Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. (Saint Hildegarde von Bingen, +1179)

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do. (Saint Robert Bellarmine, +1621)

We no longer die to be condemned, we die to be raised up and await the resurrection of all, which God will bring about...

Nothing is far from God (Saint Monica, +387)

In the contrast between our religious chaos and the religious certitude still strong throughout the Mohammedan world. . .lies our peril. (Hilaire Belloc)

Finally, be strong lest prosperity lift you up too much or adversity cast you down. Be humble in this life, that God may raise...

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline (G.K. Chesterton)

Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic. (Saint Jane Francis de Chantal)

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that...

I beg you to make these things known to the rest of our colleagues, so that through their encouragement the whole brotherhood may be...