, not in many words as though speaking longer could gain us a hearing. After all, we pray to one who, as the Lord himself tells us, knows what we need before we ask for it.
Saint Augustine
So that we might obtain this life of happiness, he who is true life itself taught us to pray, not in many words as though speaking longer could gain us a hearing. After all, we pray to one who, as the Lord himself tells us, knows what we need before we ask for it.
Saint Augustine
Humility
23 February 2023
Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.
CS Lewis
Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.
CS Lewis
Grace
22 February 2023
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
Saint Augustine
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
Saint Augustine
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