𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤

“So strong is tradition that later generations will dream of what they have never seen.”

– G.K. Chesterton

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Dies iræ, dies illa, Solvet sæclum in favilla: Teste David cum Sibylla.

Quantus tremor est futurus, Quando judex est venturus, Cuncta stricte discussurus!

Day of wrath and doom impending! David's word with Sibyl's blending, Heaven and earth in ashes ending!

Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth, When from heaven the Judge descendeth, On whose sentence all dependeth.

“Governments come and go, Christ reigns as King forever.”

~ Pope Pius XI

“With what majesty and splendor will that woman be clothed whom God’s Son Himself chose for His Mother! No man was ever able to choose his own mother, except the One, the God-Man. He will adorn His Mother with all the riches of nature and grace, so that she might be worthy of Him; in His almighty hands is all fullness. Whatever honor and praise we offer to Mary will redound to the glory of her Son.”

~ Father Otto Hophan, O.F.M.Cap.

“Death rather than sin!“

~ Saint Dominic Savio

“In that first Holy Communion, it was my Heavenly Mother who accompanied me to the altar, for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.”

-Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Gaudete in Domino semper.

Rejoice in the Lord always.

“It is an article of faith that the Blessed Virgin Mary, by a special grace and privilege of God, on account of the merits of Jesus Christ the Redeemer of mankind, was from the first instant of her conception protected and preserved from every stain of original sin.”

~ Pope Pius IX

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

“Anxiety is freedom’s possibility; this anxiety alone is, through faith, absolutely formative, since it consumes all finite ends, discovers all their deceptions.”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“When a husband and wife are united in marriage they no longer seem like something earthly, but rather like the image of God Himself.”

~ Saint John Chrysostom

“It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. It was fitting that she, who had carried the Creator as a child at her breast, should dwell in the divine tabernacles…it was fitting that God’s Mother should possess what belongs to her Sonand that she should be honored by every creature as the Mother and the Handmaid of God.”

~ Saint John Damascene

“We pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory”.

~ Pope Pius XII

“After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.”

~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori

"Anne is the glorious tree from which bloomed a twig under Divine influence. She is the sublime heaven from whose heights the Star of the Sea neared its rising. She is the blessed barren woman, happy mother among mothers, from whose pure womb came forth the shining temple of God, the sanctuary of the Holy Ghost, the Mother of God!"

~ Saint Jerome

Flos Carmeli, vitis florigera, splendor cæli, virgo puerpera singularis. Mater mitis sed viri nescia
Carmelitis da privilegia
Stella Maris. Radix Jesse
germinans flosculum nos ad esse tecum in sæculum patiaris. Inter spinas quæ crescis lilium serva puras mentes fragilium tutelaris. Armatura fortis pugnantium furunt bella tendepræsidium
scapularis.
Per incerta prudens consilium per adversa iuge solatium largiaris. Mater dulcis Carmeli domina, plebem tuam reple lætitia qua bearis. Paradisi clavis et ianua, fac nos duci quo, Mater, gloria
coronaris. Amen.

“Beware of despairing about yourself; you are commanded to place your trust in God, and not in yourself.”

~ Saint Augustine

“Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.”

– St. John Chrysostom

Not all of us are expected to die a martyr’s death, but we are all called to the pursuit of Christian virtue. This demands strength of character though it may not match that of this innocent girl. Still, a constant, persistent and relentless effort is asked of us right up to the moment of our death. This may be conceived as a slow steady martyrdom which Christ urged upon us when he said: The kingdom of heaven is set upon and laid waste by violent forces. So let us all, with God’s grace, strive to reach the goal that the example of the virgin martyr, Saint Maria Goretti, sets before us. Through her prayers to the Redeemer may all of us, each in his own way, joyfully try to follow the inspiring example of Maria Goretti who now enjoys eternal happiness in heaven.

~ Pope Pius XII

When the Blessed Sacrament is laid upon your tongue— that moment and that act which the great angels of God look down upon with such surpassing awe–the Blood of Jesus is throbbing there in all its abounding life of glory. It sheathes in the sacramental mystery that exceeding radiance which is lighting all heaven at that moment with a magnificence of splendor which exceeds the glowing of a million suns. You do not feel the strong pulses of his immortal life. If you did, you could hardly live yourself. Sacred terror would undo your life. But in that adorable Host is the whole of the Precious Blood, the Blood of Gethsemane, Jerusalem, and Calvary, the Blood of the Passion, of the Resurrection, and of the Ascension, the Blood shed and reassumed.

[Fr. Frederick Faber- The Precious Blood: or, The Price of Our Salvation]

The world has heard enough of the so-called "rights of man." Let it hear something of the rights of God.

~ Pope Leo XIII

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