Quotes

“It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you. Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good. Love between man and woman cannot be …READ MORE

“When a woman is in travail, she has sorrow because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world” (Jn 16: 21). The first part of Christ’s words refers to the “pangs of childbirth” which belong …READ MORE

“To give worthy praise to the Lord’s mercy, we unite ourselves with your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to you because she is chosen from among men and angels. Through her, as through a pure crystal, your mercy was passed on to us. Through her, man became pleasing to God; …READ MORE

“Let all men know that grace comes after tribulation. Let them know that without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. Let them know that the gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase. Let men take care not to stray and be deceived. When we serve the poor …READ MORE

  “While she lived on this earth, she could only be close to a few people. Being in God, who is close to us, actually, ‘within’ all of us, Mary shares in this closeness of God. Being in God and with God, she is close to each one of us, knows our hearts, can hear …READ MORE

“We become what we love, and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ; rather, it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to …READ MORE