“Watch, O Lord, with those who wake or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels and saints charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest your weary ones. Bless your dying ones. Soothe your suffering ones. Pity your afflicted ones, shield your joyous ones. And all for love’s sake.” …READ MORE
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“Do not look forward to the trials and crosses of this life with fear. Rather, look to them with full confidence that, as they arise, God, to whom you belong, will deliver you from them. He has guided and guarded you this far in life. Do you but hold fast to his hand, and he …READ MORE
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“The ultimate goal of fasting is to help each one of us make a complete gift of self to God.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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“Lent is like a long ‘retreat’ during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God in order to defeat the temptations of the Evil One. It is a period of spiritual ‘combat’ which we must experience alongside Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the arms of …READ MORE
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“A woman’s sensibilities play a great part in the life of a family and often actually determine its course, and these same sensibilities should play their part in the life of the nation and of mankind as a whole.” —Venerable Pope Pius XII
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“Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.” —Saint Teresa of Calcutta
