"This is why the blessed Virgin is called powerful - nay, sometimes, all-powerful, because she has, more than anyone else, more than all the angels and saints, this great, prevailing gift of prayer....
Teaching The Culture of Pentecost
By spiritaflame 10:42 AM TeachingsSEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1John Paul II has spoken extensively about the culture of life and the culture of death. He also has coined the phrase...
“Holy communion is the shortest and surest way to Heaven. There are others, innocence, for instance, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of the...
Many of Jesus’ disciples who were listening said: “This saying is hard, who can accept it.” · “This saying” was the teaching of Jesus in the last two Sundays’ Gospel readings concerning his...
“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.There are those who seek knowledge in...
Call No One Father
"You should adore our Lord Jesus Christ, who makes Himself present to us on the altar, so that we might offer him the homage and adoration we owe. Pray that just as He...
"Life should be lived with self-lessness and generosity, always doing the tiniest thing right, and doing it for love." (Therese of Lisieux) The path to holiness is simple. Whatever we do, we do...
“Today the liturgy invites us to contemplate Mary, taken up body and soul into heaven. By a special privilege, she was enriched by divine grace from the moment of her conception, and Christ, who...
Jesus said to the crowds:“ I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh...
"The most deadly poison of our time is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise him to the greatest extent of...
“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” St.Francis of Assisi This simple prayer...
God is “the incomparable treasure hidden in the field of the world and of the human heart.(St. Clare)” So often we look in a variety of places for God. How often do we...
"Hope never lets you down, because it's a gift from the Holy Spirit...Paul tells us that hope has a name. Hope is Christ." (Pope Francis) While we are to hope in Christ, our...
"This sacred bread when eaten is not changed into our substance, but rather changes us into itself." (St. Augustine) Not only is the changing of bread and wine into the Body and Blood...
“A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either command them or be enslaved to them. It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.” (St. Dominic,...
In reflecting on today's, Feast of Transfiguration, Pope Benedict said “In our time too we urgently need to emerge from the darkness of evil, to experience the joy of the children of light!” This process...
"I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by...
"Since the age of three I have never refused God any wish." (St. Therese of the Child Jesus) To do this at such an early age is mindboggling. But even though we haven't...
