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St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “Unhappy, then, the hardened sinner who resists the calls of God. Instead of yielding, and being softened by the voice of God, he ungratefully becomes more obdurate [stubborn], as the anvil is hardened by the strokes of the hammer: ‘His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith’s anvil’ (Job. Xli. 15). His punishment will be to find himself the same in death, although on the point of passing into eternity: ‘A hard heart shall fare evil at the last.’”
Pope Leo XIII (1885): “… Catholic faith cannot be reconciled with opinions verging on naturalism or rationalism, the essence of which is utterly to do away with Christian institutions and to install in society the supremacy of man to the exclusion of God.” (Immortale Dei #47)
St. Francis Xavier, Jan. 1548: “When I was at Malacca I established the custom that at the beginning of night the souls in Purgatory, and the souls of the living who are in a state of worldly sin, should be recommended to the prayers of the pious in all the streets. This practice not only encouraged the good, but threw terror into the wicked. The city appointed a man for the purpose… with a lantern in one hand and a bell in the other, and calling out from time to time in a loud voice… ‘Pray for the souls of the faithful Christians who are suffering in Purgatory’; and then, ‘Pray also for those who, lying under the burden of mortal sin, take no pains to be delivered from it.’”
“The division [of the Bible] into chapters so familiar to us in our modern Bibles was the invention either of Cardinal Hugo, a Dominican, in 1248, or more probably Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 1227.” (Where We Got the Bible, Our Debt to the Catholic Church, p. 58)
St. Louis De Montfort (c. 1710): “Saint Augustine says that whenever we say the Our Father devoutly our venial sins are forgiven.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 34)
Pope Martin I, First Lateran Council, 649, Can. 3: “If anyone does not properly and truly confess in accord with the holy Fathers, that the holy Mother of God and ever Virgin and immaculate Mary… her virginity remaining indestructible even after His birth, let him be condemned.”
Pope St. Gregory VII: “Therefore carry out in your works, beloved son, what you profess with your mouth; perform effectually what you declare; so that you may be in agreement with the Truth Himself when He exclaims: ‘He who loves me will keep my words’ [John 14:23], and elsewhere, ‘The proof of love is in the demonstration of things done.’ [Gregory I].” (April 4, 1074)
Pope Pius XII (1943), June 29, 1943: “But let this be a general and unshaken truth, if they do not wish to wander from sound doctrine and the correct teaching of the Church: namely, every kind of mystic union, by which the faithful in Christ in any way pass beyond the order of created things and wrongly enter among the divine, so that even a single attribute of the eternal Godhead can be predicated of these as their own, is to be entirely rejected.” (Mystici Corporis Christi # 78)
St. Louis De Montfort (c. 1710): “By this practice [the True Devotion to Mary which he teaches], faithfully observed, you will give Jesus more glory in a month than by any other practice, however difficult, in many years…” (True Devotion to Mary #222)
Acts 14:22- “… through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.”
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “… rightly was devotion to Our Lady called by St. Ephrem the passport of escape from hell.” (The Glories of Mary, p. 258)
St. John Chrysostom: “For it is the special character of true faith, that it asks for no reasons for the precepts laid upon it, but simply obeys what is commanded.”
St. Patrick: (c. 470) on his missionary journeys: “I went to you and everywhere for your sake in many dangers, even to the farthest districts, beyond which there lived nobody and where nobody had ever come to baptize, to ordain clergy, or to confirm people.”
Pope Pius X (1905): “And so Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: ‘We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.’” (Acerbo Nimis #2)
Padre Pio (1915): “This dreadful war [World War I] will indeed be a time of salutary purification for Italy and for God’s Church. It will reawaken in Italian hearts the faith that was hidden away, drowsy, as it were, and suffocated for lack of good will. It will bring forth most beautiful flowers in God’s Church in a soil that had become parched and dry…”
Second Council of Nicea, 787: “Anathema to those who apply the words of Holy Scripture which were spoken against idols, to the venerable images.”
“Wars,” remarked Jacinta of Fatima, “are nothing but punishments for the sins of the world.” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 178.)
St. Aphraates (c. 345): “When our Lord gave the Sacrament of Baptism to His apostles, He said thus to them: Whosoever believes and is baptized shall live, and whosoever believes not shall be condemned.” (Demonstration 1: Of Faith, #17)
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.”
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.”
“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)
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.”
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)
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.”
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.”
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)
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)
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)
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.”
“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)
“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)
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)
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)
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. 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)
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…”
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?”
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)
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.”
“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.’ (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.)
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)
“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)
“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. 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)
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 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)
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 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)
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.”
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.”
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)
“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)
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)
“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.)
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)
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.”
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
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.’”
Pope Pius IX (1862): “… whoever eats of the Lamb and is not a member of the Church, has profaned.” (Amantissimus # 3)
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