"Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life. All of her pastoral activity should be caught up in the tenderness she makes present to believers; nothing in her preaching and in her witness to the world can be lacking in mercy." Source: Pope Francis, Misericordiae Vultus: BULL OF INDICTION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY JUBILEE [...]
"By means of the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ our Lord willed to give the faithful a striking manifestation of our union among ourselves and with our divine Head, wonderful as it is and beyond all praise." Source: Pope Pius XII, MYSTICI CORPORIS CHRISTI, 6/29/1943. ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON THE MISTICAL BODY OF CHRIST [...]
“She (Blessed Virgin Mary) said, 'The soul’s true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing, because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble, He always opposes the proud.'" -St. Faustina relaying the words of the Blessed [...]
"[B]usiness management cannot concern itself only with the interests of the proprietors but must also assume responsibility for all the other stakeholders who contribute to the life of the business…" Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
"We must therefore consider the Eucharist as: thanksgiving and praise to the Father; the sacrificial memorial of Christ and his Body; the presence of Christ by the power of his word and of his Spirit." Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church #1358
"Mary of Nazareth, icon of the nascent Church, is the model for each of us, called to receive the gift that Jesus makes of himself in the Eucharist." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
"Every expenditure of human strength which makes what is a means an end, which isolates living from the goal of living, is a busy idleness, a sad and mournful unreality." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"The Mass has three important parts: the Offertory, the Consecration, and the Communion. In the order of human love, these correspond to engagement, the marriage ceremony, and the consummation of the marriage." Source: Ven. Fulton Sheen, These are the Sacraments
"Two things particularly further improvement – to withdraw oneself forcibly from those vices to which nature is viciously inclined, and to work fervently for those graces which are most needed." Source: Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Dover Thrift Editions, 1940.
"His soul was truly separated from His body, as stated above. And therefore had this sacrament been celebrated during those three days when He was dead, the soul of Christ would not have been there, neither by the power of the sacrament, nor from real concomitance. But since 'Christ rising from the dead dieth now [...]