Posts Tagged ‘Saint quotes’

Saint Peter Chrysologus

Posted 13 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

He (Christ) really made his body a living sacrifice, because, though slain, he continues to live. In such a victim death receives its ransom, but the victim remains alive. Death itself suffers the punishment. This is why death for the martyrs i…

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Saint Andrew Avellino

Posted 12 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

One cannot separate the most Holy Eucharist from the Passion of Jesus.

 – Saint Andrew AvellinoMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Posted 09 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

– Saint Alphonsus LiguoriMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Saint Teresa of Avila

Posted 08 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Whenever we think of Christ we should recall the love that led him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of his love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to ke…

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Pope Saint Gregory the Great

Posted 07 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Whenever some act of wondrous power must be performed, Michael is sent, so that his action and his name may make it clear that no one can do what God does by his superior power. 

– Pope Saint Gregory the GreatMystic Monk Coffee – Your pu…

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Saint Josemaria Escriva

Posted 06 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

– Saint Josemaria EscrivaMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Saint Dominic Savio

Posted 05 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him. 

– Saint Dominic SavioMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of …

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Saint John Vianney

Posted 04 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Prayer is to our soul what rain is to the soil. Fertilize the soil ever so richly, it will remain barren unless fed by frequent rains.

– Saint John VianneyMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Posted 03 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Where there is Christ Jesus, there is the Catholic Church. 

– Saint Ignatius of AntiochMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Saint James the Lesser the Apostle

Posted 02 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. 

– Saint James the Lesser the ApostleMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Saint Athanasius the Great

Posted 01 May 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Out of his loving-kindness for us he came to us, and we see this in the way he revealed himself openly to us. Taking pity on mankind’s weakness, and moved by our corruption, he could not stand aside and see death have the mastery over us. He did…

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Saint Richard Pampuri

Posted 30 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Pray that neither self indulgence nor pride, nor any other evil passion, prevent me from seeing in my patients Jesus who suffers, and from healing and comforting Him. 

–Saint Richard Pampuri in a letter to his sister, a missionary n…

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Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo

Posted 29 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

When I am in Heaven, where everything is possible, I will cling to the mantle of the Mother of God and I will not turn my eyes from you. But do not forget what this poor old man has said to you. 

– Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo from h…

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Saint Catherine of Siena

Posted 28 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God. 

– Saint Catherine of Siena Mystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort

Posted 27 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

There are three kinds of love: emotional love, rational love, and the supernatural love of faith. In other words, the love that resides in the lower part of man, in his body; the love in the higher part, his reason; and the love in the highest …

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Blessed Emilian Kowcz

Posted 26 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

I understand that you are trying to get me released. But I beg you not to do this. Yesterday they killed fifty people. If I am not here, who will help them to get through these sufferings? They would go on their way to eternity with all their s…

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Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

Posted 25 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success, but on Jesus alone.

– Saint Frances Xavier CabriniMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Pope Saint Leo the Great

Posted 24 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

For all, regenerated in Christ, as made kings by the sign of the cross. They are consecrated priests by the oil of the Holy Spirit, so that beyond the special service of our ministry as priests, all spiritual and mature Christians know that the…

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Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen

Posted 23 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain. 

– Saint Fidelis of SigmaringenMystic Monk Coffee – Your purchase helps support the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming!

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Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Posted 22 Apr 2012 — by Steve Smith
Category Catholicism

What folly it would be for travellers to think only of acquiring dignities and possessions in the countries through which they had to pass, and then to reduce themselves to the necessity of living miserably in their native lands, where they mus…

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