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Jacinta of Fatima regarding those who would hurt them on their way to the apparition site


January 16, 2023

Spirituality

Jacinta: “If they hurt us, we are going to heaven.  But those that hurt us, poor people, are going to hell.” (Oct. 13, 1917, regarding those who might hurt them on their way to the apparition site – Our Lady of Fatima, p. 144)

Doctrine

St. Francis De Sales (1602): “Thus we do not say that the Pope cannot err in his private opinions, as did John XXII; or be altogether a heretic, as perhaps Honorius was.  Now when he (the Pope) is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church…”

The eternal things that never fade will soon be upon us


January 15, 2023

Spirituality

St. Boniface (A.D. 716): “Temporal things pass swiftly away, but the eternal that never fade will soon be upon us.  All the treasures of this world, such as gold, silver, precious stones of every hue, succulent and dainty food and costly garments, melt away like shadows, vanish like smoke, dissolve like foam on the sea.”

Doctrine

Pope Gregory II, A.D. 722: “The report of your loyalty to Christ and of your steadfast answers to the heathen when they urged you to return to the worship of idols that you would rather die than break faith with Christ once you had accepted Him filled us with great joy.”

God looks for those who are humble and contrite in spirit


January 14, 2023

Spirituality

Isaiah 66:2 – “All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord.  But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”

Doctrine

St. Ignatius (110): “Do not err, my brethren: the corrupters of families will not inherit the Kingdom of God.  And if they who do these things according to the flesh suffer death, how much more if a man corrupt by evil teaching the faith of God, for the sake of which Jesus Christ was crucified? A man so foul will depart into unquenchable fire; and so also will anyone who listens to him.”

St. Augustine On Those Not Being Worthy Of Salvation


January 13, 2023

Spirituality

Padre Pio (1913): “A woman who is frivolous as regards dress can never be clothed in the life of Jesus Christ and she loses adornment of soul once this idol enters into her heart.  Let these women adorn themselves, as St. Paul would have it (1 Tim. 2:9), modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel…” (Letter to Padre Agostino, 8/2/1913)

Doctrine

St. Augustine (428): “The salvation that belongs to this religion was never wanting to anyone who was worthy of it; and anyone to whom it was wanting was not worthy of it.”

St. Optatus (4th Century) Confirms The Papacy


January 12, 2023

Spirituality

Pope St. Gregory I: “For a man is made similar to the apostate angel when he disdains to be similar to men.  Thus after possessing the merit of humility, Saul at the summit of power was inflated with the swelling of pride.  He was indeed preferred through humility, but was indeed made reprobate through pride, as the Lord bears witness when he says: ‘Was it not when you were little in your own eyes that I set you as head of the tribes of Israel?’  And a little further below: ‘Now in a marvelous manner when he seemed little before himself he was great before the Lord, but indeed when he seemed great before himself he was little before the Lord.’”

Doctrine

St. Optatus (367): “You cannot deny that you are aware that in the city of Rome the Episcopal chair was given first to Peter; the chair in which Peter sat, the same who was head… of all the Apostles.”

Every man will either receive eternal punishment or reward


January 11, 2023

Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort (1706): “Make for me, if you will, a new road to go to Jesus, and pave it with all the merits of the blessed, adorn it with all their heroic virtues, illuminate and embellish it with all the lights and beauties of the angels, and let all the angels and saints be there themselves, to escort, defend and sustain those who are ready to walk there; and yet in truth, I say boldly, and I repeat that I say truly, I would prefer to this new, perfect path the immaculate way of Mary.” (True Devotion to Mary #158)

Doctrine

St. Justin Martyr (148): “… every man will receive the eternal punishment or reward which his actions deserve.  Indeed, if all men recognized this, no one would choose evil even for a short time, knowing that he would incur the eternal sentence of fire.”

