“Blessed Lady, if I imitate your humility, I will be protected against temptations to pride. If I take on your purity, no impurity will tempt me. And so, with every other virtue you display. Help me to cover myself in the spiritual armor of God!” –Dr. Paul Thigpen, “A Year…
A letter from Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque to Sister Félice-Madeleine de la Barge (on January 5, 1689): I am satisfied, most beloved dear Sister, that we should write to each other, provided that we speak only of love and the cross. For the only thing I can say to you…
“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 Glories of Mary” by Saint Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori) Mary has been called an ark more spacious than that of Noah. For in that only two animals of each kind were received, but under the mantle of Mary all find room, both just and sinners. This was one…
(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…
(Our Lady, in private revelation given to a Benedictine monk) Turn to me in every need, great and small. Trust me to arrange all things to your advantage and to the glory of my Divine Son (cf. John 2:1-11). Share your life with me. Entrust to me your concerns, your…
(from a meditation by Saint John Eudes) How would we feel if a great monarch opened his vaults, all filled with money and precious stones, giving us permission to take as much as we wanted? This favor would be nothing in comparison with the indescribably rich gift the King of…
(Jesus, in private revelation given to Maria Valtorta on February 20, 1944) All those who so desire, who ask the Lord God to make them ‘saviors,’ must properly consider that Mary and I are the model and that those are the tortures to be shared in so as to save.…
(from “Meditations on the Sacred Heart” by Father Joseph McDonnell) 1st Prelude—Imagine Jesus saying to you, as He said to [Saint] Margaret Mary: “Behold this Heart, which has loved men so much.” 2nd Prelude—Ask for grace to understand and sympathize with the emotions of the Sacred Heart. There are three…
“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…