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St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “Sacred Scripture enumerates a number of other torments which will afflict the damned [besides hellfire]. One of these is the ‘worm,’ to which the Scriptures refer frequently… most theologians explain it metaphorically as the remorse of conscience which will afflict the damned in the fire and darkness of hell. Forever will they have imprinted on their memories the results of their sins; forever will they repeat the words ascribed to the damned in the book of Wisdom: ‘We have erred from the way of truth, we wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction and have walked through hard ways. What hath pride profited us? Or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?... Such as these the sinners said in hell’ (Wisdom 5:6-14).”
Barnabas (A.D. 70): “… we descend into the water full of sins and foulness, and we come up bearing fruit in our heart…”
St. Isaac Jogues (1630): “Well must we use the time that is accorded us that we must do that in our life which we would have wished that we did at the moment of our death.”
“… He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15-16)
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “In the chronicles of St. Francis we read that the saint saw in ecstasy a great ladder ascending into heaven, at the top of which stood the Blessed Virgin and by which it was shown him he must ascend to reach heaven. There is another related in the chronicles of St. Dominic. There was an unfortunate heretic near Carcassonne, where St. Dominic was preaching the Rosary, who was possessed by a legion of fifteen thousand devils. These evil spirits were compelled, to their confusion, by the command of our Blessed Lady, to avow many great and consoling truths touching devotion to the Blessed Virgin; and they did this with so much force and so much clearness, that it is impossible to read this authentic account, and the eulogy which the devil made, in spite of himself, of devotion to the most holy Virgin Mary, without shedding tears of joy, however lukewarm we may be in our devotion to her.” (True Devotion to Mary #42)
St. Irenaeus (180): “… giving the disciples the power of regenerating in God, He said to them: ‘Go teach all nations, and baptize… Just as dry wheat without moisture cannot become one dough or one loaf, so also, we who are many cannot be made one in Christ Jesus, without the water from heaven…Our bodies achieve unity through the washing… our souls, however, through the Spirit. Both, then, are necessary.”
“There was another woman in Aljustrel [Portugal] who never lost an opportunity to revile the three [Fatima] children as liars and impostors… Jacinta said, ‘We must ask Our Lady to convert this woman. She has so many sins which she does not confess that she will go to Hell!’ They offered some penances for her. And never again did she give them an unkind word.” (Our Lady of Fatima, pp. 122-123)
“Fr. Hoecken has left us an account of a journey Fr. De Smet [the Apostle of the Rocky Mountains] made to the Sioux [heathen], in the depth of winter, through snow from fifteen to twenty feet deep. He was mounted on a lame horse; his feet, nose, and ears were frostbitten, his legs were stiffened with rheumatism, and he was starving. At night the storms raged and wolves howled around the camp. Yet Fr. De Smet’s soul overflowed with joy: ‘My one desire is, with the help of God’s grace, to bear suffering and fatigue as long as it is within my power to endure them. I place my hopes in the bosom of my Savior and await my reward from His bounty, not in this life, but in the life to come.’ Such heroism and devotion yielded abundant fruit. The Christians increased rapidly in numbers among both the Indians and the American Settlers.” (The Life of Fr. De Smet, p. 223)
When St. Thomas Aquinas chose to become a Dominican (c. 1245) he met with “severe opposition from his family… St. Thomas was literally captured by his brothers and imprisoned in the family castle… The most dramatic episode of his imprisonment, came when his brothers sent a temptress to his quarters. As soon as St. Thomas saw that the girl’s intention was to seduce him, he ran to the fireplace, seized a burning stick and, brandishing it, chased her from the room with it. Then he traced a cross on the wall with the charred wood. When he fell asleep soon afterward, he dreamed that two Angels came and girded him about the waist with a cord, saying: ‘On God’s behalf we gird you with the girdle of chastity, a girdle which no attack will ever destroy.’” (33 Doctors of the Church, p. 367)
“I am the Lord and I change not.” (Malachias 3:6)
St. Basil the Great (360): “Much time had I spent in vanity, and had wasted nearly all my youth acquiring the sort of wisdom made foolish by God. Then once, like a man roused from deep sleep, I turned my eyes to the marvelous light of the truth of the Gospel, and I perceived the uselessness of the ‘wisdom… of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away’ (1 Cor. 2:6). I wept many tears over my miserable life and I prayed that I might receive guidance to admit me to the doctrines of the true religion.”
“Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world were formed, from eternity and to eternity thou art God.” (Psalm 89:1-2)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “St. Augustine says that whoever does not shun dangerous occasions will soon fall into a precipice… The example of the unhappy Solomon should make us all tremble. At first he was most dear to God, and even inspired of the Holy Ghost, but by the love of strange women he was in his old age led into idolatry. Nor should his fall be a subject of wonder; for, as St. Cyprian says, to stand in the midst of flames and not to burn is impossible.”
St. Justin the Martyr (155): “… they are led by us to a place where there is water; and there they are reborn in the same kind of rebirth in which we ourselves were reborn… in the name of God… they receive the washing of water. For Christ said, ‘Unless you be reborn, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ The reason for doing this we have learned from the apostles.”
Pope Leo XIII (1896): “There is no duty which Christ and His Apostles more emphatically urged by both precept and example than that of prayer and supplication to the Almighty. The Fathers and Doctors in subsequent times have taught that this is a matter of such grave necessity, that if men neglect it they hope in vain for eternal salvation. Everyone who prays finds the door open… ask, seek, knock (Mt. 7:7).” (Fidentem piumque animum #2)
Psalm 139:4- “Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it completely.”
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.” (Luke 16:18)
Saint Bede the Venerable (c. 720): “Just as all within the Ark were saved and all outside of it were carried away when the flood came, so when all who are pre-ordained to eternal life have entered the Church, the end of the world will come and all will perish who are found outside.” (Hexaemeron)
“One night the sacristan saw St. Thomas Aquinas praying in the chapel and saw him elevated several cubits in the air. The sacristan heard a voice from the crucifix speaking to Thomas, ‘Well hast thou written of me, Thomas, what reward wilt thou receive?’ ‘None other than Thyself, O Lord,’ replied the saint.”
Pope Innocent III (1215): “If any bishop is negligent or remiss in cleansing his diocese of the ferment of heresy, then when this shows itself by unmistakable signs he shall be deposed from his office as bishop and there shall be put in his place a suitable person who both wishes and is able to overthrow the evil of heresy.” (Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 3)
St. Peter Canisius (16th century): “It is a shocking thing that Christians are not marvelously ashamed, who pollute themselves with filthy lust in the sight of God and His angels, whereas they have consecrated in Baptism their bodies and members as pure temples to the Holy Ghost, and to Christ our Lord.”
“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done…” (Isaiah 46:8-10)
St. Ambrose (390): “True repentance is to cease to sin.”
St. Robert Bellarmine: “… our adversaries… are destitute of arguments, and rich in calumnies…” (De Iustificatione, Book I, Chap. 3.)
“Augustine says that the woman [Eve] could not have believed the words of the serpent, had she not already acquiesced in the love of her own power, and in a presumption of self-conceit.” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. I, Q. 94, A. 4, Reply to Obj. 1)
Pope Pius XI (1937): “Since Christ… finished the task of Redemption, and by breaking up the reign of sin merited for us the grace of being the children of God, since that day no other name under heaven has been given to men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12).” (Mit brennender sorge #17)
St. Gregory Nazianzen: “It is better to lose something honorably than to possess it dishonestly. The Trinity knows this, as does my outspoken preaching (which also caused the wicked to hate me)…”
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “This [true] devotion [to Mary] consists, then, in giving ourselves entirely to our Lady, in order to belong entirely to Jesus through her. We must give her (1) our body, with all its senses and its members; (2) our soul, with all its powers; (3) our exterior goods of fortune, whether present or to come; (4) our interior and spiritual goods, which are our merits and our virtues, and our good works, past, present and future… and we must do it, further, without pretending to, or hoping for, any other recompense for our offering and service except the honor of belonging to Jesus Christ through Mary and in Mary…” (True Devotion to Mary #121)
St. Gregory Nazianzen: “… deadly envy did not rest, envy which destroys all things, whether openly or in secret.”
