Daily Virtue Quote – St. John Climacus
"Join humility to temperance, for the one is useless without the other." Source: St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Cyril of Jerusalem
"The seeming bread is not bread, though sensible to taste, but the Body of Christ; and that the seeming wine is not wine, though the taste will have it so, but the Blood of Christ." Source: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Hildegard of Bingen
God to St. Hildegard in a vision: “You should give your alms to the poor as I mete out My grace to you. But let not those who receive alms take them vainly or avariciously. What does this mean? There are many who love laziness and do not want to labor with their bodies to [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Alphonsus Liguori
"Oh, could I but always dwell near Thee, as did Thy faithful servant Mary Diaz, who lived in the time of St. Teresa, and had permission from the Bishop of Avila to inhabit the tribune of a church, where she remained almost always in the Presence of the Most Blessed -Sacrament, which she called her [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Josemaria Escriva
"You are worried and sad because your Communions are cold and barren. Tell me, when you approach the Sacrament, do you seek yourself or do you seek Jesus? If you seek yourself, there is reason indeed to be sad. But if you seek Christ - as you ought - could you want a surer sign [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen
"The humble man concentrates on his own errors, and not upon those of others; he sees nothing in his neighbor but what is good and virtuous. He does not carry his own faults on his back, but in front of him. The neighbor’s defects he carries in a sack on his back, so he will [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – St. Peter Julian Eymard
"The conclusion of all this is that you be ready to die rather than commit a mortal sin, and ready to die, also, rather than commit a venial sin with deliberation. Rather endure all things, rather death itself than offend God! It would be better to let the whole world go to ruin rather than [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – St. Thomas Aquinas
"A distinction must be made among sinners: some are secret; others are notorious… Therefore Holy Communion ought not to be given to open sinners when they ask for it... But if they be not open sinners, but occult, the Holy Communion should not be denied them if they ask for it. For since every Christian, [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"Communion always and inseparably has both a vertical and a horizontal sense: it is communion with God and communion with our brothers and sisters. Both dimensions mysteriously converge in the gift of the Eucharist." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope St. John Paul II
"Purity is a requirement of love. It is the dimension of the inner truth of love in man’s 'heart.'" Source: Pope St. John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them, Pauline Books and Media, 2006.