Today’s One-Liner (#335)
But Joan heard in the whole long story of the Passion and Death of the Lord only two things: He knew that He would not be able to save all, yet He undertook the task,…
Category: Saints
Up to Her
She, Joan, is the chosen one, for she feels herself responsible, does this little girl in the Lorraine village, for the fate and the sins of the whole people. While nobody else does, while all…
Today’s One-Liner (#334)
[Augustine] is led from confession of sin to confession of faith and finally to confession of God’s glory. –R. S. Pine-Coffin, translator in Saint Augustine, Confessions. 16
Saint Bernadette
To the end she was what she had been at the beginning, Bernadette, the poor child of Lourdes, doing always with her might what her hand found to do, little enough though that was. And…
Today’s One-Liner (#333)
“Oh, why can’t they leave me in peace!” –Saint Bernadette Soubirous, quoted in R. H. J. Steuart, S.J., in Saints Are Not Sad: Studies in Sanctity from St. Paul to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, edited by F….
The Little Way
“Her “Little Way”, just because it meant the unremitting and minute implementing of this surrender in each and all of the little things that fill up the immensely greater portion of our lives, was in…
Today’s One-Liner (#331)
The lives of the saints are offered to us for our study in order that we may see therein at their finest and best the virtues, qualities, and motives that made them what they were….
Today’s One-Liner (#329)
The calendar of the saints tells us that the more fervently and perfectly men and women imitate Christ, the more differentiated they become. –Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and…
Reading: Woes and Wonders
Ah! how many lights have I not drawn from the works of our holy Father, St. John of the Cross! At the ages of seventeen and eighteen I had no other spiritual nourishment; later on,…
Learn from the Saints
Look at the example given by saints in every walk of life. There is nothing that they have not done in order to love God and be his devoted followers. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to…