No type of cruelty can tear down the religion established by the mystery of Christ’s cross. The Church is not diminished by persecutions, but...

Behold, the pagans have trodden your cross underfoot! Where is your glory? As I see all this, I would, in the ardent love I...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder (G.K. Chesterton)

At the first coming he was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At his second coming he will be clothed in light as...

Lord, I am here! What do you want me to do? Send me anywhere you like... (Saint Francis Xavier, +1552)

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

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

God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God. The God who made all things gave himself form through Mary, and thus he...

God has chosen the weak of the world, to confound the strong. He has chosen what is nothing,* so that no human creature may...

the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does...