Friday, May 9, 2025

Crux stat dum volvitur orbis - The Cross stands, while the world turns (motto of the Carthusians, the only order never to be reformed)

We must all be on our guard against pride and empty boasting and beware of worldly or natural wisdom. A worldly spirit loves to...

Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared....

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth. (Saint Jerome)

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we...

That I will never do, because I am a Christian, and I shall die for God, and for him I will give many thousands...

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...