A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, January 9, 2013, St. Ambrose

 

"When in Rome, live as the Romans do, when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
St. Ambrose

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A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, October 31, 2012, St Louis de Monfort

If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.
de Montfort, St. Louis-Marie (2010-02-14). True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin (Kindle Locations 427-430). ESaintLibrary.com. Kindle Edition.

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, October 24, 2012

“Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood.”
Saint Louis de Montfort

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Bl John Paul II

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Blessed John Paul II

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A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Do we not say that a person has a sense of humor if he can "see through things" and do we not say that a person lacks a sense of humor if he cannot "see through things"? But God made the world according to such a plan that we were constantly to be "seeing through things" to Him, the power, the wisdom, the beauty, and the source of all that is. In other words, the material was to be a revelation of the spiritual, the human the revelation of the divine, the fleeting and the passing, the revelation of the Eternal.

Bishop Fulton Sheen

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, August 29, 2012- Benedict XVI

(Note:  I don't often go to the same source twice in a row, but, look who I'm quoting!)

The worship of the golden calf is a self-generated cult. When Moses stays away for too long, and God himself becomes inaccessible, the people just fetch him back. Worship becomes a feast that the community gives itself, a festival of self-affirmation. Instead of being worship of God, it becomes a circle closed in on itself: eating, drinking, and making merry. 

Benedict XVI, Spirit of the Liturgy.

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, August 22, 2012, Benedict XVI

Mere possession of your own land and state does not give you freedom; in fact, it can be the grossest kind of slavery. And when the loss of law becomes total, it ends in the loss even of the land. The “service of God”, the freedom to give right worship to God, appears, in the encounter with Pharaoh, to be the sole purpose of the Exodus, indeed, its very essence. This fact is evident throughout the Pentateuch. – The Spirit of the Liturgy

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, August 8, 2012, St Augustine

Late have I love you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I love you!

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, July 18, 2012



Icon of Basil of Caesarea. Василий Великий, икона (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction between its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible among us.
St. Basil the Great

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, June 20, 2012,St Toribio



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Christ said, "I am the Truth"; he did not say "I am the custom." -- St. Toribio

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, June 13, 2012



"This discovery of Christ is never genuine if it is nothing but a flight from ourselves. On the contrary, it cannot be an escape. It must be a fulfillment. I cannot discover God in myself and myself in Him unless I have the courage to face myself exactly as I am, with all my limitations, and to accept others as they are, with all their limitations. The religious answer is not religious if it is not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition."  Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, June 6, 2012,St Aloysius Gonzaga

English: The Vocation of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, May 2, 2012

'Wishing to show that to fulfill every commandment is a duty, whereas sonship is a gift given to men through His own Blood, the Lord said: "When you have done all that is commanded you, say: 'We are useless servants: we have only done what was our duty'" (Luke 17:10). Thus the kingdom of heaven is not a reward for works, but a gift of grace prepared by the Master for his faithful servants.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

'My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His Divine help. I can do all in Him who strengthens me. His Power is infinite, and if I lean on him, it will be mine. His Wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him for counsel, I shall not be deceived. His Goodness is infinite, and if my trust is stayed in Him, I shall not be abandoned.'

Pope St. Pius X

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, April 11, 2012

For today, I offer a slight change of pace while trying to stay within the spirit of ‘A Word on Wednesday’.  The following quote is from Archbishop Chaput’s recent Kindle ebook, A Heart on Fire: Catholic Witness and the Next America.  I heartily recommend this book to all Catholics;  it gives a wonderful celebration of the truth the Church teaches that exemplifies the kind of thinking so common among our Founding Fathers.  We badly need to relearn these ideas today.

“Most people know [John Courtney] Murray for his work on Vatican II’s Decree on Religious Liberty. In his 1960 book We Hold These Truths—which has never gone out of print—Murray argues the classic Catholic case for the legitimacy of American democracy. But Murray’s real genius is tucked inside his earlier words from 1940, where he says that “a profound religious truth is at the basis of democratic theory and practice, namely the intrinsic dignity of human nature; the spiritual freedom of the human soul; its equality as a soul with others of its kind; and its superiority to all that does not share its spirituality.” (Kindle e-book edition, Location 114)

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, April 4,2012 St John Vianny

“One can offer himself as a victim for 8-15 days for the conversion of sinners. One can suffer cold, heat, deprive oneself of looking at something, go visit someone who would appreciate it, make a novena, attend daily Mass for this intention in places where it is possible. Not only would one contribute to God’s glory by this holy practice of praying for sinners, but one would obtain an abundance of grace.”  St John Vianny

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, March 28, St Agnes

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

St. Agnes

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, March 21, St Thomas Aquinas

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Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" [Jn 3:5].

St. Thomas Aquinas

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, March 14,St Patrick of Ireland

Image via WikipediaI bind to myself today the power in the love of the Seraphim, in the obedience of the Angels, in the ministration of the Archangels, in the hope of Resurrection unto reward, in the prayers of the Patriarchs, in the predictions of the Prophets, in the preaching of the Apostles, in the faith of the Confessors, in the purity of the holy Virgins, in the deeds of Righteous men.

St. Patrick of Ireland

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, March 7, 2012, St Elizabeth Ann Seton

Image via WikipediaIf I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

                                               St. Elizabeth Ann Seton