Confidence

It is confidence, and confidence alone, that must lead us to Love.
--St. Therese of Lisieux

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

--George MacDonald

Trust

We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future.

--George MacDonald

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Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua

Someone may ask how the Virgin gave birth to the Savior. She begot Him as a blossom emanates perfume. The blossom of the vine remains incorrupt after it has given off its perfume, and so likewise, faith leads us to believe that the modesty of the Virgin—the modesty with which She gave birth to the Savior—was not violated.

--words of Saint Anthony of Padua

Saint Anthony, pray for us.

Time is but a shadow

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude.
--Saint Therese of Lisieux

The friend of her husband

The first duty of the wife is to study to be in every way she can the companion, the help, and the friend of her husband.

--Reverend Bernard O'Reilly in The Mirror of True Womanhood

Holy Communion

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
--Saint Jean Vianney