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The First Degree Of Humility


January 9, 2022

Spirituality

St. Benedict (c. 520): “The first degree of humility, then, is that a man always have the fear of God before his eyes, shunning all forgetfulness and that he be ever mindful of all that God has commanded, that he always considers in his mind how those who despise God will burn in hell for their sins, and that life everlasting is prepared for those who fear God.”

Doctrine

Pope Pius IX, Vatican I, 1870: “… no one can ‘assent to the preaching of the Gospel,’ as he must to attain salvation, without the illumination and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who gives to all a sweetness in consenting to and believing the truth.”

The Sufferings Of Saint Paul The Apostle


January 8, 2022

Spirituality

“Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck: and a night and a day was I in the depth of the sea.  In journeys often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils of the city, in perils of the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren.” (St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 11:25-26)

Doctrine

Pope St. Leo the Great: “… nor is it to be disputed that he who is loved by the assailants of the Faith must be a misbeliever.”

Each time a Hail Mary is said


January 7, 2022

Spirituality

St. Louis De Montfort (c. 1710): “Our Lady has shown her thorough approval of the name Rosary; she has revealed to several people that each time they say a Hail Mary they are giving her a beautiful rose and that each complete Rosary makes her a crown of roses.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 26)

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.”

This is indeed the teaching of the Catholic Church


January 6, 2022

Spirituality

St. Francis Xavier (1544): “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.”

Doctrine

Pope Gregory XVI (1832): “Finally some of these misguided people attempt to persuade themselves and others that men are not saved only in the Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life…  You know how zealously Our predecessors taught that article of faith which these dare to deny, namely the necessity of the Catholic faith and of unity for salvation… Omitting other appropriate passages which are almost numberless in the writings of the Fathers, We shall praise St. Gregory the Great who expressly testifies that THIS IS INDEED THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.  He says: ‘The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in her and asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved.’  Official acts of the Church proclaim the same dogma.  Thus, in the decree on faith which Innocent III published with the synod of Lateran IV, these things are written: ‘There is one universal Church of all the faithful outside of which no one is saved.’” (Summo Iugiter Studio)

“I guard you in advance against beasts in the form of men”


January 4, 2022

Spirituality

St. Ignatius of Antioch (110): “I guard you in advance against beasts in the form of men, whom you must not only not receive, but if it is possible not even meet, but only pray for them, if perchance they may repent…” (Letter to Smyrnaeans)

Doctrine

St. Thomas Aquinas (A.D. 1274): “Whatever therefore can be made, or thought, or said by the creature, as also whatever He Himself can do, all are known to God…” (Summa Theologiae, Pt. 1, Q. 14, A.9)

The Bible was multiplied and preserved by Catholic monks and priests


January 2, 2022

Spirituality

St. Francis Xavier (1545): “St. Francis Xavier spoke to the King of Japan particularly of the uncertainty and shortness of life; he bade him to think of the handful of dust and ashes which was now all that remained of so many great kings and emperors of whom the history of Japan told him, and urged him, before it was too late, to provide for his own soul.”

Doctrine

“The Bible was multiplied and preserved by the monks and priests.  All must now admit that it was really in monasteries that multitudes of copies of the Holy Scriptures were made.” (Where We Got the Bible, Our Debt to the Catholic Church, p. 73)

What is a canonization of a saint?


January 1, 2022

Spirituality

“Not everyone that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that does the will of my Father, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.  Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name?  And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.” (Matthew 7:21-23)

Doctrine

A canonization of a saint is “a public and official declaration of the heroic virtue of a person and the inclusion of his or her name in the canon (roll or register) of the saints... This judgment of the Church is infallible and irreformable.” (A Catholic Dictionary)

The best example for the children is the lives of their parents


December 31, 2021

Spirituality

Pope Leo XIII: “The best and most efficacious example for the children is the lives of their parents.  Parents must realize that they can provide for their [children’s] education properly and well only by exercising great vigilance... they must avoid [schools]… where errors concerning religion are deliberately interspersed with the teaching, or where impiety reigns…” (Caritatis #5, March 19, 1894)

Doctrine

Jude 1:7 -“As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication, and going after strange flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.”