Padre Pio in 1914: “It afflicts my heart to see so many souls apostatizing from Jesus”


January 10, 2023

Spirituality

Padre Pio (1914): “… it afflicts my heart to see so many souls apostatizing from Jesus.  What freezes the blood close to my heart is the fact that many of these souls become estranged from God solely because they are deprived of the divine word.  The harvest is great but the laborers are few.  Who is then to reap the harvest in the fields of the Church when it is almost ripe?  Will it be scattered on the ground by reason of the scarcity of the workers?  Will it be reaped by Satan’s emissaries who are, unfortunately, both numerous and extremely active?” (Letter to Padre Agostino, 4/20/1914)

Doctrine

St. Ambrose (382): “There are not enough hours in the day for me to recite even the names of all the various sects of heretics.”

“They have become insatiable in sinning. For there were adulteries everywhere and thefts”


January 9, 2023

Spirituality

St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation (#5), AD 318: “… they have become insatiable in sinning. For there were adulteries everywhere and thefts, and the whole earth was full of murders and plunder. And as to corruption and wrong, no heed was paid to law, but all crimes were being practiced everywhere, both individually and jointly. Cities were at war with cities, and nations were rising up against nations; and the whole earth was rent with civil commotions and battles; each man vying with his fellows in lawless deeds. Nor were even crimes against nature far from them, but, as the Apostle and witness of Christ says: For their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”

Doctrine

St. Gregory Nazianz (380): “Where are they who revile us for our poverty and pride themselves in their riches?  They who define the Church by numbers and scorn the little flock?”

There Were Very Few Catholic Bishops During The Arian Crisis


January 7, 2023

Spirituality

“At one point in the Church’s history, only a few years before Gregory’s [Nazianzen’s] present preaching (383 A.D.), perhaps the number of Catholic bishops in possession of sees, as opposed to Arian bishops in possession of sees, was no greater than something between 1% and 3% of the total.  Had doctrine been determined by popularity, today we should all be deniers of Christ and opponents of the Spirit.” (W.A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 39.)

Doctrine

In the time of the Emperor Valens (4th century), Basil was virtually the only orthodox Bishop in all the East who succeeded in retaining charge of his see… If it has no other importance for modern man, a knowledge of the history of Arianism should demonstrate at least that the Catholic Church takes no account of popularity and numbers in shaping and maintaining doctrine: else, we should long since have had to abandon Basil and Hilary and Athanasius and Liberius and Ossius and call ourselves after Arius.” (W.A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 3.)

How firmly Our Lady punishes those who work against the Holy Rosary


January 6, 2023

Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort (1706): “It would hardly be possible for me to put into words how much Our Lady thinks of the Holy Rosary and of how she vastly prefers it to all other devotions.  Neither can I sufficiently express how highly she rewards those who work to preach the devotion, to establish it and spread it, nor on the other hand how firmly she punishes those who work against it.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 27)

Doctrine

St. Robert Bellarmine: “… in God there is nothing except for essence and relation...” (De Christo, Book II, Chap. 26)

Let God's word be of superior authority to reason and sight


January 5, 2023

Spirituality

St. Basil, Letter 224: “They have written, as they have, what is all— or nearly all— for I do not wish to exaggerate— lies, in the endeavor to persuade men rather than God, and to please men rather than God, with Whom nothing is more precious than truth.”

Doctrine

St. John Chrysostom (370): “Let us therefore in all respects put our faith in God and contradict Him in nothing, even if what is said seems to be contrary to our reasonings and to what we see.  Let His word be of superior authority to reason and sight.”

Do not wonder if the world hates you


January 3, 2023

Spirituality

Pope St. Gregory VII (1082): “Do not wonder, dearest brothers, if the world hates you, for we ourselves also provoke it against us when we are resolutely opposed to its desire and condemn its works.  For what wonder is it if the princes of this world and the powerful of this age hate us… for shunning their depravities…”

Doctrine

St. Robert Bellarmine on the relations in the Trinity: “Some compare the Father to a fountain, who gives and does not receive; the Son to a river, who receives and gives; the Holy Spirit to a lake, who receives and does not divert the water elsewhere.” (De Christo, Book II, Chap. 27)

You should be most desirous to preserve the faith in all its purity


January 2, 2023

Spirituality

St. Vincent De Paul (1636): “I tremble when I think of the number of souls that live in a constant state of damnation!”

