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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?”
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)
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.)
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).”
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)
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)
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)
“Amen, Amen, I say to you: he who enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up another way, the same is a thief and a robber… I am the door.” (John 10:1,9)
After long preparations the Emperor Julian the Apostate [enemy of the Christians] “began his attack on the Persians in 363 A.D… On the march up the Tigris valley he was mortally wounded in a skirmish with the Persian calvary. As he was falling from his horse and saw the blood spurting from the wound, he is said to have exclaimed: ‘Thou hast conquered, O Galilean.’” (Laux, Church History, p. 97)
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?”
“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)
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): “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)
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)
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.”
“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)
St. Alphonsus: “… the virtue of chastity… St. Ambrose says that ‘whoever preserves this virtue is an angel, and that whoever violates it is a demon.’”
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…”
“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)
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)
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)
“It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:31)
2 Corinthians 11:3- “But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
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)
Pope St. Gregory VII, Dec. 11, 1080: “But the enemies of the cross of Christ – no, rather, the foes of their own souls, rise up against us and, stricken by the blindness of madness, against their own salvation endeavor to tread holy Church underfoot… In truth, as you know, we have incurred the hatred of these people mainly for this reason – that we sought to deliver them from the snares of the devil and to lead them back to the bosom of mother Church.”
Pope Leo XIII, Octobri Mense (#2), Sept. 22, 1891: “That she [the Church] may teach men the truth and may guide them to eternal salvation, she must enter upon a daily war; and throughout the course of ages she has fought, even to martyrdom…”
John 3:30- “He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Pope Leo XIII, Exeunte iam anno (#9), Dec. 25, 1888: “For Jesus Christ redeemed the human race once by the shedding of His blood, but the power of so great a work and gift is for all ages; ‘neither is there salvation in any other’ (Acts 4:12).”
Fr. De Smet: “The Indians know no blasphemous words, and often pass years without an angry word being spoken. But when drunk – and now they get drink in large quantities – all the good qualities of the Indian disappear, and he no longer resembles man; one must flee from him. Their cries and howls are terrible; they fall upon each other, biting noses and ears, mutilating each other in a horrible manner. Since our arrival, four Otoes and three Potawatomies have been killed in these drunken orgies.” (The Life of Fr. De Smet, pp. 83-84)
Pope Leo XIII: “Miserable it is to live in a barbarous state and with savage manners: but more miserable to lack the knowledge of that which is highest, and to dwell in ignorance of the one true God.” (Quarto abeunte saeculo #4, July 16, 1892)
St. Anselm: “If thou wouldst be certain of being in the number of the elect, strive to be one of the few, not of the many. And if thou wouldst be quite sure of thy salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few… Do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer… that they may attain everlasting blessedness.”
St. Fulgence, The Rule of Faith, (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.”
St. Francis Xavier: “… one is what he is before God… and nothing more, even if… everyone else thinks otherwise.”
Pope Pius X: “… it is well known that to the Church there belongs no right whatsoever to innovate anything touching on the substance of the sacraments…” (Ex quo, Dec. 26, 1910)
St. Alphonsus: “Man’s life is short: he cometh forth as a flower, and is destroyed’ (Job 14: 1,2). The Lord commanded Isaias to preach this very truth: ‘Cry,’ He said to him, ‘all flesh is grass… indeed the people is grass. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen’ (Is. 40:6-7). The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.”
Pope Martin V: “This holy synod… declares, defines and decrees that the said John Wyclif was a notorious and obstinate heretic who died in heresy, and it anathematizes him and condemns his memory. It decrees and orders that his body and bones are to be exhumed, if they can be identified among the corpses of the faithful, and to be scattered far from a burial place of the church…” (Council of Constance, Session 8, “Condemnation of Wyclif,” May 4, 1415)
St. John Chrysostom: “… it is not possible for a virtuous person who travels by the straight and narrow path and follows Christ’s commands to enjoy the praise and admiration of all people, so strong is the impulse of evil and the resistance to virtue.” (Homily 23 on Genesis)
“Lucia found Jacinta sitting alone, still and very pensive, gazing at nothing. ‘What are you thinking of, Jacinta?’ ‘Of the war that is going to come. So many people are going to die. And almost all of them are going to Hell.’” (William Thomas Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima, p. 94)
Proverbs 15:21- “Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course.”
Pope Gregory XVI: “But later even more care was required when the Lutherans and Calvinists dared to oppose the changeless doctrine of the faith with an almost incredible variety of errors. They left no means untried to deceive the faithful with perverse explanations of the sacred books…” (Inter Paecipuas #4, May 8, 1844)
Pope St. Gregory the Great (595): “As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.”
