If you want to eat vultures, you may as well eat seven of them, so that when people call you “vulture eater” you really deserve the name. If you want to become a Catholic, live as a faithful Catholic, so that when people see you, they know that you are a Catholic. If you are going to be a Christian at all, you might as well live entirely for God.
Work hard daily in your spiritual life, and pray always, because you are a child of God.
Glorious Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, we entrust ourselves to your angelic mediation. Please set into motion God’s plan for our lives, protect us from the evil one, deliver to us God’s holy word, and heal us of our sins. We thank you for the glorious duties you fulfill in the divine mission and rely upon you in our lives. Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, pray for us and mediate God’s grace to us. (My Catholic Life)
Lady, full and overflowing with grace, all creation receives new life from your abundance. Virgin, blessed above all creatures, through your blessing all creation is blessed, not only creation from its Creator, but the Creator himself has been blessed by creation - Saint Anselm.
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary which reminds us that our Blessed Mother Mary was assumed body and soul ...