Doctrine

St. John Eudes (17th century): “Heretics not only differ from the Church in faith, but they also differ among themselves, a proof that they have not the one true faith, which is one.  The Holy Catholic Church has never suffered, and will never suffer, a difference in faith in regard to any article… You should be most desirous to preserve the faith in all its purity, since without it, it is impossible to do anything that merits Heaven.” (Man’s Contract With God In Baptism)

Jesus Christ taught us humility by His own example


January 1, 2023

Spirituality

St. Vincent Ferrer: “Jesus Christ, who has taught us humility by His own example, conceals His truth from the proud, and reveals it only to the humble.”

Doctrine

St. Aphraates, Syrian Father of the Church (336): “For from Baptism we receive the Spirit of Christ.  At that same moment in which the priests invoke the Spirit, heaven opens, and He descends and rests upon the waters; and those who are baptized are clothed in Him.  For the Spirit is absent all those who are born of the flesh, until they come to the water of re-birth; and then they receive the Spirit.” 

King Henry VIII: All Is Lost


December 31, 2022

Spirituality

“The King [Henry VIII] having ruined a most admirable constitution by unsatiable gluttony, was now grown so unwieldy that he could hardly enter by the doors, and was wholly unable to mount the stairs… When he was told that he was at the point of death, he called for a goblet of white wine, and turning to one of his attendants, said, “All is lost!’” (Rev. Dr. Nicholas Sander, The Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism, p. 164.)

Doctrine

St. Cyril of Jerusalem (350): “A great precept and teaching of the Holy Catholic Church, therefore, is belief in the resurrection of the dead – great and most necessary, but contradicted by many… Greeks contradict it, Samaritans disbelieve it, heretics mutilate it.”

Hell: Shrieks And Groans Of Sorrow And Despair


December 30, 2022

Spirituality

The Vision of Hell, shown by The Blessed Virgin Mary to the Fatima Children, 1917: She “showed them a sea of fire; and plunged in this fire the demons and the souls, as if they were red-hot coals, transparent and black or bronze-colored, carried by the flames which issued from it with clouds of smoke, falling on all sides as sparks fall in great conflagrations – without weight or equilibrium, among shrieks and groans of sorrow and despair which horrify and cause to shudder with fear.”

Doctrine

“… God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down with infernal ropes into hell to be tormented, to be reserved unto judgment.” (2 Pet. 2:4)

Whatever you do, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus


December 29, 2022

Spirituality

Colossians 3:17- “And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

Doctrine

“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to doctrine which is according to piety: he is proud, knowing nothing…” (1 Tim. 6:3-4)

Sinners banish the remembrance and thought of death


December 28, 2022

Spirituality

St. Alphonsus: “At present sinners banish the remembrance and thought of death, and thus seek for peace (although they never find it) by leading a life of sin; but when they shall be in the agonies of death, about to enter into eternity, ‘when distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace, and there will be none,’ then can they no longer fly from their evil conscience; they will seek peace, but what peace can be found by a soul laden with sins, which sting it like so many vipers?”

Doctrine

Pope Gregory XVI: “… nothing of the things appointed ought to be diminished; nothing changed; nothing added; but they must be preserved both as regards expression and meaning.” (Mirari Vos #7, August 15, 1832)

For in the Christian what comes first is faith


December 26, 2022

Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort: “… the Our Father and the Hail Mary which we have said devoutly over and over again and to which we have added good penitential acts, will never wilt or die and they will be just as exquisite thousands of years from now as they are today.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 11.)

