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Quote/s of the Day – 12 November – Thou art Christ

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They joyfully announced His ressurection to His disciples, they accompanied Him everywhere whilst He dwelt visibly on earth, they formed the procession and joined in the triumph on His entry into heaven, they will be His escort on the day of the last judgement, they will gather around Him in heaven for ever and ever, the noblest, the highest in the choir will esteem themeselves happy to be beneath His feet, and, angels as they are, they will gladly acknowledge a man as their King on the throne of God itself.

La Pere Dozennes

We need not fear our past sins if we have by heartfelt contrition washed them away in Jesus’ Blood. Even here we may rest in peace.

Fr Richard Clarke

In order that nothing should be wanting to heighten the glory of this great mystery, before Jesus was born, or rather from the beginning of the world and from alll ages, He has been promised to the patriarchs, He has been announced by the prophets, foretold by the sibyls, represented throughout by the ancient ceremonies, sacrifices, and every sacrament of the old law.

Louis de Grenada

Here is a wonder which in itself is out of the ordinary course of nature, of which experience has not taught us, a marvel which reason ignores, of which the human intellect cannot conceive, which astonishes heaven and earth, which creates admiration even among the celestial choir, and this mystery is, that Gabriel the archangel announces to Mary that ‘the Lord is with thee’, and the accomplishment thereof is the work of the Holy Ghost.

St Jerome

Jesus is equally great in His humiliations, because He is always God. Admiration is almost our sole portion.

Cardinal de Berulle

This faith, however, and this religion, preached by twelve poor sinners without science, without talent, without support, without favour, has overcome the world, and has made it acknowledge the truths of these inscrutable mysteries, and the folly of the cross has proved to be wiser than all the wisdom of ages.

Massillon

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Quote/s of the Day – 4 November – Talents

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And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his particular ability, and then he went on his journey.

Matt 25:14-23

God is content if we do all we can to love Him in our sphere of life, and He asks for nothing more. You sometimes regret that you cannot practice great austerities, which no doubt are due to Him for our past sins. Supply for these in another way, replace those fastings and watchings by fervent acts of love, He requires nothing more.

Paul Segneri

If you are always ready to do His will and to submit to it, then be sure that you love Him. Conformity to the will of God also makes a man happy as God, who is happiness itself.

Le Pere Nepveu

They reverenced even the scourges which God had sent to chasten them. The early Christians blessed the hands that struck them.

Massillon

According to St Augustine, the Divine Word falls on a weak and sensitive element, and it becomes a sacrament. This word also falls on impure hearts, and it makes them chaste, on the wicked, and makes them saints. It finds them in sin, and it converts them to God.

La Pere Antoine de la Porte

However enlightened and clever we may be, we must not, on account of that, neglect the assistance of holy instructions, however bright may be our intellect, we can easily go astray, however learned and scientific, we can always learn something from hearing the Word of God.

Massillion

Nothing can excuse the neglect of the duties of the position in life which God has conferred upon us. No amount of external work, not the unsleeping universal heroism of a St Vincent de Paul, can make up for the want of attention to our own souls.

Fr Faber

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Quote/s of the Day – 30 October – For You do not regard the person of men

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S. Vincent Ferrer observes, that the riches of this world are external, they enter not into the heart. “They are waters which do not enter space, where there is thirst.” The sinner may wear a beautiful embroidered robe, he may have a costly diamond on his finger, he may feast according to his desire, but his poor heart will remain filled with bitterness ; and therefore he will be, notwithstanding all his riches, pleasures, and amusements, ever restless ; and when anything opposes his will, he will become furious and angry like a dog that is mad.

St Alphonsus Liguori

When things go wrong with him who loves God, he resigns himself to the will of God, and therefore there is no need for him to quiet himself. The unhappy sinner, serves the devil serves a tyrant who repays him with sorrow and bitterness. What does not that revengeful man suffer, after he is revenged? that dishonest one, after he has fulfilled his design ? that ambitious one ? that avaricious one? Oh how many there are, who, if they suffered for God that which they suffered to bring themselves to condemnation, would become great saints.

