How I grieve, my God, that you are not known, that this savage country is not yet wholly converted to faith in you, that...

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless...

On hearing Christ’s voice, we open the door to receive him, as it were, when we freely assent to his promptings and when we...

This is my last hour of life, listen to me attentively: if I have held communication with foreigners, it has been for my religion...

Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and...

Let us then remember one another, united in mind and heart. Let us pray without ceasing, you for us, we for you; by the...

We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee, for by Thy Holy Cross, Thou hast redeemed the world.

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. (G.K. Chesterton)

arkness yields before the coming of the light, and grace exchanges legalism for freedom. But midway between the two stands today’s mystery, at the...