March 30
"This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy."
-Pope St. Clement I
March 30
"This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy."
-Pope St. Clement I
March 29
"I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors' defects-not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues."
-Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
March 28
“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
-St. Augustine
March 27
“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
-Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
March 26
“Fasting is a medicine.”
-St. John Chrysostom
March 25
“We do not become perfect by the multiplication of exercises, penances, and austerities, but rather by the purity of love with which we do them.”
-St. Francis de Sales
March 24
"Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads to God's deepening life in me."
-St. Ignatius Loyola
March 23
“One cannot desire freedom from the cross when one is especially chosen for the cross.”
-St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
March 22
"Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring."
-St. Catherine of Siena
March 21
“To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.”
-Pope St. Gregory I