31 Jul 2026, 17:36 UTC172 views8 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
O glorious Patriarch St Ignatius, we humbly beseech thee to obtain for us from Almighty God, above all things else, deliverance from sin, which is the greatest of evils, and next, from those scourges wherewith the Lord chastises the sins of His people. May thine example, O loyal knight of Our Lady and standard-bearer of the King of Kings, enkindle in our hearts an effectual desire to employ ourselves continually in l…
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29 Jul 2026, 23:09 UTC98 views5 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Nothing has been more fatal to men, and to great men, than the letting themselves go to the forbidden love of women; of all the vices it is most bewitching and harder to be mastered if it be not crushed in the very end, to a vice so universal and so followed by young men, that few there are that will give themselves time to consider the danger of it, being led away by ill example, as well as other suggestions and all…
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25 Jul 2026, 14:42 UTC151 views11 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Today is my onomastico.
O Glorious Apostle, Saint James, who by reason of your fervent and generous heart was chosen by Jesus to be a witness of His glory on Mount Tabor, and of His agony in Gethsemane; you, whose very name is a symbol of warfare and victory: obtain for us strength and consolation in the unending warfare of this life, that, having constantly and generously followed Jesus, we may be victors in the st…
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8 Jul 2026, 13:22 UTC203 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 REMEMBER, O Lady of the Precious Blood, the sorrowful Sheddings of the Blood of thy Jesus and the most bitter tears thou didst mingle with His Redeeming Blood. In the name of the Blood of the Victim of Reparation and of thy holy tears; in the name of the seven swords which pierced thy heart, by which thou didst become the Mediatrix of all graces for the human race and the Queen of Martyrs, have pity on my soul and on…
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12 Jun 2026, 14:40 UTC322 views8 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Cor, arca legem cóntinens
Non servitútis véteris,
Sed grátiæ, sed véniæ,
Sed et misericórdiæ.
Quis non amántem rédamet?
Quis non redémptus díligat,
Et Corde in isto séligat
Ætérna tabernácula?
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9 Jun 2026, 09:09 UTC303 views6 reactionsread 6 August 2026 we are grateful even towards animals: if a little dog shows us any sign of affection, it seems to constrain us to love it. How, then, can we be so ungrateful towards God? It seems as if the benefits of God towards men change their nature, and become ill-usage; for, instead of gratitude and love, they obtain nothing but offences and injuries. Do Thou, O Lord, enlighten these ungrateful ones, to know the love that Thou…
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5 Jun 2026, 10:07 UTC304 views6 reactionsread 6 August 2026 My dearest Redeemer, I will say to Thee, with St. Augustine, Thou dost command me to love Thee, and dost threaten me with Hell if I do not love Thee; but what more dreadful Hell, what greater misfortune, can happen to me than to be deprived of Thy love! If, therefore, Thou desirest to frighten me, Thou shouldst threaten me only that I should live without loving Thee; for this threat alone will frighten me more than a…
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5 Jun 2026, 09:57 UTC220 viewsread 6 August 2026 What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, . . . and love Him? (Deut. x. 12)
4 Jun 2026, 17:07 UTC222 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Again, this love has induced Him even to become the food of our souls, so as to unite Himself to us, and to make His heart and ours as one: He that eateth My Flesh and drinketh My Blood, abideth in Me and I in him. (John, vi. 57). O wonder! O excess of Divine love! It was said by a servant of God, if anything could shake my faith in the Eucharist, it would not be the doubt as to how the bread could become flesh, or h…
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3 Jun 2026, 19:53 UTC224 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Some are attracted to love others by their beauty, others by their innocence, others by living with them, others by devotion. But if there were a person in whom all these and other virtues were united, who could help loving him? If we heard that there was in a distant country a foreign prince who was handsome, humble, courteous, devout, full of charity, affable to all, who rendered good to those who did him evil; the…
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3 Jun 2026, 09:02 UTC304 views4 reactionsread 6 August 2026 The devotion of all devotions is love for Jesus Christ, and frequent meditation on the love which this amiable Redeemer has borne and still bears to us. A devout author laments, and most justly, the sight of so many persons who pay much attention to the practice of various devotions, but neglect this; and of many preachers and confessors, who say a great many things, but speak little of love for Jesus Christ… This ne…
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23 May 2026, 09:10 UTC230 views4 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Grant that through you we may receive Him who was given to us through you. Let your spotless purity excuse before His eyes the faults of our malice. May your humility, so pleasing to God, obtain pardon for our pride. May your immense charity cover the multitude of our sins, and may your glorious fruitfulness make our good works fruitful.
(St. Bernard)
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