St Alphonsus Liguori

Scripture speaks of a converted man as a new man, because, in fact, it produces a wonderful renewal in a regenerated creature. He is no longer himself, he is another man, another being, everything is changed. He cannot recognise the past, on whatever side you look, you find a new man.

Pere Vincent Houdry

I called and you rejected Me, I also in My turn, will laugh you to scorn. This is, at the same time, a reproach and a threat, which God makes to sinners.

Massillon

Woe to me! if I am so badly advised as to use my soul thus, woe to me! if I delay to the last moment of my life, that which should have been the occupation of my life.

De la Colombiere, SJ

Do not, I implore you, delay your conversion to God, for you know not the day appointed to carry you off. You tell me that God has given His grace to be converted, to some when they have reached to extreme old age. Does it follow from this that He will grant you the same favour? Perhaps He will grant it to me. Why add, perhaps? Because it has sometimes happened. What! does the question of your salvation depend on a perhaps?

St John Chrysostom

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Quote/s of the Day – 14 September – Glory in the Cross

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But it behooves us to glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: in Whom is our salvation, life, and resurrection: by Whom we are saved, and delivered.

Gal 6:14

We have sinned much: I know this well. For we are all liable for penalties. But we are not deprived of pardon; nor shall we fall away from repentance for we still stand in the arena, and are in the struggles of repentance. Are You old, and have you come to the last outlet of life? Do not consider even thus that you have fallen from repentance, nor despair of your own salvation, but consider the robber who was freed on the cross. For what was briefer than that hour in which he was crowned? Yet notwithstanding even this was enough for him, for salvation. 

St John Chrysostom

The tongue would not be sufficient to relate the delight felt by him who goes on this road, for, even in this life, he tastes and participates in that good which has been prepared for him in eternal life.

The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena

Benjamin, in the Old Law, was the figure of the predestinate: accordingly, it is to him that the cup, or chalice, is given – a gift, says St Ambrose, which is presented to only one of all the children of Jacob. To all, indeed, corn was given, but the chalice is reserved for one alone. In fine the great Doctor of our salvation, the Adorable Jesus, teaches us that His disciples shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice, the world which knows not God and is the enemy of God.

Henri-Marie Boudon

Heaven is open only to the innocent and to the truly penitent.

Massillon

Alas, my dear brethren, what have we become even since our conversion? Instead of going always forward and increasing in holiness, what laziness and what indifference we display! God cannot endure this perpetual inconstancy with which we pass from virtue to vice and from vice to virtue. Tell me, my children, is not this the very pattern of the way you live?

St John Vianney

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Quote/s of the Day – 11 September – The World

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For if anyone thinks himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Gal 5:25-26; 6:1-10

God alone can satisfy a soul, calm its anxieties, its suspicions, its fears, and every trouble that stirs within our hearts. Whenever I tried to fill up the aching void in my heart, said St Augustine, I found that nothing equalled the happiness I felt, in trying to do my duty in serving God.

Pere Croiset S.J

The world, it is that raging sea, on which are tossed to and fro vessels containing a crowd of sinners, whose cares and projects depend on the fortunes or misfortunes of life, whose aim seems to be to build palaces on sand, whose hopes are fixed on the fleeting enjoyments of this life, who seek for joys and pleasures which are a thousand times more fatiguing than they are worth.

Massillon

Ah! who can walk with a firm unshaken step in the midst of the passions of the world, amidst its seductive charms? Let us then think and meditate on the words of Job, ‘The life of man on earth is a continual warfare,’.

St Ambrose

The world is a monstrous assemblage of party spirits who revile each other, and regard each other with contempt, envy, and jealousy, void of honour and fair dealing.

Massillon

The world is more dangerous when it flatters us, than when it ill-treats us, we should be more careful of trusting it, when it invites us to love it, than when it admonishes us and compels us to despise it. They who follow the maxims of the world, experience nothing but misery, and the flattering expectation of happiness is delusive and vain. Would you wish not to be an enemy of God? Do not be a friend of the world.

St Augustine