Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"The demands of love do not contradict those of reason." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"The Eucharist inexhaustibly strengthens the indissoluble unity and love of every Christian marriage. By the power of the sacrament, the marriage bond is intrinsically linked to the eucharistic unity of Christ the Bridegroom and his Bride, the Church (cf. Eph 5:31-32)." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007 [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"Charity does not exclude knowledge, but rather requires, promotes, and animates it from within." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"The Church teaches that priestly ordination is the indispensable condition for the valid celebration of the Eucharist." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"Openness to life is at the centre of true development. When a society moves towards the denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man's true good. If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of a new life is lost, then other forms [...]
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"The relationship between the Eucharist and the sacrament of Reconciliation reminds us that sin is never a purely individual affair; it always damages the ecclesial communion that we have entered through Baptism." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"It is therefore necessary to cultivate a public conscience that considers food and access to water as universal rights of all human beings, without distinction or discrimination." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity in Truth), 6/29/2009
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"On the night before he died, Jesus instituted the Eucharist and at the same time established the priesthood of the New Covenant." Source: Pope Benedict XVI, SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS (Sacrament of Charity), 2/22/2007
Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"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 [...]
Daily Virtue Quote – Pope Benedict XVI
"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 [...]