Wednesday, December 3, 2025

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)

With his humility went a rare and childlike simplicity: the thoughts of his heart were revealed in his words and actions. If he suspected...

Que soy era immaculada concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception (the 'Lady' to Bernadette Soubirous, March 25, 1858)

We follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed...

One forgives to the degree that one loves (Saint Francois de Laval, +1708)

It was surely fitting that divine Wisdom, which had built the house of the Church for its abode, should use most holy Mary as...

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love...

Prepare for great battles. Know that you are now on a great stage where all heaven and earth are watching you. Fight like a...

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown (Saint Ambrose of Milan, +397)

If in Christ we have been tempted, in him we overcome the devil. Do you think only of Christ’s temptations and fail to think...