St. Francis Xavier: “When all are baptized I order the temples of their false gods to be destroyed”


December 30, 2021

Spirituality

St. Isaac Jogues (Missionary to the North American pagans, 1642): “Indeed, under the influence of that terrific hate of the savages, I suffered beyond telling from the cold, from the contempt of the basest of them, from the furious ill temper of the women… Great hunger, also, I had to endure.  Since nearly all the venison, and on the hunt they eat scarcely anything else, was offered in sacrifice to the demons, I spent many days without eating… I suffered greatly from the cold, in the midst of the deep snows, with nothing to wear but a short and threadbare cloak… Though they had plenty of deerskins, many of which they were not using, they would give me none.  Sometimes, on an extremely bitter night, shivering from the cold, I would take one of the skins secretly; as soon as they discovered it, they would rise up and take it away from me.  That shows how terribly much they hated me… My skin was split open with the cold, all over my body, and caused me intense pain.” (Saint Among Savages, pp. 267-268)

Doctrine

St. Francis Xavier (1545): “When all are baptized I order the temples of their false gods to be destroyed and all the idols to be broken in pieces. I can give you no idea of the joy I feel in seeing this done, witnessing the destruction of the idols by the people who lately adored them…When I have done all this in one place, I pass to another… In this way I go all around the country, bringing the natives into the fold of Jesus Christ, and the joy I feel in this is far too great to be expressed…”

No gift of God is greater than to receive by His grace the Catholic faith


December 28, 2021

Spirituality

St. Gregory Nazianzen, Oration 7.22: “O you sons of men... how long will you be hard-hearted and gross in mind?  Why do ye love vanity... supposing life here to be a great thing and these few days many, and shrinking from this separation, welcome and pleasant as it is, as if it were really grievous and awful?”

Doctrine

Pope Leo XIII: “… no gift of God either to individuals or to nations is greater than to receive by His grace the Catholic faith, and having received it, to keep it with perseverance.  This gift contains an abundance of other gifts…” (Quod Multum #2, Aug. 22, 1886)

Worldlings are blind to the things of God


December 27, 2021

Spirituality

St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “Worldlings are blind to the things of God; they do not comprehend the happiness of eternal glory, in comparison with which the pleasures of this world are but wretchedness and misery.  If they had just notions, and a lively sense of the glory of paradise, they would assuredly abandon their possessions, even kings would abdicate their crowns – and, quitting the world… they would retire into the cloister to secure their eternal salvation.”

Doctrine

“Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith alone?” (James 2:24)

To many this seems a hard saying: ‘Deny thyself, take up thy cross, and follow Jesus’


December 26, 2021

Spirituality

“To many this seems a hard saying: ‘Deny thyself, take up thy cross, and follow Jesus.’ (Matt. 16:24).  But it will be much harder to hear that last word: ‘Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire’ (Matt. 25:41).” (Imitation of Christ, p. 119.)

Doctrine

St. Alphonsus Liguori (c. 1760): “How many are born among the pagans, among the Jews, among the Mohammedans and heretics, and all are lost.” (Sermons)

For, this day, is born to you a Savior


December 25, 2021

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)

If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you


December 24, 2021

Spirituality

“If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you.  If you had been of the world, the world would love its own, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (John 15:18-19)

Doctrine

Pope Leo XII (1824): “It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members… by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism… This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.” (Ubi Primum #14)

At the beginning of St. Isaac Jogues missionary journey


December 23, 2021

Spirituality

At the beginning of his missionary journey, 1634, St. Isaac “Jogues hardened himself against the long hours of crouching in the canoe, to the gnawings of hunger, to the monotonous sway of the boat, to the scorching heat of the sun, to the desolate loneliness, to the profound silences… in the nights he learned not to be disturbed by the fearsomeness of the terrible blackness, of the breathing forests, by the wail of the beast…” (Saint Among Savages, p. 68)

Doctrine

St. Fulgence (526): “Hold most firmly and never doubt in the least that not only all the pagans but also all the Jews and all the heretics and schismatics who end this present life outside the Catholic Church are about to go into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.”

