The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.
You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity
He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.
Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.
Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.
I'd been to Saint Petersburg before, but there's been a change in people's minds. Maybe it's a fashionable thing, but people have returned to the churches. I went to a Russian Orthodox and a Catholic church - both of the queues, enormous!
Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night?
How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our personal associations, in the mission field, in our chosen professions, in our families.
Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.