March 10
“Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
March 10
“Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
March 9
"Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring."
-St. Catherine of Siena
March 8
“To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.”
-Pope St. Gregory I
March 7
“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”
-St. Rose of Lima
March 6
“There are ways of being crucified that do not involve rough wood or heavy nails, but a love beyond our capacity to love, which means a love that has been given to us by God…”
-Servant of God Catherine Doherty
March 4
"O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen."
-Father Henri Nouwen
March 3
“Christ has gained for us not only new dignity in our life on earth, but above all the new dignity of the children of God, called to share eternal life with him. Lent invites us to overcome the temptation of seeing the realities of this world as definitive and to recognize that ‘our homeland is in heaven’ (Phil 3:20)”
-Pope St. John Paul II
March 2
“There are a lot of things you can give to Jesus—I don’t like to say, ‘Give it up.’ Well, you’re going to take it back. But give it to Jesus for Lent.”
-Mother Angelica
March 1
"Do you wish your prayer to fly toward God? Make for it two wings: fasting and almsgiving."
-St. Augustine