When these Catholic saints were captured by the Iroquois in NY on a missionary journey in 1642


December 20, 2021

Spirituality

[When St. Rene Goupil, St. Isaac Jogues and companions were captured by the Iroquois in NY on a missionary journey in 1642]: “The executioners chose Rene Goupil as the next victim.  They sawed off the thumb of his right hand with an oyster shell.  So much blood spurted out that they feared he would die [they wanted to torture him more or trade him]… Then they turned to Couture… They pricked him with awls and pointed stakes, carved off shreds of his flesh, burned him with firebrands and glowing irons, until he fell lifeless under their cruelties… One of them discovered [later] that two of Couture’s fingers had been left intact… Towering with rage… he began to saw off the index finger of his right hand with the ragged edge of a shell.  He pressed down with all his might on the flesh and tore it, but he could not sever the tendons… Frenzied, he gripped the finger and twisted it until he tore it out, dragging with it a tendon as long as the palm.” (Saint Among Savages, pp. 219,221)

Doctrine

2 Cor. 4:3: “And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world [that is, Satan] hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.”

It is not lawful for the State to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion


December 19, 2021

Spirituality

Psalm 53:2- “God looks down from Heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.”

Doctrine

Pope Leo XIII (1885): “It is not lawful for the State, any more than for the individual, either to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion… This then is the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the Constitution of the State.” (Immortale Dei # 34-36)

It is impossible for God to approve all sects who profess false teachings


December 18, 2021

Spirituality

“And David said: The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine [Goliath]. And Saul said to David: Go, and the Lord be with thee.” (1 Kings 17:37)

Doctrine

Pope Leo XII (1824): “It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their membersby divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptismThis is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.” (Ubi Primum # 14)

Justice and reason forbid the State to be godless


December 16, 2021

Spirituality

“By the middle of the afternoon [the three Fatima children] were ravenously hungry, and went looking about the moor [the land] for something to eat.  Francisco tried some of the acorns of an azinheira which were now green enough to be edible, and found them palatable.  Jacinta decided that if they were so good it would be no sacrifice to eat them.  Instead, she picked up some acorns of a different sort under a large oak and began to munch them.  Yes, they were bitter, she admitted.  But she would offer the bad taste for the conversion of sinners.” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 58.)

Doctrine

Pope Leo XIII (1888): “Justice therefore forbids, and reason itself forbids, the State to be godless; or to adopt a line of action which would end in godlessness – namely, to treat the various religions (as they call them) alike, and to bestow upon them promiscuously equal rights and privileges.  Since, then, the profession of one religion is necessary in the State, that religion must be professed which alone is true…” (Libertas # 21)

All the damned have been lost through not praying


December 15, 2021

Spirituality

St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “All the damned have been lost through not praying.  If they had prayed, they would not have been lost.  And this is, and will be, their greatest torment in hell, to think how easily they might have been saved, only by asking God for his grace; but that now it is too late– the time of prayer is over.”

Doctrine

Syllabus of Errors, # 77: “In this age of ours it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all other cults whatsoever.” – Condemned by Pope Pius IX, Dec. 8, 1864

All that is left of the great ones of this world is a little dust enclosed in a tomb


December 14, 2021

Spirituality

St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “… the princes and monarchs of the earth… nothing remains of them but a marble tomb… which now serves to teach us that all that is left of the great ones of this world is a little dust enclosed in a tomb.  St. Bernard asks: ‘Tell me, where are the lovers of this world?’ and he replies, ‘Nothing remains of them but ashes and worms.’”

Doctrine

Pope Pius IX (1862): “… whoever eats of the Lamb and is not a member of the Church, has profaned.” (Amantissimus # 3)

Which sacraments imprint a sign on the soul?


December 13, 2021

Spirituality

“Blessed are they who wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates of the city. Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and unchaste, and murderers, and every one that loves and makes a lie.” (Apoc. 22:14-15)

Doctrine

Pope Paul III (1547): “If anyone shall say that in the three sacraments, namely, baptism, confirmation, and orders, there is not imprinted on the soul a sign, that is, a certain spiritual and indelible mark, on account of which they cannot be repeated: let him be anathema.” (Council of Trent, Can. 9 on the Sacraments)

"Whole continents yet unknown and millions of souls to save" - Saint Among Savages


December 12, 2021

Spirituality

“[As a Jesuit Novice, 1625] the thoughts of [St.] Isaac Jogues visioned a future in which he might spend himself utterly in the service of God.  He conceived the ambition of faring out into the far lands of the pagans and infidels as missionary.  His imagination carried him off to the apostolate of India, where St. Francis Xavier had converted thousands; to China and Japan, where the Jesuits were combating the bonzes; to the Americas, where were whole continents yet unknown and millions of souls to save.” (Francis Talbot, Saint Among Savages)

Doctrine

Pope Pius IV (1565): “Also all other things taught, defined, and declared by the sacred canons and ecumenical Councils, and especially the sacred and holy Synod of Trent, I without hesitation accept and profess.” (Profession of Faith at The Council of Trent)

Pope St. Pius V On The One Holy Catholic And Apostolic Church


December 11, 2021

Spirituality

Pope St. Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis, Feb. 25, 1570: “He who reigns on high, to whom is given all power in heaven and earth, has committed one holy Catholic and apostolic Church, outside of which there is no salvation, to one alone upon earth, namely to Peter, the first of the apostles, and to Peter’s successor, the pope of Rome, to be by him governed in fullness of power.”

Doctrine

Pope St. Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis, Feb. 25, 1570: “… the number of the ungodly has so much grown in power that there is no place left in the world which they have not tried to corrupt with their most wicked doctrines.”

Worldly goods can never satisfy the cravings of the human soul


December 10, 2021

Spirituality

St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “Worldly goods can never satisfy the cravings of the human soul... man can never enjoy happiness except in possession of the divinity. The experience of ages proves this truth; for if the goods of this life could content the heart of man, kings and princes, who abound in riches, honors, and carnal pleasures, should spend their days in pure unalloyed bliss and felicity. But history and experience attest that they are the most unhappy and discontented of men…”

Doctrine

Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Sess. 6: “But although Christ died for all, yet not all receive the benefit of His death, but those only to whom the merit of His Passion is communicated.”

God regards the humble with an affectionate eye


December 9, 2021

Spirituality

St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “God, says St. Augustine, sits on high; you humble yourself, and He descends to you; you exalt yourself, and he flies from you… He regards the humble with an affectionate eye, but the proud he beholds only at a distance.”

Doctrine

St. Alphonsus Liguori (1787): “If ever a pope, as a private person, should fall into heresy, he would at once fall from the pontificate.”

For everyone that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds


December 8, 2021

Spirituality

“And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened.  For everyone that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds…” (Luke 11:9-10)

Doctrine

Pope St. Leo IX, April 13, 1053: “I believe that the one true Church is holy, Catholic and apostolic, in which is given one baptism and the true remission of all sins.  I also believe in a true resurrection of this body, which I now bear, and in eternal life.” (Congratulamur Vehementer)

Pope St. Gregory the Great on the fewness of the saved


December 6, 2021

Spirituality

Pope St. Gregory the Great (c. 600), on the fewness of the saved: “The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.”

Doctrine

Pope Pius XI (1925): “Not least among the blessings which have resulted from the public and legitimate honor paid to the Blessed Virgin and the saints is the perfect and perpetual immunity of the Church from error and heresy.” (Quas Primas # 22)

Live your life with death before your eyes if you wish to live well


December 5, 2021

Spirituality

St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “My brother, if you wish to live well, endeavor to live during the remainder of your life in the presence of death.  ‘O death, thy judgment is good’ (Eccl. xli. 3).  Oh, how truly does he judge of things, and how well does he regulate his actions, who judges and regulates them with death before his eyes!  The remembrance of death makes us lose all affection for the things of this life.” (Preparation For Death, pp. 26-27)

Doctrine

Pope Pius XI (1928) on the unity of the Church: “… that unity can only arise from one teaching authority, one law of belief and one faith of Christians.” (Mortalium Animos #9)

On The Resurrection Of The Dead


December 4, 2021

Spirituality

St. Cyril of Jerusalem (350): “He that believes his body will remain for the resurrection is careful of his garment and does not soil it in fornication; but he that hath no faith in the resurrection gives himself to fornication, and abuses his own body as if it belonged to another. A great precept and teaching of the Holy Catholic Church, therefore, is belief in the resurrection of the dead…”

Doctrine

Pope Benedict XII (1336), ex cathedra: “… on the day of judgment all men with their bodies will make themselves ready to render an account of their own deeds before the tribunal of Christ, ‘so that everyone may receive the proper things of the body according as he has done whether it be good or evil.’” (Benedictus Deus, Denz. 531)

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