SAINT BERNARD DIXIT

 

FLEE FROM THEM

“Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times. Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked. Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness, traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God: Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.”

Sain Paul 11 Tim 3: 1-5

AN EXCELLENT ADVICE FROM SAINT JOHN MARY VIANNEY, VERY SUITABLE FOR THE END OF THE YEAR

“Most Christians do nothing but work to satisfy this corpse [he always called the body “corpse”] that will soon fall under the ground, with no regard for the poor soul, who is destined to be happy or unhappy for eternity. Their lack of spirit and good sense makes the skin leap. See, my children, we must reflect that we have a soul to save, and an eternity that awaits us. The world, its riches, pleasures, and honours will pass away, Heaven and Hell will never pass. Let us take care, then.”

Saint John Mary Vianney

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH’S VISIONS AND REVELATIONS

“I saw within a city, a meeting of clergy, laymen and women, who were sitting together, eating and making frivolous jokes, and above them a dark cloud which descended in a plain submerged in darkness. Amid this fog, I saw Satan sitting and around him, many companions as people were in the meeting which was going on underneath. All these evil spirits were continually moving and busy trying to push the people at this meeting to do evil. They whispered to them to their ears and acted on them in all possible ways. These people were in a very dangerous state of sensual excitement and in provocative conversations. Churchmen were those whose principle were: “You have to live and let live. In our time we should not be apart or be a misanthrope (a person who hates or distrusts humankind): we must rejoice with those who rejoice.”

Blessed Catherine Emmerich, AA II. 488.

CHESTERTON, ALWAYS GREAT

 

ACTUS CONTRITIONIS

O My God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee and I detest all my sins because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.

HOW WE SHOULD ACT EVERY DAY

"May all of our actions, words or thoughts be like those of a person who will leave this earth today and appear before the Judgment of God."

Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

BY THE HAND OF MARY

“With Mary everything is easy. I place all my confidence in her, despite the snarls of the world and thunders of hell. I say with St. Bernard: ‘In her I have placed unbounded confidence; she is the whole reason for my hope. Have these words explained to you for I would not have dared to propose them on my own authority. It is through Mary that I seek and that I will find Jesus, that I will crush the head of the serpent and overcome all my enemies and myself, to the greater glory of God.”

Saint Louis Marie de Montfort

AM I NOT HERE WHO AM YOUR MOTHER?

 

“AM I NOT HERE WHO AM YOUR MOTHER?  ARE YOU NOT UNDER MY SHADOW AND PROTECTION? AM I NOT THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUR JOY?  ARE YOU NOT IN THE FOLD OF MY MANTLE, IN THE CRADLE OF MY ARMS? DO NOT GRIEVE NOR BE DISTURBED BY ANYTHING. DO NOT BE AFFLICTED BY THE ILLNESS OF YOUR UNCLE, WHO WILL NOT DIE NOW OF IT, BE ASSURED THAT HE IS NOW CURED.”  

OUR LADY HAD ALREADY WARNED US ABOUT IT

 

All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism, and vice of all kinds.

May those in charge of religious communities be on their guard against the people they must receive, for the devil will resort to all his evil tricks to introduce sinners into religious orders, for disorder and the love of carnal pleasures will be spread all over the earth.

Our Lady of La Salette

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPCIÓN (8-XII)

 

GOD'S WORD

 

THE WISDOM OF CHESTERTON

 

HOMELAND OF THE JUST

"In eternity alone, the country of the just, can you find rest, because there alone there is no combat; but do not imagine, however, that the gates of eternity shall be opened for you, unless you first show the wounds you bear; those gates are only opened for those who gloriously fought here the battles of the Lord, and were, like the Lord, crucified.”

Donoso Cortés, Essay on Catholicism, liberalism and socialism