August 24
Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle
“The Apostles were the nucleus of the Church, the new Israel, the first visible manifestations of Christ’s Mystical Body.”
-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Category Archives: Gracelines
Grace in the struggle
August 23
Feast of St. Rose of Lima (1586 – 1617)
“Let all men know that grace comes after tribulation. Let them know that the gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase. This is the only true stairway to paradise, and without the cross they can find no roads to climb to heaven.”
-St. Rose of Lima
We must forgive
August 22
“We must forgive the society from which we come; we must forgive the ways it has hurt us. We must have forgiveness for all the pain that we have unknowingly experienced, even in the womb before our birth. We must forgive those who may not have understood us, or have seemingly neglected us, or perhaps even rejected us.”
-Catherine Doherty
Unite yourself to the Savior
August 21
Feast of St. Pius X (1835 – 1914)
“My advice is that you receive Holy Communion frequently – if you cannot do so daily – and unite yourself to the Savior. Make frequent visits to Him in the solitude and silence of His tabernacle.”
-St. Pius X
Happy in Him
August 20
St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor
“For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him.”
-St. Bernard
One with Jesus
August 19
Feast of St. John Eudes, Priest (1601 – 1680)
“You are one with Jesus as the body is one with the head. You must, then, have one breath with him, one soul, one life, one will, one mind, one heart. And he must be your breath, heart, love, life, your all.”
-St. John Eudes
Changing within
August 18
“When one is already leading an honest and regulated life, it is far more important, in order to become a true Christian, to change the within rather than the without.”
-Francois De Salignor Fenelon
The salvation that Christ brings
August 17
“The distance between spirituality and social action is not as great as many believe. Scripture does not reveal a spiritual man or a secular man. It speaks only of a whole man – integrated by the salvation that Christ brings.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Be strong
August 16
Feast of St. Stephen of Hungary, King (969-1038)
“Be strong lest prosperity lift you up too much or adversity cast you down. Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be chaste so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone.”
-St. Stephen of Hungary, King
Feast of the Assumption
August 15
Feast of the Assumption
Who is she that ascends so high,
Next the Heavenly King,
Round about whom Angels fly
And her praises sing?
Who is she that, adorned with light,
Makes the sun her robe,
At whose feet the queen of night
Lays her changing globe?
To that crown direct their eyes,
Which her head attires;
There thou mayest her name descry
Writ in starry fires.
This is she in whose pure womb
Heaven’s Prince remained;
Therefore in no earthly tomb
Can she be contained.
Heaven she was, which held that fire,
Whence the world took light,
And to Heaven doth now aspire
Flames with flames t’ unite.
She that did so clearly shine
When our day begun,
See how bright her beams decline
Now she sits with the Sun.
-Sir John Beaumont (1583 – 1627)
