Monday, June 30, 2025

Run while you have the light of life! (Saint Benedict, +543)

O crux benedĂ­cta, quĂŠ sola fuĂ­sti digna portĂĄre Regem cĂŠlĂłrum et DĂłminum, allelĂșia.  -  O blessed cross, which alone was found worthy to bear...

One must see God in everyone. (Saint Catherine, +1876)

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging...

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety...

And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight....

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

...a watchman always takes up his position on the heights so that he can see from a distance whatever approaches. Likewise whoever is appointed...

I look to all of you, brothers and sisters of every state of life, to you, Christian families, to you, the sick and elderly,...

I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits...