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A devotion that is very pleasing to the Blessed Virgin


August 2, 2022

Spirituality

St. Alphonsus Liguori (c. 1760): “Say also, every day, three ‘Our Fathers’ and three ‘Hail Marys’ in honor of the Most Holy Trinity, for the graces bestowed upon Mary.  The Blessed Virgin once revealed that this devotion is very pleasing to her.”

Doctrine

Jude 1:3 “Dearly beloved… I was under a necessity to write to you, to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.”

The true meaning of “Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins...”


July 31, 2022

Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “The word ‘Rosary’ means ‘Crown of Roses,’ that is to say that every time people say the Rosary devoutly they place a crown of one hundred and fifty-three white roses and sixteen red roses upon the heads of Jesus and Mary.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 26.)

Doctrine

Pope Julius III, Council of Trent (1551): “If anyone says that those words of the Savior: ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained’ (John 20:22ff.), are not to be understood of the power of remitting and retaining sins in the sacrament of penance, as the Catholic Church has always understood from the beginning… let him be anathema.” (Denz. 913)

Whoever is found worthy, to him God readily gives His grace


July 30, 2022

Spirituality

St. Cyril (350): “If anyone harbors hypocrisy even in secret, God rejects that man as unfit for true service. But whoever is found worthy, to him He readily gives His grace. Holy things He does not give to dogs; but where He perceives a good conscience, there He gives the wondrous and salvific sea, at which demons tremble and which angels recognize.”

Doctrine

Pope St. Leo the Great (c. 450): “For whoever is led away from the path of the true faith, and changed to another, his whole journey is an apostasy; and the further he travels from the Catholic light, the nearer he comes to the darkness of death.”

The wicked are very quick to gang up with the wicked


Spirituality

St. Gregory Nazianzen: “… the wicked are very quick to gang up with the wicked… The proof is this: my closest friends who had recently shown me respect, now scorned me.”

Doctrine

Pope Leo XIII (1900): “But this supremacy of man, which openly rejects Christ, or at least ignores Him, is entirely founded upon selfishness, knowing neither charity nor self-devotion.” (Tametsi Futura #7)

St. Polycarp said this to the person who was about to martyr him


July 28, 2022

Spirituality

To the person who was about to martyr him, St. Polycarp (A.D. 69-155) said: “You threaten fire that burns for a moment and is soon extinguished, for you know nothing of the judgment to come, and the fire of eternal punishment reserved for the wicked.  But why do you delay?  Bring what you wish.’” (Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, Book 4, Chap. 15)

Doctrine

St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, Book 2, Chap. 30: “Melchior Cano teaches that heretics are neither parts nor members of the Church, and… he teaches that it’s inconceivable that someone is the head and pope who is not a member or a part…”

The Anglican Rite of Ordination is and has always been invalid


July 27, 2022

Spirituality

“Presently Francisco did begin to grasp what the Angel had meant by sacrifices.  From that day forth he vied with the girls in giving up little pleasures and satisfactions for the sinners of the world.  All three would spend hours at a time lying prostrate on the ground, repeating over and over again the prayer that the Angel had taught.” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 41.)

Doctrine

Pope Leo XIII, Apostolicae Curae, 1896: “… by Our authority, of Our own inspiration and certain knowledge We pronounce and declare that ordinations enacted according to the Anglican rite have hitherto been and are invalid and entirely void…” (Denz. 1966)

St. Catherine Laboure saw a vision of Our Lady in 1830


July 26, 2022

Spirituality

In 1830 St. Catherine Laboure saw a vision of Our Lady. She saw beams of light from the jewels on Our Lady’s hands going down toward the earth, and she observed jewels without such beams. Wondering about this, she asked Our Lady, who answered: “These are the graces men fail to ask of me!”

Doctrine

“I reject the heretical invention of the evolution of dogmas, passing from one meaning to another, different from that which the Church first had.” (Pope Pius X, The Oath Against Modernism, A.D. 1910)

St. Alphonsus: How many are born among the pagans, Jews, Muslims and heretics, and all are lost


Spirituality

Pope St. Leo the Great: “The desire to hurt us is indeed ever active in the tempter, but he will be disarmed and powerless, if he find no vantage ground within us from which to attack us.” (Sermon 78)

Doctrine

St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “See also the special love which God has shown you in bringing you into life in a Christian country, and in the bosom of the Catholic or true Church. How many are born among the pagans, among the Jews, among the Mohammedans and heretics, and all are lost.”

