March 10
"The author has seen the marvel of the blood liquefaction at closest range and can give witness to the fact. Taking into consideration all the scientific investigations that have been made, he would say that a natural explanation of the phenomena does not seem possible."
-Blessed Cardinal Schuster
March 9
"We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable."
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
March 8
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
-St. Augustine
March 7
"To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them."
-St. Thomas Aquinas
March 6
"This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed."
-St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
March 5
"But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure. In order to preserve it there is nothing more useful than renouncing your own will and substituting for it the will of the divine heart. In this way his will can carry out for us whatever contributes to his glory, and we will be happy to be his subjects and to trust entirely in him."
-St Margaret Mary Alacoque
March 4
"The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest."
-St. Augustine
March 3
"For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear."
-St. Bernard
March 2
"I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it."
-St. Faustina
March 1
"Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases."
-St. Rose of Lima
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