Go, sweep your house — St. Francis de Paola
Go, sweep your house, that is, your conscience, and be a good Christian. The recollection of injury is…a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. Be lovers of peace...
Category: Words of the Saints
The cross stands firm – St. Bruno
1- While the world changes, the cross stands firm. 2-Only those who have experienced the solitude and the silence of the wilderness can know the benefit and div...
The Church will always remain – St. John Bosco
All past persecutors of the Church are now no more, but the Church still lives on. The same fate awaits modern persecutors; they, too, will pass on, but the Chu...
The Saints on Ash Wednesday and Lent
“Why does the Church place ashes on our foreheads today? Why does she remind us of death? Death which is the effect of sin! Why?…To prepare us for Christ’s Pass...
Be the hammer not the anvil – St. Domenic
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. We must sow t...
The Best Penance – St. Peter Damian
“The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude...
God is love – St. Charbel Maklouf
Before the beginning was love. Everything came to be through love, and without love, nothing that has existed since the beginning, or is now, or will be forever...
