Virtue

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

--Blaise Pascal

Feast of Saint Benedict

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
--Saint Benedict

Saint Benedict, pray for us.

Love

"Who has ever found it repulsive to make sacrifices for someone he loves deeply? On the contrary, to give is precisely what love impels us to do."
--Reverend Gerald Vann

Our Lady of Akita, pray for the people of Japan.

Feast of Saint Joseph

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Joy

"And so it is that if joy produces patience, patience in its turn produces joy, and in the end the final joy of a final achievement:  the joy of the blessed ones whose troubles are for ever over, the joy that can never fade."
--Reverend. Gerald Vann, OP 

Feast of Saint Patrick

Whatever will come my way, whether good or bad, I may accept it calmly, and
always give thanks to God, who has ever shown me how I should believe in him
unfailing without end.

--Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick, pray for us. 

Share your courage

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

--Robert Louis Stevenson