St. Patrick: “The miseries of Hell, as they truly are, no mind can conceive”


July 25, 2022

Spirituality

St. Patrick (450): “The miseries of Hell, as they truly are, no tongue can tell; no mind can conceive; for in their reality they are far more dreadful than they are thought to be.”

Doctrine

St. Aphraates (336): “And Jesus handed over the keys to Simon, and ascended and returned to Him who had sent Him.”

In the Old Covenant it sufficed for salvation to know God alone


July 23, 2022

Spirituality

“Other Christians accepted Hell on faith, because Christ had said repeatedly and with solemn emphasis that there is a Hell, but Jacinta had seen it; and once she grasped the idea that God’s justice is the counterpart of His mercy, and that there must be a Hell if there is to be a Heaven, nothing seemed so important to her except to save as many souls as possible from the horrors she had glimpsed under the radiant hands of the Queen of heaven.  Nothing could be too hard, nothing too small or too great to give up.” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 89)

Doctrine

St. John Chrysostom (c. 380): “Then (in the Old Covenant) it sufficed for salvation to know God alone. Now it is no longer so; the knowledge of Christ is necessary for salvation…”

St. Ambrose Speaking Of The Heretical Council Of Rimini


July 22, 2022

Spirituality

Proverbs 23:9- “… a fool… will despise the wisdom of your words.”

Doctrine

St. Ambrose (386): “This denial of the Divinity of Christ was written in the Council of Rimini, and I am right when I shiver at the thought of that Council.  I follow the teaching of the Council of Nicaea, from which neither death nor the sword shall ever be able to separate me.”

Heretics Are The Gates Of Hell


July 21, 2022

Spirituality

Isaias 33:14: “Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? Which of you can dwell with everlasting burnings?”

Doctrine

St. Thomas Aquinas (1262): “Wisdom may fill the hearts of the faithful, and put to silence the dread folly of heretics, fittingly referred to as the gates of Hell.” (Intro. To Catena Aurea.)

St. Athanasius: The Arians Are Not Christians


Spirituality

“The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.” (Ecclesiastes 1:15)

Doctrine

St. Athanasius, Discourse Against the Arians, Chap. 3, A.D. 356: “Therefore, since all that remains is to say that from the devil came their mania (for of such opinions he alone is sower), proceed we to resist him— for with him is our real conflict, and they are but instruments —that, the Lord aiding us, and the enemy, as he is wont, being overcome with arguments, they may be put to shame, when they see him without resource who sowed this heresy in them, and may learn, though late, that, as being Arians, they are not Christians.”

Water the garden of the soul by this prayer


July 20, 2022

Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “The Hail Mary is a blessed dew that falls from heaven upon the souls of the predestinate.  It gives them a marvelous spiritual fertility so that they can grow in all virtues.  The more the garden of the soul is watered by this prayer the more enlightened one’s intellect becomes, the more zealous his heart, and the stronger his armor against his spiritual enemies.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 46)

Doctrine

Second Council of Nicea, 787: “To those who dare to say that the Catholic Church ever accepted idols anathema!” (Seventh Session, Definition of Faith)

Idleness is the enemy of the soul


July 19, 2022

Spirituality

St. Benedict: “Idleness is the enemy of the soul…”

Doctrine

Pope Leo XIII (1902): “By his (Christopher Columbus’) toil another world emerged from the unsearched bosom of the ocean: hundreds of thousands of mortals have, from a state of blindness been raised to the common level of the human race, reclaimed from savagery to gentleness and humanity; and, greatest of all, by the acquisition of those blessings of which Jesus Christ is the author, they have been recalled from destruction to eternal life.” (Encyclical, Quarto Abrupto)

The devil and other demons became evil by their own doing


July 18, 2022

Spirituality

“Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death: a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.” (Job 10:21-22)

Doctrine

Pope Innocent III (1215): “The devil and other demons were created by God naturally good, but they became evil by their own doing.  Man, however, sinned at the prompting of the devil.” (Fourth Lateran Council)

In Hell, Nothing Is Found That Is Desired


July 17, 2022

Spirituality

St. Patrick (450): “In the Kingdom of God nothing is desired that may not be found: but in hell, nothing is found that is desired.  In the Kingdom of God there is nothing that does not delight and satisfy; while in that deep lake of unending misery nothing is seen, nothing is felt, which does not displease, which does not torment.”

Doctrine

St. Alphonsus (1750): “… a group of heretics, known as the Ubiquitists, maintained that hell is not restricted to any determined place, but is to be found everywhere, since God has not destined any special place for the damned.  This opinion, however, is evidently false, and contrary to the common belief of the Catholic Church which teaches us that God has established a definite place for the demons and the damned…” (What Will Hell Be Like?)

Decrees on doctrines of faith are invariable


July 14, 2022

Spirituality

Dan. 7:9-10: “I beheld till thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire.  A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.”

Doctrine

St. Francis De Sales (1602): “As to decrees on doctrines of faith they are invariable; what is once true is so unto eternity…”

The Angel to the Fatima Children: “Pray a great deal!”


Spirituality

“What are you doing?  Pray!  Pray a great deal!  The hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs for you.  Offer prayers and sacrifices constantly to the Most High.” (The Angel to the Fatima Children)

Doctrine

St. Robert Bellarmine, On Councils, Book 1, Chap. 19: “[The primacy of the popes at councils] is proven from the Apostolic Council, in Acts 15, in which Jerome affirms Peter to have presided in a letter to Augustine, which is 11 among the letters of Augustine.  Likewise from that [council] it is gathered that Peter rises first, speaks first, defines the matter first, and all, as Jerome said, followed his position.”

Sin blots out the wisdom and grace of God in the soul


July 13, 2022

Spirituality

“Sin is called… ‘a stain on the soul.’  A stain is a blot or ugly mark which destroys what is bright and comely.  A stain is caused by contact with soiling and unsuitable things.  Sin dims or blots out the brightness of perfected human nature; it blots out the wisdom and grace of God in the soul.  It is therefore a stain upon the soul.  We speak here of grave sin, not of the actual sin which is called venial.  A stain remains after the contact that caused it has ceased.  So also the stain of serious sin remains in the soul after the act of sin has been completed.  This stain is not removed except by a new act of returning by recovered grace to the unsmirched beauty of the soul.”  (Msgr. Paul J. Glenn, A Tour of the Summa, p. 162).

Doctrine

St. Athanasius: “When he extended his hands upon the cross, he overthrew ‘the ruler of the power of the air, who is at work in the sons of disobedience’ (Eph 2:2) and cleared the way to heaven for us.” (Letter 40 to Adelphius)

St. Basil: “When I look round, I seem to have no one on my side”


July 12, 2022

Spirituality

St. Basil, Letter 156: “Indeed, when I look round, I seem to have no one on my side. I can but pray I may be found in the number of those seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal. I know the present persecutors of us all seek my life; yet that shall not diminish ought of the zeal which I owe to the Churches of God.”

Doctrine

St. Robert Bellarmine, De Amissione Gratiae et Statu Peccati, Book 4, Chap. 11: “… although the image of God properly resides in the soul, nevertheless by reason of the soul the whole man is rightly said to be made to the image of God.”

Every thought and deed ought to depend upon God’s commandments


July 11, 2022

Spirituality

St. Basil, Letter 159: “For if, to me, to live is Christ, [Philippians 1:21] truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.”

Doctrine

Pope Pius XI (1937): “Whoever identifies, by pantheistic confusion, God and the universe, by either lowering God to the dimensions of the world, or raising the world to the dimensions of God, is not a believer in God.” (Mit Brennender Sorge #7)

Do not be a friend of the world


July 9, 2022

Spirituality

“… whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” (James 4:4)

Doctrine

Apocalypse 5:11-13- “Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!’  And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, ‘To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!’”

Pope St. Celestine I: “… pray that the faith may be granted to infidels”


Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “While St. Dominic was preaching the Rosary in Carcassone, a heretic made fun of the miracles and the fifteen mysteries of the Holy Rosary, and this prevented other heretics from being converted.  As a punishment God suffered fifteen thousand devils to enter the man’s body.  His parents took him to Fr. Dominic to be delivered… St. Dominic started to pray and begged everyone who was there to say the Rosary out loud with him, and at each Hail Mary Our Lady drove one hundred devils out of the heretic’s body and they came out in the form of red hot coals.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 30.)