Pope Pius X, Communium rerum (#18), April 21, 1909, concerning 11th century England: “Then indeed was it necessary to fight for the altar and the home, for the sanctity of public law, for liberty, civilization, sound doctrine, of all of which the Church alone was the teacher and the defender among the nations…”
St. Louis De Montfort: “… the greatest saints, the souls richest in graces and virtues, shall be the most assiduous in praying to our Blessed Lady, and in having her always present as their perfect model for imitation and their powerful aid for help.” (True Devotion to Mary #46)
“And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them, committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way in which their fathers had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary.” (Judges 2:16-17)
St. Basil, Letter 257, 4th century: “Remember that it is not the multitude who are being saved, but the elect of God. Be not then affrighted at the great multitude of the people who are carried here and there by winds like the waters of the sea.”
Pope Leo XIII: “The Church in respect of its unity belongs to the category of things indivisible by nature, though heretics try to divide it into many parts.” (Satis Cognitum #4, June 29, 1896)
“Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly insulted by ungrateful men. Make reparations for their crimes and console your God.” (The Angel to the three children of Fatima)
Pope Eugene IV: “The Holy Roman Church, founded by the voice of our Lord and Savior, firmly believes, professes, and preaches one true God, omnipotent, unchangeable, and eternal, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost… These three persons are one God, and not three gods, because of the three there is one substance, one essence, one nature, one divinity, one immensity, one eternity… It [the Holy Roman Church] condemns, rejects and anathematizes all who think opposed and contrary things, and declares them to be aliens from the Body of Christ, which is the Church.” (Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra)
[The Appearance of the Angel to the Fatima Children – 1916]: “Then, rising up, the Angel took the Chalice and the Host, and kneeling on the flat rock, held the white disk before him, saying: ‘Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly insulted by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.’” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 42.)
Pope Gregory XVI: “We are thankful for the success of apostolic missions in America, the Indies, and other faithless lands… They fearlessly fight the Lord’s battles against heresy and unbelief by private and public speech and writings… They search out those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death to summon them to the light and life of the Catholic religion.” (Probe Nostis #6, Sept. 18, 1840)
St. Alphonsus: “David calls the happiness of this present life a dream of one awakening: ‘As the dream of them that awake’ (Ps. 72:20)… The goods of this world appear great, but in fact are nothing; like sleep, they last but a little while, and then all vanishes.”
Pope St. Leo IX: “The holy Church built upon a rock, that is Christ, and upon Peter or Cephas, the son of John who first was called Simon, because by the gates of Hell, that is, by the disputations of heretics which lead the vain to destruction, it would never be overcome.” (In terra pax hominibus, Sept. 2, 1053, Denz. 351)
St. Louis De Montfort: “All the true children of God, the predestinate, have God for their Father and Mary for their Mother. He who has not Mary for his Mother has not God for his Father. This is the reason why the reprobate, such as heretics, schismatics and others, who hate our Blessed Lady or regard her with contempt and indifference, have not God for their Father, however much they boast of it, simply because they have not Mary for their Mother.” (True Devotion to Mary #30)
Pope Pius IX: “If anyone shall have said that the one true God, our Creator and Lord, cannot be known with certitude by those things which have been made, by the natural light of human reason: let him be anathema.” (First Vatican Council, Against Atheism, Session 3, On Revelation, Can. 1)
Fr. De Smet: “New priests are to be added to the Potawatomi Mission, and my Superior, Father Verhaegen gives me hope that I will be sent. How happy I would be could I spend myself for the salvation of so many souls, who are lost because they have never known truth!” (Jan. 26, 1838 - Fr. De Smet was a great missionary to the American Indians)
Pope Eugene IV: “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.” (Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439)
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” (Galatians 6:7-8)
Pope St. Leo the Great: “For there are three who give testimony – Spirit and water and blood. And the three are one. (1 Jn. 5:4-8) In other words, the Spirit of Sanctification and the Blood of Redemption and the water of Baptism. These three are one and remain indivisible. None of them is separable from its link with the others.” (Dogmatic letter to Flavian, Council of Chalcedon, 451)
Pope St. Leo the Great: “And thus is perfectly fulfilled that assurance of the Truth, by which we learn that ‘narrow and steep is the way that leads to life’; and whilst the breadth of the way that leads to death is crowded with a large company, the steps are few of those that tread the path of safety. And wherefore is the left road more thronged than the right, save that the multitude is prone to worldly joys and carnal goods? And although that which it desires is short-lived and uncertain, yet men endure toil more willingly for the lust of pleasure than for love of virtue. Thus while those who crave things visible are unnumbered, those who prefer the eternal to the temporal are hardly to be found.” (Sermon 49, 5th century)
Fr. De Smet: “I have often remarked that many of the children seem to await baptism before winging their flight to heaven, for they die almost immediately after receiving the Sacrament.” (Dec. 18, 1839 - Fr. De Smet was the Apostle of the Rocky Mountains, the great missionary to the American Indians)
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