"The mercy of God is hidden in sufferings not of our choice; and if we accept such sufferings patiently, they bring us to repentance and deliver us from everlasting punishment."

St. Mark the Ascetic

One must see God in everyone.


St. Catherine Laboure

Indeed. My priest often says that we are 'icons' of Christ and when we look at another, we are looking at an 'icon' of Christ.

There's something I think people may forget about the whole icon conflict, and that's how necessary it is we do see past the material and to Heaven, and how prone, the more lifelike things are to be dangerous.

'When your brother attacks you, whatever the insults are, if you get angry at him, you are getting angry without cause. Even if he were to pull out your right eye, and to cut off your right hand, if you get angry at him, you are getting angry without cause. Yet if he were to try to take you away from God, then be angry.'

St. Poemen

"Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness."
- Metropolitan Jonah of the OCA

"The Church is the Bride of Christ but is also the Cross upon which He is daily crucified."
- Dorothy Day

'Who could ever understand fully that eternal weight of glory which a single moment spent in cheerfully carrying a cross obtains for us? Who could understand the glory gained in Heaven by a year, and sometimes a whole lifetime, of crosses and suffering.'

St. Louis Marie de Montfort

"Rejoice in hope; be patient under trials; perservere in prayer."

Romans 12:12

"For the message of the Cross is foolishness for those who are perishing but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God."

I Corinthians 1:18

"When the time comes as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgement, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of lonliness. You have no advocates, you are there standing alone before God - and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine.

But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world - and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, "Spare him, because he loves us" - and God will look at you and say not, "Did you succeed?" but "Did you try?"

- Henry Hyde

I post this in memory of my dear friends Fr. Paul Marx, OSB and John Everett, former director of St. Joseph's Helpers and the White Rose Women's Center in Dallas (reposed May 5, 2006)

This is a good quote, and something we need to remember at times of trial, small or large, temporary or permanent...

This life is but a small journey.

Thought provoking words!

'If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.'

St. Leonard of Port Maurice

"At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity."
St. John of the Cross

"Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven." St. Ephraem

"... for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee." St. Augustine of Hippo