How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world (William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice)

To comprehend the nature of a thing is to unlock the mysteries of its present, and more, to disclose the profundities of its future...

If men knew the peace good religious enjoy, the whole world would become a monastery - Saint Scholastica, +543

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like...

Come, we go for our people (the last recorded words of Saint Edith Stein, to her sister Rosa, as they were led to the...

Our Lord Jesus Christ is nonetheless one, the one true Son, both God and man; not a deified man on the same footing as...

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. ~ Saint Jean...

No one can have God for his Father, who does not have the Church for his mother (Saint Cyprian of Carthage, +258 A.D.)

Better to pray one psalm with devotion than a hundred with distraction (Saint Romuauld, +1027)

The Lord Jesus gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom...He gave His Mother Mary the keys to His heart (Pope Pius XII)