I have you in my heart, all of you, alike in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, as sharers in my joy.
Phil 1:6-11
The Good Master was born in the stable only to die on the Cross, His life, which I should study continuously, would show me all the riches of His love, I should see herein all the profound mysteries of His incarnation and redemption, I should discover what I have cost, I should appreciate the beauty and goodness of Jesus, and I shall then cry out. “O happy fault which has procured us such a Redeemer!”
St Anthansius
He alone is capable of elevating lowliness, of aggrandising that which is nothing, of filling with honour and dignity that which was contemptible.
Louis de Granada
To glory in adversity is not hard for the man who loves, for this is to glory in the cross of the Lord. But the glory given or received of men is short lived, and the glory of the world is ever companioned by sorrow. The glory of the good, however, is in their conscience and not in the lips of men, for the joy of the just is from God and in God, and their gladness is founded on truth.
The Imitation of Christ
The person in the Transforming Union is now ready for Heaven and thus for death. The purifications are complete and there is an identity of wills, divine and human. All is ready for the Lord’s coming.
The Fire Within
Here I should end this book, if I had not still to say a few words about Catherine’s patience, which is a thing more highly esteemed by the Church Militant than miracles in its saints, as St Gregory so rightly says, it is greater than prodigies and miracles.
Bl Raymond of Capua
Let us love Jesus and Mary, and become Saints, we can neither expect nor hope anything better. Farewell, then, until we meet in Paradise, at the feet of this most sweet Mother and of this most loving Son, there to praise them, to love them face to face for all eternity.
St Alphonsus Liguori
