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Quote/s of the Day – 20 October – Hell

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Happy the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent.

Ps 1:1

Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels

Matthew 25: 41

First Point – I have deserved hell. Oh, how this realization ought to animate me! Second Point – I have deserved hell. Oh, how this knowledge ought to excite me to penance! Third Point – I have deserved hell, and perhaps I still deserve it. Oh, how I should fear!

Fr François Nepveu

There is, alas! a difference between the sufferings of this world and the torments of hell. The sufferings of this world are limited, and do not affect the whole man, the mind suffers only in proportion to its union with the body, and one member alone endures pain in proportion to its sympathy with the brain: but the tormenting fires of hell enter into every power of the soul, and every member of the body.

Fr Biroat

How is it that you are complaining that your animals are dying? Undoubtedly you must have forgotten all those sins which have been committed in your outhouses and stables during the five or six months of winter. You have forgotten that the Holy Ghost has said that everywhere this sin shall be committed, the curse of the Lord will fall.

St John Vianney

All the senses of the reprobate have each their peculiar punishment; their reason, or intellect, is punished by the pain of loss, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, a punishment far surpassing that of the senses. The memory of the reprobate is tormented by “the worm that dieth not,” that is by a most keen and constant remorse of conscience, which will give them no rest.

Fr Martin Von Cochem

The life in hell, is a life from which there is a total absence of sympathy and love. The life in hell is also a life of terror, and a life too, without pauses, diminutions, or vicissitudes. No angel ever wings his way thither on an errand of consolation. Yet this is the bright side of hell! This is hell, with the hell left out, the crowning woe, the loss of God.

Fr Faber

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Quote/s of the Day – 14 October – feed my lambs, feed my sheep

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I cannot concieve a man being spiritual who does not habitually say the rosary. It may be called the queen of indulgenced devotions. First, consider its importance, as a specially Catholic devotion, as so peculiary giving us a Catholic turn of mind by keeping Jesus and Mary perpetually before us, and as a singular help to final perseverance, if we continue the recital of it.

Fr Faber

The Rosary is the most powerful, at the same time the most efficacious of daily devotions, since all kinds of favours are granted to those who recite it devoutly and regularly. If you wish to know what particular graces we obtain therefrom, the following are those, which the Blessed Alain de la Roche learned from the Blessed Virgin herself: Sanctitas vitae, morum honestas, mundi contemptus, domorim disciplina – Holiness of life, integrity of purpose, contempt of the world, and peace of Christian homes.

Pere Nicolas de Dijon

The Christians of the primitive Church enticed the pagans, not only by their generous and unconquerable patience, but also by the holiness of their lives, and the heretics, as corrupt in their manners as they were in their belief, were the cause that the name of Jesus Christ was blasphemed among the Gentiles, and that the light and brightness of the Church was blackened by an infinity of calumnies. But Truth remains, errors pass away. All these heresies, aided by the eloquence, doctrine, and subtlety of their authors, supported by the powerful influence of the great and noble, sustained by the armies of emperors, have passed away, or are passing away.

Father Texier (17th cent)

What blindness! that each heretic forms his own idea of religion, according to his own private judgement, by refusing to subscribe to the tenets of the Church, that each one becomes the judge and umpire of eternal truths, that from some particular tenet they frame a form of worship, and introduce ceremonies to adore the God Almighty, or to appease His justice, that they undertake to reform, interpret and reverse the precepts of the law and Christian morals, which God has revealed to His Church, and which the inspired writers have left us!

Abbe Flechier

Priests should be holy, says God, because I am holy, and that My being holy I wish My ministers to be holy, and I cannot endure any but holy men to approach Me or My altars. Sanctity is a necessary appendage for the priest, and the want of holiness is a species of irregularity which is unbearable and which I cannot suffer. Let not those who have not the courage to try to become saints, be rash enough to be priests of My altars.

Abbe Flechier

You have the church, which is a refuge, and, if I may dare to say so, is a heaven in miniature. You have a sacrifice offered up and consummated, you have the house wherein the Holy Ghost showers down abundant graces, you have the tombs and relics of the martyrs and saints, and many other things, which should induce you to return from a state of sin and indifference to that of grace and justice.

St John Chrysostom

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Quote/s of the Day – 26 September – The Mercy of God

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When Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, Woman, you are delivered from your infirmity. And He laid His hands upon her, and instantly she was made straight, and glorified God.

Luke 13:6-17

Mercy does not tire of us, does not despair of us, does not give over its pursuit of us, takes no offence, repays evil with good, and is the ubiquitous minister of the precious Blood of Jesus.

Fr Faber

Oh! would that all sinners who sincerely repent of their past offences could see in His heart the feelings He has for them – no resentment, no bitterness there! and how thoroughly He forgives them.

Claude de la Colombiere

Sufferings borne with resignation to God’s holy will are a sign of predestination. Sick persons, on the contrary, who do not suffer with patience and resignation to the will of God are to be pitied, for they do not realize the priceless treasures which God desires to bestow on them.

