How to love

If you really want to love Jesus, learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you how to love.
--Saint Gemma

Feast of the Purification of Our Lady (Candlemas)

 

"I have been amazed that some are utterly in doubt as to whether or not the holy Virgin is able to be called the Mother of God. For if our Lord Jesus Christ is God, how should the holy Virgin who bore him not be the Mother of God?"

--Saint Cyril of Alexandria in Letter to the Monks of Egypt 1, A.D. 427.

Beautiful

Fill the walls of your homes with beautiful art, fill the ears of your family with beautiful music, fill the souls of your children with beautiful stories, and there will be no room left for the insipid, the warped, the ugly, and the faithless.
--Father Anthony J. Brankin

Feast of Saint John Bosco

Everything and everyone is won by the sweetness of our words and of our works.

--Saint John Bosco

Show me your heart

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen 

Sunshine

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.”

--Helen Keller

Prayer

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with Someone: with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

--Georges Lefevre