Doctrine

St. Ambrose, (4th Century) Bishop and Doctor of the Church: “I shall now begin to instruct you on the sacrament you have received; of whose nature it was not fitting to speak to you before this; for in the Christian what comes first is faith.  And at Rome for this reason those who have been baptized are called the faithful (fideles).”

For a Child is born to us


December 24, 2022

Spirituality

“I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people: For, this day, is born to you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David… And suddenly there was with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly army, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.” (Luke 2:10-14)

Doctrine

For a Child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the World to come, the Prince of Peace.” (Isaias 9:6)

This secret in the order of grace should be known by Catholics


December 23, 2022

Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort: “As there are secrets of nature by which natural operations are performed more easily, in a short time and at little cost; so are there secrets in the order of grace by which supernatural operations, such as ridding ourselves of self, filling ourselves with God, and becoming perfect, are performed more easily.  The practice which I am about to disclose is one of these secrets, unknown to the greater number of Christians, known even to few of the devout, and practiced and relished by a lesser number still.” (True Devotion to Mary #82)

Doctrine

Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (#23), June 29, 1943: “For not every offense, although it may be a grave evil, is such as by its very own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Churchas does schism or heresy or apostasy.”

Those who question the power of God fall under judgment


December 22, 2022

Spirituality

Pope St. Clement I: “… after leaving with him she [Lot’s wife] changed her mind and was no longer in harmony, and as a result she became a pillar of salt to this day, that it might be known to all that those who are double-minded and those who question the power of God fall under judgment and become a warning to all generations.” (Epistle to the Corinthians, #11, First Century)

Doctrine

Pope Pius IX: “So, this charism of truth and a never-failing faith was divinely conferred upon Peter and his successors in this Chair…” (Vatican Council I)

How many Christians apostatized during the Roman persecution under Emperor Licinius


Spirituality

During the persecution of the Emperor Licinius (320 A.D.), “Many officials and soldiers were out of work for their persistence in Christianity… To avoid such troubles many Christians fled to a wandering life in the hills and the woods, just as they had done during the persecution of Diocletian.  Churches were closed or destroyed… On this occasion a new kind of torture was employed: the bodies of the martyrs were cut into small pieces by strokes of a sword and then thrown into the sea as food for the fishes.  Many Christians, however, had not the courage to resist and were not even willing to disturb their normal life by flight.  They fell into more or less complete apostasy.  We have no means of reckoning the number of these new lapsi, but it was not small, as is shown by the fact that the Council of Nicaea itself dealt with them and made provisions in their regard.” (The Age of Martyrs, p. 210)

Doctrine

Pope Nicholas I, To The Clergy Of Constantinople, 9th century: “… it was of no benefit for them to have started on the right path and then failed to persevere in it, ‘for it is the one who perseveres to the end who is saved’ [Mt. 10:22].  For what will it profit someone to give support to the truth at first and after a while to depart from the path of the truth as a result of malleability or fear or any other failing?”

When a Jesuit Brother would say his Rosary with such fervor


December 21, 2022

Spirituality

“The well-known Jesuit, Brother Alphonsus Rodriguez, used to say his Rosary with such fervor that he often saw a red rose come out of his mouth at each Our Father and a white rose at each Hail Mary.  The red and white roses were equal in beauty and fragrance, the only difference being in their color.” (St. Louis De Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary, p. 26)

Doctrine

St. Augustine (426): “Consequently both those who have not heard the gospel and those who, having heard it, and having been changed for the better, did not receive perseverance… none of these are separated from that lump which is known to be damned, as all are going… into condemnation.”

