This is my last hour of life, listen to me attentively: if I have held communication with foreigners, it has been for my religion and for my God. It is for Him that I die.
Yes, true hope is only born from the Blood of Christ and blood poured out for him. There is blood which is the sign of death, but there is also blood that expresses love and life. The Blood of Jesus and the blood of the Martyrs, like that of your own beloved Patron St Januarius, is a source of new life - Pope Benedict XVI
Pray to God, ‘You are the Spirit, and I am only the trumpet, and without your breath I can give no sound.’
Whoever finds God finds everything, whoever loses God loses everything.
We must carry out the will of God rather than our own. This is what we pledge to do in the “Our Father”, which we recite every day. What a travesty it would be if, after praying that God’s will be done, we should carry out that will halfheartedly and only because we are obliged to do so - Saint Cyprian
My dear brothers and sisters, as Jesus reminds us of the demands of discipleship today, let us answer our call to discipleship better by knowing and acknowledging Christ in our lives; by denying our own desires, interests and needs for the greater glory of God’s name; by taking up our crosses daily and by following Christ as we live out our faith through our works.
Everything is a reminder of the Cross. We ourselves are made in the shape of a cross. You must accept your cross. If you bear it courageously, it will carry you to heaven.
Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent. [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow, but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life].
In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart. And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps.
He who esteems himself as nothing, where so ever he goes, or wherever he dwells, he shall find rest.
Always act in such a way, that if God should decide to call you from this world, you may enter not into His judgment, but into His peace.
To do the will of God, man must despise his own; the more he dies to himself, the more he will live to God.
It is time to be healed of our spiritual deafness and muteness, so let sincerely listen to God’s word proclaimed to us. Let us acknowledge and receive God’s word proclaimed and explained to us. Then let us go out and proclaim God’s word and our faith in Him to the world.
The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy - Saint John Damascene
As Jesus has chosen bread, which is very common, so must my life be, common … approachable by all and, at the same time, humble and hidden, like bread - Blessed Eugenia Picco
