Blessed Laura Vicuna: A Cheerful Attitude

A cheerful attitude will sustain you in all your difficulties, trials and sufferings in life.

- Blessed Laura Vicuna 

St. Francis de Sales: Tranquility

It is necessary before all things to obtain tranquility, not because it is the mother of contentment, but because it is the daughter of the love of God and of the resignation of our own will.

- Saint Francis de Sales

Wisdom from St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

God is there in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course, under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace.

- Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Hunger

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

St. Bernard of Clairvaux: All God Desires

For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return. The sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him.

- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Bl. Pope John XXIII: Discerning the Signs of the Times

Blessed John XXIII (1881-1963), Pope
Address for the opening of the Second Vatican Council 

 

Discerning the signs of the times: an important theme of the Second Vatican Council

In the daily exercise of our apostolic ministry, we are often offended when we learn what certain people are saying, who are filled with religious zeal yet lack correct judgment and level-headedness in their way of seeing things. They see only ruins and calamities in society's present situation. They are used to saying that our day and age has worsened profoundly in comparison with past centuries. They behave as if history, which is the teacher of life, had nothing to teach them and as if at the time of past Councils, everything had been perfect where Christian doctrine, customs and the Church's just freedom were concerned.

It seems to us that we must state our complete disagreement with the prophets of misfortune, who always announce catastrophes as if the world were close to its end.

In the present course of events when society seems to be at a turning point, it is better to acknowledge the mysterious plans of divine Providence which, through the succession of times and the work of human beings and most of the time against all expectations, reach their goal and arrange everything with wisdom for the good of the Church, even the events that are in opposition to it.

- Blessed Pope John XXIII

Bl. Gaetano Errico Exhortation

Let us kindle the love of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the hearts of all people.

- Bl. Gaetano Errico (1791-1860)

St. Albert the Great Quotation

An egg given during life for love of God is more profitable for eternity than a cathedral full of gold given after death.

- St. Albert the Great (1206-1280)

Sobering Words from Venerable Louis of Granada

If all the calamities which have existed in the world since the creation and all the sufferings of hell were put into one side of a scale, and put one mortal sin into the other, it would outweigh all these evils, for it is incomparably greater.

- Venerable Louis of Granada (1504-1588)