Mary, Our Blessed Mother – Invoke her for anything and everything. She is the most powerful of all God’s Saints, higher than even St. Michael the Archangel. She will help you attain perfection and union with Christ, her divine son. St. Joseph – The Patron Saint of carpenters, because he was said to be oneContinue reading “List of Catholic Patron Saints”
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Quotes from Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.
“Without Me you can do nothing.” How many ambitions and points of honor, how much self-complacency, how many desires for self applause and for advancement in recognition of our personal worth are broken, like waves on the rocks, by these words!” – Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.
St. Thomas Aquinas on Eutrapelia
“Augustine says (Music. ii, 15): ‘I pray thee, spare thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.’ Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists in playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse toContinue reading “St. Thomas Aquinas on Eutrapelia”
Johannes Tauler – An Excerpt on Suffering
“The gospel tells us that the Lord went in search of the lost sheep. How are we to understand this search? It is thus: God seeks and searches for a humble, gentle and poor-minded soul, one that is detached from earthly things and rests indifferent — though that does not mean a sluggard who sitsContinue reading “Johannes Tauler – An Excerpt on Suffering”
Quotes from St. Francis de Sales and Other Saints
“Strive to preserve your heart in peace, and let no event of this world disturb it.” – St. Francis de Sales “Don’t lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” – St. Francis de Sales “Adversity it the touchstone of the soul, because it makes manifest the degree ofContinue reading “Quotes from St. Francis de Sales and Other Saints”
