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I am a sinner.

I ask Pope Francis point-blank: “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?” He stares at me in silence. I ask him if I may ask him this question. He nods and replies: “I ​​do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.” 

http://americamagazine.org/pope-interview

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When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host, you understand how much Jesus loves you now.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

St. Francis de Sales

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Desperation Band - Open Your Eyes

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She is more Mother than Queen.

-Saint Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church

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If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.

- Saint Maximilian Kolbe

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Faced with today’s problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

PJPII

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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Pope John Paul II

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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

St. John of the Cross

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The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.

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“No one wants to believe in evil, really, above all, not in an evil being, an evil spirit. Everyone wants to abolish the idea. To admit the existence of evil means a responsibility, and no one wants that responsibility. That is the opening through which the evil spirit crawls, stilling all suspicions, making everything seem normal and natural. This is the ‘thought’, the unwariness of the ordinary human being which amounts to a disinclination to believe in evil. And if you do not believe in evil, how can you believe in or ever know what good is?”

(Resource – Hostage to the Devil by Father Malachi Martin, Roman Catholic Priest – Click here to purchase book

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“The Devil fears the Virgin Mary more, not only than men and angels but, in a certain sense, than God himself. It is not that the wrath, the power and the hatred of God are not infinitely greater than those of the Blessed Virgin, since Mary’s perfections are limited: it is because, in the first place, Satan, being proud, suffers infinitely more from being overcome and punished by the little, humble servant of God, her humility humiliating him more than the divine power; and secondly, because God has given Mary such great power over devils that, as they have often been obliged to admit, in spite of themselves, through the mouths of possessed persons, they are more afraid of one of her sighs of grief over some poor soul, than of the prayers of the saints, and more daunted by a single threat from her than by all their other torments”

 (Resource – Evidence of Satan in the Modern World by Monsignor Leon Cristiani, Roman Catholic Priest – Click here to read online – Click here to purchase book )

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why is prayer of the Rosarie a good thing?

Prayer of the Rosary is good for a multitude of reasons. Here are the ones that were Made by the Blessed Virgin to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan.

1. To all those who will recite my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special protection and very great graces.

2. Those who will persevere in the recitation of my Rosary shall receive some signal grace.

3. The Rosary shall be a very powerful armor against hell; it shall destroy vice, deliver from sin, and shall dispel heresy.

4. The Rosary shall make virtue and good works flourish, and shall obtain for souls the most abundant divine mercies; it shall substitute in hearts love of God for love of the world, elevate them to desire heavenly and eternal goods. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means!

35. Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary, shall not perish.

6. Those who will recite my Rosary piously, considering its Mysteries, shall not be overwhelmed by misfortune nor die a bad death. The sinner shall be converted; the just shall grow in grace and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the consolations of the Church, or without grace.

8. Those who will recite my Rosary shall find during their life and at their death the light of God, the fullness of His grace, and shall share in the merits of the blessed.

9. I will deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary.

10. The true children of my Rosary shall enjoy great glory in heaven.

11. What you ask through my Rosary, you shall obtain. 12. Those who propagate my Rosary shall obtain

through me aid in all their necessities. 13. I have obtained from my Son that all the confrères

of the Rosary shall have for their brethren in life

and death the saints of heaven. 14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are all my

beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus

Christ. 15. Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of

predestination.

from http://www.knightsofdivinemercy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/54_Day_Novena_Rosary.pdf

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Before anything else, we’re called to be Catholics. That should be the defining part of who we are. Whether we’re Indians or Germans or Irish; whether we’re Democrats or Republicans, we are Catholic first. Everything else is secondary.

Archbishop Charles Chaput (Philadelphia-designate)

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If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

Saint Faustina (via empty-and-beautiful)

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Confession is the staple between our Daily Life and our Spiritual Life.