“Dear children! Also today I am with you to tell you: Little children, [whoever] prays does not fear the future and does not lose hope. You are chosen to carry joy and peace, because you are mine. I have come here with the name ‘Queen of Peace’ because the devil…
(an excerpt from Saint John Paul II’s “Love and Responsibility“) Love consists in a commitment of freedom because, after all, love is self-giving, and to give oneself means precisely to limit one’s freedom on account of the other person. The limitation of one’s own freedom would be something negative and…
Jesus, in private revelation given to Gabrielle Bossis, on January 17, 1946: Don’t you see that faith should permeate everything you do? Faith in My actual Presence in you. Faith in the love that is leading. When you are very sure of the love living in you, what a change…
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…