Words of Consolation for the Sick and Afflicted

First Point – We can not distrust ourselves too much, neither can we have too great confidence in God. God refuses nothing to those who trust in Him. Our confidence in God is a proof of our love for Him, for we trust those we love. Nothing proves our gratitude for His kindness, His power, His wisdom and His providence, like confidence. His power is infinite; can we fail if He assists us? His wisdom is infinite; can we go astray if He guides us? His kindness is infinite; can He forget or neglect us if we rely on it?

Fr François Nepveu

You are frightened, my children, at what you see: all that you hear is frightening, but be consoled that it is the will of God being accomplished. Your days are numbered. His Providence watches over us.

Letter from Fr. Demaris to Catholics Who Have Been Deprived of a Priest

That illness has been your salvation. You have suffered, but your life has not been in danger. This is what the Lord has said, “I will strike him, and I will cure him.” He has struck you, your illness has awakened your faith, and that has been your cure.

St Ambrose

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Quote/s of the Day – 25 September – Serving God

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He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house; you gave Me no water for My feet; but she has bathed My feet with her tears, and has wiped them with her hair. You gave Me no kiss; but she, from the moment she entered, has not ceased to kiss My feet. You did not anoint My head with oil; but she has anointed My feet with ointment. Wherefore I say to you, her sins, many as they are, shall be forgiven her, because she has loved much.

Luke 7:36-50

First Point – Where were you one hundred years ago? In nothingness. Who has drawn you out of it? God, who, by a preference that you have not at all merited, has created you to His own image and likeness. For what end have you been created? To glorify God, to know and to serve Him, to do His holy will and to keep His commandments. We glorify God by knowing and by loving Him; we give testimony of our love by serving Him; we serve Him by keeping His commandments.

Father François Nepveu

The service of God is not only our most important, but our sole work. This is so obvious that it requires only to be stated. Time and words would alike be wasted in the attempt to prove it. Yet, alas! even spiritual persons need to be reminded of this elementary truth.

Fr Faber

O my Lord and my God! my heart is filled with bitter grief when I call to mind the years of my past life. Alas! far from having employed them in Thy service, I am one of those unfaithful servants who have had my own self interest in view. However, as You are my Lord and King, I this day take an oath of allegiance and from henceforth swear that my wish is to live and die in Thy service.

Henri Marie Boudon

We begin at once to go back in the spiritual life when we become lukewarm or lax in the service of God. It is the first step that leads to sin and death.

Fr Louis Bordaloue

Sometimes I allow the world to show them what it is, so that, feeling its diverse and various passions, they may know how little stability it has, and may come to lift their desire beyond it, and seek their native country, which is the Eternal Life. And so I draw them by these, and by many other ways, for the eye cannot see, nor the tongue relate, nor the heart think, how many are the roads and ways which I use, through love alone, to lead them back to grace, so that My truth may be fulfilled in them. I am constrained to do so by that inestimable love of Mine, by which I created them, and by the love, desire, and grief of My servants.

The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena

First Point – Death is fast approaching. Everything we see, everything we hear, proves it. In a short time we will be summoned to appear before the great Judge. We must die, indeed, but we must die a good death, if we would be saved. We try to persuade ourselves that death is still far off, as if by so doing we could keep away from us death itself. We should weep constantly over the brevity of life. A young man builds his hopes for a long life, on his youth; a man in middle life, on the vigor of his age; and an old man, on the strength of his temperament. Each one believes that he has resources against death that other men have not. How strange, but how common an illusion!

Father François Nepveu

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Quote/s of the Day – 11 August – The Fear of God

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God arises; His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee before Him.

Ps 67:2

The conversion of the heart begins with fear and finishes with love. If fear did what love should do, wo should have less to complain of – what is so shocking is, that nowadays we have reached that pitch of indifference which is neither moved by fear nor by love, and that the most frightful things do not make any impression on our hearts.

Half-hours with the Saints (Charles Kenny)

The loss of holy fear is the mischief of all mischiefs. For this fear is a special gift of the Holy Ghost, to be sought for by prayer and penance, by tears and cries, by patience and impatience, and by the very yearnings of an earnest and familiar love. It has always seemed to me very and unexpectedly beautiful when in the special office of St Phillip Neri, knowing what manner of man he was, and what peculiar spirit he was of, it says in the antiphon of the Magnificat, “Come, my children, and I will teach you the fear of the Lord,”…for how else shall the saint teach us divine love?

Fr Faber

Let us pass in review before ourselves the ancient patriarchs and their deep awe of God, how they trembled with holy fear when God was nigh, and looked upon all things as unspeakably hallowed over which He has so much as cast His shadow.

Fr Faber

 When all mankind are assembled in the valley of Josaphat, the prediction of Our Lord will be fulfilled: Men withering away for fear, and expectation of what shall come upon the whole earth.” For they will be in such anxiety and terror in anticipation of the approaching judgment that, if such a thing were possible, they would faint away. They will look up to the Heavens continually with fear and trembling, and every moment that the coming of the dreaded Judge is delayed will serve to increase their apprehension of this advent. At length the Heavens will be opened, and the sign of Christ’s triumphant victory, the sign of the holy Cross, will be carried down by a host of Angels and exhibited to the whole world.

Fr Martin von Cochem (The Four Last Things)

The powers of Heaven shall be moved, and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven, and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn.

Matt. xxiv. 29, 30