Pope Clement to the Corinthians (1st century)


December 20, 2022

Spirituality

Pope Clement to the Corinthians (1st century): “Seeing then that we are the portion of the Holy One, let us do all the things that pertain to holiness, forsaking slander, disgusting and impure embraces, drunkenness and rioting and detestable lusts, abominable adultery, detestable pride.” (#30)

Doctrine

St. Athanasius: “For thus, the former Jews also, denying the Word, and saying, ‘We have no king but Caesar’, were forthwith stripped of all they had, and forfeited the light of the Lamp, the odor of ointment, knowledge of prophecy, and the Truth itself; till now they understand nothing, but are walking as in darkness.” (First Discourse Against The Arians, Chap. 3, c. AD 360)

True Christians are intolerant of all other religions


December 19, 2022

Spirituality

St. Ignatius of Antioch, (107), preparing for martyrdom: “I look forward with joy to the wild animals held in readiness for me; I will coax them to devour me, so that they may not, as happened in some cases, shrink from seizing me… I am God’s wheat, and I am ground by the wild beasts that I may be found the pure bread of Christ.”

Doctrine

“The Christians were at once the objects of hatred and contempt [by the populace of the Roman Empire].  Because they were intolerant of all other religions, because they either denied outright the existence of heathen deities or regarded them as evil spirits whose worship was the greatest sacrilege and treason to the true God – they were called narrow-minded bigots…” (Fr. Laux, Church History, p. 44)

Fear Him who has the power to cast a person to Hell


December 18, 2022

Spirituality

“And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.  But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: fear ye him who, after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell.  Yea, I say to you, fear him.” (Luke 12:4-5)

Doctrine

Pope Pius IX: “He who deserts the Church will vainly believe that he is in the Church; whoever eats of the Lamb and is not a member of the Church, has profaned.” (Amantissimus #3, April 8, 1862)

“‘You crucified Me once before by your sins,’ answered Jesus”


December 17, 2022

Spirituality

“One day when Blessed Alan was saying Mass, Our Lord, Who wished to spur him on to preach the Holy Rosary, spoke to him in the Sacred Host: ‘How can you crucify Me again so soon?’ Jesus said.  ‘What did you say, Lord’ asked Blessed Alan, horrified.  ‘You crucified Me once before by your sins,’ answered Jesus, ‘and I would willingly be crucified again rather than have My Father offended by the sins you used to commit.  You are crucifying Me again now because you have all the learning and understanding that you need to preach My Mother’s Rosary, and you are not doing so.  If you only did this you could teach many souls the right path and lead them away from sin – but you are not doing so and so you yourself are guilty of the sins that they commit.’  This terrible reproach made Blessed Alan solemnly resolve to preach the Rosary unceasingly.” (St. Louis De Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary, p. 23)

Doctrine

Pope Pius XII: “… the washing of baptism distinguishes and separates all Christians [christianos omnes] from the rest whom this stream of atonement has not washed and who are not members of Christ…”

Concerning the pagan gods the Danes worshipped (9th century)


December 15, 2022

Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort: “I could tell you at great length of the grace God gave me to know by experience the effectiveness of the preaching of the Holy Rosary and of how I have seen, with my own eyes, the most wonderful conversions it has brought about.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 10)

Doctrine

Concerning the pagan gods the Danes worshipped (9th century), “Herigar, the faithful servant of the Lord, was angry with them and said, ‘Your vows and sacrifices to idols are accursed by God. How long will ye serve devils and injure and impoverish yourselves by your useless vows.’” (Life of Ansgar, The Apostle of the North, chapter 19)

To believe it makes no difference to which religion one belongs is perverse


December 14, 2022

Spirituality

“It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:31)

Doctrine

Pope Pius IX: “Also perverse is that shocking theory that it makes no difference to which religion one belongs, a theory greatly at variance even with reason.  By means of this theory, those crafty men remove all distinction between virtue and vice, truth and error, honorable and vile action.  They pretend that men can gain eternal salvation by the practice of any religion, as if there could ever be any sharing between justice and iniquity, any collaboration between light and darkness, or any agreement between Christ and Belial.” (Qui Pluribus # 15, Nov. 9, 1846)

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