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The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)

These African martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the mind of man might be directed not towards persecutions and religious conflicts but towards a rebirth of Christianity and civilisation! (Pope...

Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. (Acts...

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! Β And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the voice...

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well. (Saint Joan of Arc, +1431)

And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went,...

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow. (Saint Philip Neri, +1595)

What we commemorate before Easter is what we experience in this life; what we celebrate after Easter points to something we do not yet possess. This is why we keep the first season with...

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