On the incredible transformation in Mexico following the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe: “The nine million baptisms between the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the death of Juan Diego and Bishop Zumarraga in 1548 created large Christian communities throughout most of central Mexico… The churches were decorated by Indian artists with frescoes and sculptures – a universe removed from the horrors they had painted and carved in the days of the Hummingbird Wizard [the satanic god of the Aztecs].” (Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol. 4, p. 625)
Mark 4:16-17: “… these are the ones sown on rocky ground… who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.”
St. Augustine (415): “Anyone who would say that infants who pass this life without participation in the Sacrament [of Baptism] shall be made alive in Christ truly goes counter to the preaching of the Apostle and condemns the whole Church…”
St. Francis Xavier (1544): “Those words of our Lord, He that is not with Me is against Me, will make you understand how destitute we here are of any friends to aid us in bringing this people to Jesus Christ. But we must not despond, for God at the end will render unto each one according to his deserts, and it is very easy for Him, when He pleases, to accomplish by means of a few what seemed to require the work of many… And how severe are the punishments which God at last inflicts on His enemies, we see well enough, as often as we turn our mind’s eye to the inextinguishable furnace of hell, whose fires are to rage throughout all eternity for so many miserable sinners.”
Pope Pelagius II, epistle (1) Quod ad dilectionem, 585: “If anyone, however, either suggests or believes or presumes to teach contrary to this faith, let him know that he is condemned and also anathematized according to the opinion of the same Fathers… Consider therefore the fact that whoever has not been in the peace and unity of the Church, cannot have the Lord.” (Denz. 246)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “God, says St. James, resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). The Lord has promised to hear the prayers of all… [But] The proud he hears not; according to the Apostle, he resists their petitions. But to the humble he is liberal beyond measure… ‘Give me, O Lord’, exclaims St. Augustine, ‘the treasure of humility’… St. Teresa relates of herself, that the greatest graces that she received from God were infused into her soul when she humbled herself most before the Lord in prayer.”
Pope Julius III, Council of Trent (1551): “If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist there are truly, really, and substantially contained the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ, but shall say that He is in it as by a sign or figure, let him be anathema.” (Can. 1 on the Eucharist)
Padre Pio once told one of his spiritual children: “In all the free time you have, once you have finished your duties of state, you should kneel down and pray the Rosary. Pray the Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament or before a crucifix.”
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 19), Aug. 15, 1832: “Here surely belong the infamous and wild plans of the Waldensians, the Beghards, the Wycliffites, and other such sons of Belial, who were the sores and disgrace of the human race; they often received a richly deserved anathema from the Holy See.”
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “Saint Bonaventure said (in his Psalter) that whoever neglected Our Lady would perish in his sins and would be damned… If such is the penalty for neglecting her, what must be the punishment in store for those who actually turn others away from their devotions!” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 30.)
Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas (# 19), Dec. 11, 1925: “When once men recognize, both in private and public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”
“You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matthew 5:27-28)
Pope Leo XIII (1880): “all [societies of the Catholic Church] have the same purpose in view, namely, by the diffusion of the Gospel light to bring the largest possible number of those outside the Church to the knowledge and worship of God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent.” (Sancta Dei civitas #5)
Our Lady of Fatima (1917): “I want you to come here on the thirteenth of next month, and to continue praying the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary… because only she [Our Lady of the Rosary] can help you.” (July 13)
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 5), June 29, 1896: “The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same for ever; those who leave it depart from the will and command of Christ, the Lord – leaving the path of salvation they enter on that path of perdition… He who observes not this unity observes not the law of God, holds not the faith of the Father and the Son, clings not to life and salvation.”
