Words of Encouragement

by CE Editor August 20, 2012

“The body is a help to the soul that loves God, even when it is ill, even when it is dead, and all the more when it is raised again from the dead: for illness is aid to penitence; death…

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by CE Editor August 16, 2012

“The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise,…

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by CE Editor August 13, 2012

“You cannot evade the issue of God, whether you talk about pigs or the binomial theory, you are still talking about Him. Now if Christianity be. . . a fragment of metaphysical nonsense invented by a few people, then, of…

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by CE Editor August 7, 2012

God of compassion, when our hearts are filled with sorrow, when our minds are wondering with questions, how often you come to us with an assurance that we are in your presence! It may not give us the answers we…

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by CE Editor August 2, 2012

If spiritual starvation is to be relieved, it must be largely the work of the laity, who are in daily contact with starvation’s victims. We must come to an understanding of the great dogmas, so that we know them in…

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by CE Editor July 30, 2012

Politics must be a striving for justice, and hence it has to establish the fundamental preconditions for peace. Naturally a politician will seek success, as this is what opens up for him the possibility of effective political action. Yet success…

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by CE Editor July 26, 2012

The triumph of the Catholic Church, from its beginnings with the Apostles filing out from the Holy Land, to its rising to be monarch over kings, to its continued survival and worldwide development against every conceivable persecution, is the most…

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by CE Editor July 23, 2012

In the morning, when you awake, think at once of God and quickly make the Sign of the Cross, saying to Him: “My God, I give you my heart, and since You are so good as to give me another…

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by CE Editor July 19, 2012

“Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a…

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by CE Editor July 16, 2012

“I have the immense joy of being a man, a member of a race in which God himself became incarnate…And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they…

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