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Monday, August 30, 2021

BE AT PEACE WITH YOURSELF SO THAT YOU CAN BE AT PEACE WITH OTHERS

“There are some people who live in peace with themselves, and are also at peace with others.

There are some who neither enjoy peace in their own lives, nor leave others in peace.

They are a burden to other people and even more of a burden to themselves.

There are others who not only keep themselves in peace but are always ready to guide others back to peace.

Now, all our peace in this miserable life is found in humbly enduring suffering rather than in being free from it.

He who knows best how to suffer will enjoy the greater peace.

Because he is the conqueror of himself, the master of the world, a friend of Christ, and an heir of heaven."

Thomas à Kempis

Saturday, August 28, 2021

ON BLASPHEMERS

Saint Bernardino of Siena calls blasphemers infernal men, incarnate demons, citizens of Hell, companions of demons, evil souls and traitors; and he says that just as through language one comes to know the country or nation of which someone speaks, so also those destined for Hell are known for their blasphemies, and they start practicing the blasphemies they will say eternally in Hell.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE BASICALLY IMMUTABLE AND MUST BE FULFILLED ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE

Monday, August 23, 2021

ON INDECENT FASHION

Padre Pio of Pietrelcina speaks of indecent fashion:

“I desire that all of you, my spiritual children, fight by your good example and without any human respect, a holy battle against indecent fashion. God will be with you and you He will save! The woman that seeks vanity in her dress can never belong to Christ, and these same lose every adornment of the soul the very moment these idols enter into their hearts. Being watchful of every vanity in their hearts, because the Lord permits the fall of these souls for such vanity.”

Saturday, August 21, 2021

TRUE LOVE

True love grows with difficulties; the false one goes out. From experience we know that when we endure difficult trials for someone we love, love does not collapse, but grows. “Many waters (that is many tribulations) cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it” (Cant. 8:7). And so, the saints, who endure trials for God, strengthen their love with it; it is like an artist, who becomes more fond of the work that costs him the most”.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

CHESTERTON'S WISDOM

Monday, August 16, 2021

THE SUPERNATURAL CRITERION OF SUCCESS

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Monday, August 30, 2021

BE AT PEACE WITH YOURSELF SO THAT YOU CAN BE AT PEACE WITH OTHERS