"Behold the total gift, behold renunciation. The vow of poverty extends to our whole being. To pause on exterior things, is not to comprehend the mind. Poverty consecrates the whole religious. If we do not give ourselves entirely, we enter not into the virtue of poverty. It is easy to say: 'My God, I give [...]
"It is true, that in every place God graciously hears the petitions of those who pray to Him, having promised to do so: 'Ask, and you shall receive;' yet the disciple tells us that Jesus dispenses His graces in greater abundance to those who visit Him in the Most Holy Sacrament." Source: St. Alphonsus [...]
"By celebrating the Last Supper with his apostles in the course of the Passover meal, Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its definitive meaning. Jesus' passing over to his father by his death and Resurrection, the new Passover, is anticipated in the Supper and celebrated in the Eucharist, which fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the [...]
"If you long earnestly, anxiously, and persistently after what you do not possess, it is all very well to say that you do not wish to get it unfairly, but you are all the time guilty of avarice." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002. [...]
"Hunger, thirst, loss of worldly position, nakedness, cold, heat, insults, abuse, slander – all these things I [God] allow people to say and do to you. Not that I am the source of the malice and ill will of those who do these evil and harmful things; I only grant them their existence and time. [...]
"We know that the faithful are surrounded by a culture that tends to eliminate the sense of sin and to promote a superficial approach that overlooks the need to be in a state of grace in order to approach sacramental communion worthily." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007 [...]
"In Baptism water is used for the purpose of ablution: but in this sacrament [Eucharist] it is used by way of refreshment, according to Ps. 22:3: 'He hath brought me up on the water of refreshment.'" Source: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
"The world’s wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequities are on the increase… In poorer areas, some groups enjoy a sort of 'superdevelopment' of a wasteful and consumerist kind which forms an unacceptable contrast with the ongoing situations of dehumanizing deprivation. 'The scandal of glaring inequities' continues." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN [...]
"Now, we must take Our Lord where He shows Himself to us, and that is in the Blessed Sacrament. He continues the Gospel under our eyes. The Eucharist ought to be our Gospel. It is a living Gospel. Why would you deprive yourselves of the sight of His Person in order to read His word, [...]
"All sin is a lie. For no sin is committed save by that desire or will by which we desire that it be well with us, and shrink from it being ill with us. That, therefore, is a lie which we do in order that it may be well with us, but which makes us [...]