Virtue Quote: Ven. Fulton Sheen
"Loving and serving are inseparable. Such service, too, is self-denying and ego-effacing." Ven. Fulton Sheen
Eucharist Quote: Pope St. John Paul II
"The seeds of disunity, which daily experience shows to be so deeply rooted in humanity as a result of sin, are countered by the unifying power of the body of Christ." -Pope St. John Paul II
Virtue Quote: St. Teresa of Avila
"The truly humble person will have a genuine desire to be thought little of, and persecuted, and condemned unjustly, even in serious matters. For, if she desires to imitate the Lord, how can she do so better than this? And no bodily strength is necessary here, nor the aid of anyone save God." -St. Teresa [...]
Eucharist Quote: St. Peter Julian Eymard
" You must perform your actions under the eye of Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament that you may do them courageously, holily, and with pleasure." -St. Peter Julian Eymard
Virtue Quote: St. Peter Julian Eymard
"When there is question of working on one's self, a man experiences difficulty, he soon finds that he always does enough. But he will greatly devote himself for others, will sacrifice himself for their advancement, though he may be lax when there is question of self. In the same measure as he rushes forth to [...]
Eucharist Quote: Catechism of the Catholic Church
"The inexhaustible richness of this sacrament is expressed in the different names we give it. Each name evokes certain aspects of it. It is called: The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church." -Catechism of the Catholic Church
Virtue Quote: St. Faustina
"A soul does not benefit as it should from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor it is willing, to prove with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery." [...]
Eucharist Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"The Eucharist reveals the loving plan that guides all of salvation history." -Pope Benedict XVI
Virtue Quote: Pope Benedict XVI
"The increasing prominence of a relativistic understanding of that nature presents serious problems for education, especially moral education, jeopardizing its universal extension. Yielding to this kind of relativism makes everyone poorer and has a negative impact on the effectiveness of aid to the most needy populations, who lack not only economic and technical means, but [...]
Eucharist Quote: St. Thomas Aquinas
"This sacrament has a threefold significance. one with regard to the past, inasmuch as it is commemorative of our Lord's Passion, which was a true sacrifice, as stated above (Q[48], A[3]), and in this respect it is called a 'Sacrifice.' With regard to the present it has another meaning, namely, that of Ecclesiastical unity, in [...]