"The Church’s social doctrine has always maintained that justice must be applied to every phase of economic activity, because this is always concerned with man and his needs... Thus every economic decision has a moral consequence." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
"How that saintly young priest, who was found worthy of martyrdom, wept a the foot of the altar as he thought of a soul who had come to receive Christ in the state of mortal sin! Is that how you offer Him reparation?" Source: St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way: The Essential Classic of Opus [...]
"Every eucharistic celebration sacramentally accomplishes the eschatological gathering of the People of God. For us, the eucharistic banquet is a real foretaste of the final banquet foretold by the prophets (cf. Is 25:6-9) and described in the New Testament as 'the marriage-feast of the Lamb' (Rev 19:7-9), to be celebrated in the joy of the [...]
"Ah! if in the world they knew what the religious life is, they would storm the convents, and no one would remain in it!" Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist St. Peter Julian Eymard was a priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. This religious order is "a [...]
"A sign of utter meekness is to have a heart peacefully and lovingly disposed toward someone who has been offensive, and a sure proof of a hot temper is that a man, even when he is alone, should with word and gesture continue to rage and fulminate against some absent person who has given offense." [...]
"The blood of the paschal lamb, sprinkled on doorposts to preserve the Jews from destruction, was a sign not yet of a reality, but a figure of the blood of Christ sprinkled on our souls, which would save us from evil. Because the paschal lamb was a figure of Christ, it was on the feast [...]
"The grace of purity comes only from Our Lord. Communion gives it, increases it, strengthens it, preserves and maintains it against all the assaults of hell, the world, and the flesh. You drink there the virginal Blood of the spotless Lamb. It is absolutely true that, without Communion, one cannot be chaste." Source: St. [...]
"Humility — so fondly did Our Lord embrace it, love it, make it His own that it is the only thing in which He glories and wishes us to see in Him: 'Discite a me quia humilis corde — Learn of Me that I am meek and humble of Heart!' See what pride cost Him, [...]
"The first purification to be made is from sin; the means whereby to make it, the Sacrament of Penance. Seek the best Confessor within your reach, use one of the many little books written in order to help the examination of conscience." Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, [...]
"Augustine says in his book on the Sentences of Prosper (Lanfranc, De Corp. et Sang. Dom. xiii): 'Under the species which we behold, of bread and wine, we honor invisible things, i.e. flesh and blood.'" Source: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica