November 4th - St. Charles Borromeo
Prayer is the beginning, the progress and the complement of all virtues.
Prayer is the beginning, the progress and the complement of all virtues.
Always consider others as more holy and more worthy than you, at the same time strive to be as holy as you can be.
If we live our lives with the Lord, he will never disappoint us.
The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? - Psalm 27:1
You must strive, with all possible care, to please God.
Let us kindle the love of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the hearts of all people.
O God, we thank you for the glorious company of the apostles, and especially on this day for Simon and Jude; and we pray that, as they were faithful and zealous in their mission, so we may with ardent devotion make known the love and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The soul that journeys in the light and the truths of the Faith is safe against all error.
For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow.
Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
Remove from your lives the filth and uncleanness of vice.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and Alleluia is our song.
Physical death closes the night of this present life and introduces us to the rising of the future life.
It is not the work that we do that makes us saints, but the way in which we do it.
The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. The greatest and most overwhelming work of God's love.