From “The Secret of Mary” by Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort: As it was through Mary that God came into the world the first time in a state of self-abasement and privation, may we not say that it will be again through Mary that He will come the second time?…
(from “The Interior Castle” by Saint Teresa of Ávila) Fix your eyes on the Crucified One, and all will seem easy. If His Majesty proved His love for us by such stupendous labours and sufferings, how can you seek to please Him by words alone? Do you know what it…
(an excerpt from “All You Who Labor” by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński) Work is certainly hard enough on its own, but when sadness is added to it, the burden is all the heavier. An impatient man tires himself out more and for longer at work: not only does he suffer from…
(an excerpt from “Christ the Ideal Monk” by Blessed Columba Marmion) We were made to be happy; the human heart has a capacity for the infinite; only God can fully satisfy us. “Thou didst make us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest…
(Jesus, in private revelation given to Maria Valtorta, on July 14, 1944) Man without Grace, which sin takes away, is nothing more than the tomb where the dead spirit putrefies. This is why, at the resurrection of the flesh, human beings, though all of them will have a common physical…
This week, I finished reading “The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity” by Dr. Carrie Gress. It contains many deep insights into: how radical feminism started (i.e., how it’s historically and ideologically connected to the warnings at Fátima), its ravaging effects on family life and society, and why…
(from a Spiritual Warfare talk given by Father Wolfgang Seitz in 2018) Do you have fears? Fear of suffering, fear of not being comfortable, fear of having children, fear maybe to become a priest, fear of not being accepted and loved, fear not to have enough money in your bank…
“Begin afresh every day as though it were the very first. You are forever at the beginning. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and I know. Is there anything I don’t know? All the same, I like you to tell Me where you have failed and to explain…
(from the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, #1306) O humility, lovely flower, I see how few souls possess you. Is it because you are so beautiful and at the same time so difficult to attain? O yes, it is both the one and the other. Even God takes great…
“You know, your preacher can preach a sermon, a priest can baptize, he can say Mass, but only one person directly contributed to the bodily Incarnation of the Logos, Second Person of the Trinity, Son of God. And that was Mary. So she has that unique position. And she even…