YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE BEFORE GOD

“See that there are no profane or immodest images in your house, not in walls, books, paintings or anything else that may represent a temptation to you or scandalize others”. 

 Saint Charles Borromeo

GREAT IMPIETY TO TOLERATE INJURIES AND OFFENSES AGAINST GOD

"It will always be praiseworthy if a man patiently endures injuries and mortifications of daily life and does not react like a beast to them. On the contrary, it will be of the utmost impiety to patiently tolerate injuries and offenses against God."

 Saint John Chrysostom (Antioch, 347 - Comana Pontica, September 14, 407). 

NOBODY HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THE GOSPEL

Galatians 1, 6: 

 I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.7. Which is not another: only there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. 9. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. 10. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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 

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.

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

 

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.”