Doctrine

Pope St. Celestine I (431): “… pray that the faith may be granted to infidels; that idolaters may be delivered from the errors of their impiety; that the light of truth may be visible to the Jews, and the veil of their hearts may be removed; that heretics may come to their senses through a comprehension of the Catholic faith; that schismatics may receive the spirit of renewed charity…”

On Those Who Put Their Efforts For Which No Reward Awaits


July 8, 2022

Spirituality

St. Gregory Nazianzen (4th century): “Seeing many people in this present age writing words without measure which flow forth easily, and expending a great deal of time on their efforts for which no reward awaits – or only empty chatter…”

Doctrine

St. Irenaeus (born A.D. 130), on meeting St. Polycarp (born A.D. 69) who knew the Apostles: “I remember the events of those days more clearly than those which happened recently, for what we learn as children grows up with the soul and is united to it, so that I can speak even of the place in which the blessed Polycarp sat and disputed… the discourses which he made to people, how he reported his discussions with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he remembered their words, and what were the things concerning the Lord which he had heard from them, and about their miracles, and about their teaching, and how Polycarp had received them from the eyewitnesses of the word of life, and reported all things in agreement with the Scriptures. I listened eagerly even then to these things through the mercy of God which was given me.” (quoted in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History)

St. Peter Canisius on Prayer


July 6, 2022

Spirituality

St. Peter Canisius: “There is no work more commended in Holy Scripture, none… more necessarily is to be exercised in this life than prayer.  The prayer of him that humbles himself shall pierce the clouds [Sirach 35:21].  Also, it behooves us always to pray [Luke 18:1], namely, with a zealous disposition of heart, and without hypocrisy or respect for the praise of men, that is to say, in spirit and truth.” (Summa Doctrinae Christianae, 16th century)

Doctrine

St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 3, Chap. 3, A.D. 180:  “Since, however, it would be very tedious in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who… assemble in unauthorized meetings; [we do this, I say] by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing] out the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops.  For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church [i.e. of Rome], on account of its preeminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere...”

Jesus said that His sheep know Him


Spirituality

Pope St. Gregory VII: “… without doubt… we shall punish heavily and most severely him who having an unjust case shall try to defend it…” (Nov. 24, 1078)

Doctrine

Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me.” (John 10:14)

Divine Revelation Was Completed With The Apostles


July 5, 2022

Spirituality

“Ananias, with Saphira his wife, sold a piece of land, And by fraud kept back part of the price of the land… But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart, that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost, and by fraud keep part of the price of the land?... Thou has not lied to men, but to God. And Ananias hearing these words, fell down, and gave up the ghost. And there came great fear upon all that heard it.” (Acts 5:1-5)

Doctrine

Errors of the Modernists #22: “Revelation, constituting the object of Catholic faith, was not completed with the apostles.” – Condemned by Pope Pius X

Pope Pelagius II On Those Who Are “Given Over To Flames And Fires” But Don’t Have The Faith


July 4, 2022

Spirituality

St. Euplius, before his martyrdom, said: “Brethren, love the Lord with all your hearts; for He never forgets those who love Him. He remembers them during life and at the hour of their death, when He sends His angels to lead them to His heavenly country.”

Doctrine

Pope Pelagius II: “Those who were not willing to be at agreement in the Church of God, cannot remain with God; although given over to flames and fires… there will not be for them that crown of faith, but the punishment of faithlessness…”

God is eternal, lacking all beginning or end


July 3, 2022

Spirituality

During the sixth and seventh centuries, the Church of Ireland stood in the full beauty of its bloom.  The spirit of the Gospel operated amongst the people with a vigorous and vivifying power; troops of holy men, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society, obeyed the counsel of Christ, and forsook all things, that they might follow Him.  There was no country in the world, during this period, which could boast of pious foundations or of religious communities equal to those that adorned this far-distant land.” (Laux, Church History, p. 182)

Doctrine

St. Thomas Aquinas: “Everything that begins to be or ceases to be does so through motion or change.  Since, however, we have shown that God is absolutely immutable, He is eternal, lacking all beginning or end.  Those beings alone are measured by time that are moved.  For time, as is made clear in Physics IV, is ‘the number of motion.’  But God, as has been proved, is absolutely without motion, and is consequently not measured by time.  There is, therefore, no before and after in Him.” (Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I, Chap. 15)

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