Monday, June 30, 2025

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.  Indeed, the Lord is near (Philippians 4:4-5)

Lead me to pastures, Lord, and graze there with me. Do not let my heart lean either to the right or to the left,...

O Catholic faith, how solid, how strong you are! How deeply rooted, how firmly founded on a solid rock! Heaven and earth will pass...

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as...

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerors (Hilaire Belloc, who was born on this day 150 years ago)

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly-disguised totalitarianism (Pope Saint John Paul II, Centesimus Annus)

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...

This indeed is that most Holy Name which was so desired by the patriarchs of old, so anxiously longed for, so long awaited with...

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by...

If we wish to help our neighbour, we must reserve for ourselves neither place, nor hour, nor time.  (Saint Philip Neri, +1595)