Grace

June 26

June 26

How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I’ve received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall know only in heaven.

                                                                        -St. Therese of Lisieux Read the rest…

Am I Catholic?

June 25

June 25

“If you’re a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches, and the climate makes no difference.”

                                                                        -Flannery O’Connor Read the rest…

Self-Sacrifice

June 22

June 22

 Feast of St. Paulinus of Nola (355-431)

What I have I give thee; we will go to Africa, and I will give myself for your son.”

                                                                               –St. Paulinus of Nola to a widow

whose only son was taken into

slavery by the son-in-law

of a Vandal king Read the rest…

What is my “Hammer”?

June 21

June 23

Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga

I am but a crooked piece of iron and have come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance.

                                                                        -St. Aloysius Gonzaga Read the rest…

Finding Joy in the Cross

June 20

June 20

I could not be happy without the Cross – I could not lay it down for all the world would give. With the Cross I am happy but without it would be lost.”

                                                –Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop Read the rest…

Safe Against Error

June 19

June 19

The soul that journeys in the light and the truth of the Faith is safe against all error.”

                                                                        –St. Frumentius, Bishop Read the rest…

Finding our Mother

June 17

June 17

Meditate often on the sorrows of the holy Mother, sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you seek the Cross, there you will find the mother’ and where the Mother is, there also is the Son.”

                                                                        -St. Paul of the Cross Read the rest…