What would it be like if everything were favorable to us, and what right have poor people like us to expect that we will always be successful? (III:206)
“Sometimes a work fails, not because a similar institution has been set up beside it and outdone it, but it has brought about its own ruin by making use of means contrary to the spirit of Christ in order to maintain itself in the first place.” – St....
The Church has enough solitaries… her great need is evangelical men who work to purge, enlighten, and unite the Church to her Divine Spouse (III:204).
“You must look forward. At all events this life is worth possessing, if it were only because while we have it we are candidates for a better one.” (CW 1:47) – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – Lord, help me to put away all the burdens of the past and...