“… and his disciples came to him, saying: Explain to us the parable of the cockle in the field. Jesus made answer, and said to them: He that soweth the good seed, is the Son of man. And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire, so shall it be at the end of the world. The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:36-42)
Pope Pius XI (1930): “… [since] men do not reap the full fruit of the Sacraments which they receive after acquiring the use of reason unless they cooperate with grace, the grace of matrimony will remain for the most part an unused talent hidden in the field unless the parties exercise these supernatural powers and cultivate and develop the seeds of grace they have received.” (Casti Connubii #41)
“When we hear the voice of God calling us to virtue, we must not delay. The Devil, says St. Basil (c. 363), does not advise us to turn entirely from God, but only to put off our conversion to a future time. He steals away our present time, and gives us hope of the future. But when that comes, he steals away that also in the same manner; and thus by giving us present pleasure, he robs us of our whole life.” (Haydock Bible and Commentary, p. 1264)
Pope Leo XII (1825): “… the bridegroom himself, Jesus Christ said: Whoever does not hear the Church, let him be to you like a heathen and a publican.” (Charitate Chisti #14)
St. Ephrem (350): “We know from the Gospel that there are various places of torment. For it has been revealed to us that there is exterior darkness (Mt. 8:12), and so it follows that there is also interior darkness (Mk. 5). The fire of Gehenna is another place, the abode of weeping and gnashing of teeth (Mt. 25:30). Another place speaks of the worm that dieth not (Mk. 9:43). We read in another place of the pool of fire (Apoc. 19:20), and again of tarturus, of unquenchable fire (Mk. 9:42, 44)… The depths of the earth is another place. The hell where sinners are tormented, and the depths of hell, a more fearful place. The wretched souls of the damned are distributed throughout these places of punishment, each one according to the nature of his sins.”
St. Ignatius of Antioch (c. 105): “For this cause let us be Christ’s disciples, and let us learn to lead Christian lives. For whoever is called by any name other than this is not of God… It is monstrous to talk of Jesus Christ and to practice Judaism.” (To the Magnesians)
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and the moth consume, and where thieves dig through, and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor the moth doth consume, and where thieves do not dig through, nor steal.” (Matthew 6:19-20)
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442: “The Holy Roman Church also embraces, approves and accepts the holy synod of 150 fathers at Constantinople… Those whom they condemn, it condemns; what they approve, it approves; and in every respect it wants what was defined there to remain unchanged and inviolate.”
St. Alphonsus (c. 1755): “In the year 1611, in the celebrated sanctuary of Mary in Montevergine, it happened that on the vigil of Pentecost the people who thronged there profaned that feast with balls, excesses, and immodest conduct, when a fire was suddenly discovered bursting forth from the house of entertainment where they were feasting, so that in less than an hour and a half it was consumed, and more than one thousand five hundred persons were killed. Five persons who remained alive affirmed upon oath, that they had seen the mother of God herself, with two lighted torches set fire to the inn.” (The Glories of Mary, p. 659.)
Pope Gregory XVI (1841): “… what the Church has always thought about marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics is more than abundantly clear. Indeed she has always considered such marriages to be illicit and destructive both because of the disgraceful sharing in sacramental matters involved and because of the ever present danger of the Catholic spouse and improper upbringing of offspring.” (Quas Vestro #1)
“And Jesus said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men: but God knows your hearts: for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God.” (Luke 16:15)
Pope Leo XIII (+1888): “… where a law is enacted contrary to reason, or to the eternal law, or to some ordinance of God, obedience is unlawful, lest, while obeying man, we become disobedient to God.” (Libertas #13)
St. Francis Xavier, March, 1549: “You will sometimes meet with men… who doubt of the power and efficacy of the holy sacraments, and especially as to the Presence of the Body of Christ in the Eucharist. This comes from... their continual intercourse with pagans, Mahometans, and heretics, or from the bad example given them by some Christians… and even by some of our own priestly order... [for] they imagine that it is in vain that we teach that Jesus Christ is present in the holy sacrifice of the Mass, for that if He were there present, He would never suffer such impure hands to touch Him with impunity.”
“It was during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries that one of the greatest transformations in the history of the western world took place: the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Poles, Moravians, Bohemians, Hungarians, Serbs, Bulgarians, and Russians put from them their paganism with its horrid superstition and cruelty, and bowed their necks under the yoke of Christ.” (Laux, Church History, p. 275)
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “Where Mary is, there the evil spirit is not. One of the most infallible marks we can have of our being conducted by the good spirit is our being very devout to Mary, thinking often of her and speaking often of her.” (True Devotion to Mary #166)
Pope Pius IV (1565), Council of Trent: “I steadfastly hold that a purgatory exists, and that the souls there detained are aided by the prayers of the faithful…”
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