For God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting. – Saint John the Apostle

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Monday, April 7, 2014

Saint Quote: Saint Julie Billiart

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Days of darkness are perhaps our best and happiest days for glorifying the good of God.


-- Saint Julie Billiart


Saint Quote: Saint John Baptist de La Salle

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I had imagined that the care which I assumed of the schools and the masters would amount only to a marginal involvement committing me to no more than providing for the subsistence of the masters and assuring that they acquitted themselves of their tasks with piety and devotedness ... Indeed, if I had ever thought that the care I was taking of the schoolmasters out of pure charity would ever have made it my duty to live with them, I would have dropped the whole project. ... God, who guides all things with wisdom and serenity, whose way it is not to force the inclinations of persons, willed to commit me entirely to the development of the schools. He did this in an imperceptible way and over a long period of time so that one commitment led to another in a way that I did not foresee in the beginning of death.


-- Saint John Baptist de La Salle


Sunday, April 6, 2014

Saint Quote: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

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He who wishes to love God does not truly love Him if he has not an ardent and constant desire to suffer for His sake.


-- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga


Friday, April 4, 2014

Saint Quote: Saint Teresa of Avila

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It is impossible for a person who prays regularly to remain in serious sin; because the two are incompatible, one or the other will have to be given up.


-- Saint Teresa of Avila


Thursday, April 3, 2014

Saint Quote: Saint Joseph the Hymnographer



Let us now our voices raise,
Wake the day with gladness;
God Himself to joy and praise
Turns our human sadness;
Joy that martyrs won their crown,
Opened heav’ns bright portal,
When they laid the mortal down
For the life immortal.

Never flinched they from the flame,
From the torment never;
Vain the tyrant’s sharpest aim,
Vain each fierce endeavor:
For by faith they saw the land
Decked in all its glory,
Where triumphant now they stand
With the victor’s story.

Up and follow, Christian men!
Press through toil and sorrow;
Spurn the night of fear, and then,
O the glorious morrow!
Who will venture on the strife;
Who will first begin it?
Who will grasp the land of life?
Warriors, up and win it!


-- Saint Joseph the Hymnographer from his hymn “Let Us Now Our Voices Raise”

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Saint Quote: Saint Francis of Paola

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Be peace-loving. Peace is a precious treasure to be sought with great zeal. You are well aware that our sins arouse God’s anger. You must change your life, therefore, so that God in his mercy will pardon you. What we conceal from men is known to God. Be converted, then, with a sincere heart. Live your life that you may receive the blessing of the Lord. Then the peace of God our Father will be with you always.


-- Saint Francis of Paola


Saint Quote: Saint Melito of Sardis



For our Lord, when He was born man, was condemned in order that He might show mercy, was bound in order that He might loose, was seized in order that He might release, suffered in order that He might feel compassion, died in order that He might give life, was laid in the grave that He might raise from the dead.


-- Saint Melito of Sardis