+ “Lord,” St. Peter answered, “we have fished all night and have caught nothing.” Perhaps if St. Peter had caught some little fish, Jesus would not have performed the miracle, but he had nothing, so Jesus soon filled his net in such a way as almost to break it. This...
+ But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house” (Mark 2:10-11). For the Lord does the same with our spiritual sicknesses. He not...
+ “Our Lord endured unjustly to teach us how to endure. When He was beaten, He endured patiently, when He was insulted, He did not insult back. When He suffered, He did not threaten but rather offered His back to the scourges and His cheeks to those who smite. He...
+ “Our Lord endured unjustly to teach us how to endure. When He was beaten, He endured patiently, when He was insulted, He did not insult back. When He suffered, He did not threaten but rather offered His back to the scourges and His cheeks to those who smite. He...
+ A Blessed Feast of the Cross “To take up one’s cross means to accept and bear unmurmuring everything unpleasant, painful, sad, difficult and oppressive that may happen to us in our life. And therefore, whether anyone offends you, or laughs at you, or causes you weariness, sorrow or annoyance;...
+ “The saints seek for themselves this sign of complete likeness to God: to be perfect in the love of their neighbor. It is said that St. Anthony never resolved within himself to do anything that would benefit himself more than his neighbors, because he possessed the hope that his...
+ Blessed Feast of St. Verena “Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys” (Lk. 12:33). God does not want you to lose your wealth, but He has...
+ But we too, dearly beloved, can achieve the crowns of martyrdom even if we endure nothing of this sort [of physical death] — even if we do not put up with chains, beating, prison, other bodily punishment, persecution at the hand of our fellow human beings for righteousness’ sake....
+ “‘But who to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!’ (Gospel Reading, Mk. 13:17). One must not believe that the Lord was drawing our attention to the burden of pregnant women when He said, ‘Woe to those who are with child.’ Instead,...
+ The Virgin Mother diligently held in her heart everything that she had come to know about the Lord, whether from the Lord’s sayings or from His deeds, and she assiduously committed them all to memory so that, when the time should come for preaching about the Lord or for...
