What menaces there were from the executioner, to frighten her; what promises made, to win her over; what influential people desired her in marriage!...

To enter the kingdom of God we must endure many tribulations. If there are many persecutions, there are many testings; where there are many...

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world (J.R.R. Tolkien)

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and...

There is an inertia in our nature that makes us dull; and in our attempt to penetrate your truth we are held within the...

Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptized; let us also go down with him, and rise...

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge -...

Go humbly, humble are the skies, And low and large and fierce the Star; So very near the Manger lies, That we may travel...

I am nothing. Only a tool in the hands of providence; a lowly instrument at the service of St. Joseph (Saint Andre Bessette, +1937)

This came to be fulfilled, as we know, from the time when the star beckoned the three wise men out of their distant country...