Something for Sunday Morning
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to
believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
Religion
Something for Sunday Morning
“Inordinate fear is included in every sin; the miser fears the loss of money,
the intemperate man the loss of pleasure.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
Something for Sunday Morning
"Allowing ourselves to be helped is a wonderful way of learning humility."
Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God
Something for Sunday Morning
"Gloominess does great harm to us and to those around us. It is a harmful plant
that we must uproot as soon as it appears."
Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God
Something for Sunday Morning
. . . "'he went about doing good' . . . This is an appropriate summary of
Christ's life on this earth. This should be the description of the life of every
baptized person since our lives are subject to the influence of the Holy Spirit.
This ought to be so
Something for the Epiphany
"Let us remain in adoration; and to Him, who, in order to save us, humbled
Himself to such a degree of poverty as to receive our body, let us offer not
only incense, gold and myrrh (the first as God, the second as king, and the
third as one
Something for Sunday Morning
"Sad looks spring from egoism, from thinking about oneself to the exclusion of
others, from laziness in one's work, from lack of mortification, from the search
for small self-indulgences, from carelessness in one's relationship with God."
Francis Fernandez
Something for Sunday Morning
"God also asks us to live without ostentation, without wanting to be heroes. He
wants us to lead simple, ordinary lives, trying to do good to everyone and
carrying out our duties honestly."
Francis Fernandez
Something for Sunday Morning
"When Christmas arrives, Our Lord should find us with everything in order and
our soul fit to receive Him, just as He ought to find us in our final encounter
with Him. We have to make what adjustment is required to correct the course of
our lives and turn
Something for Sunday Morning
"Every sin, if persisted in, will become heinous."
Samuel Johnson