Spirituality and Community Life

Jesus Christ was pierced in his heart from where blood and water flowed out and were formed the seven sacraments of...

“Four main things: Silence, patience, prayer and hope. Because the merit is in one´s suffering with regard to what he...

“Before he crows, the cock first beats his wings; I, before preaching, should move and beat the wings of study and...

“When I was ten years old, I was allowed to make my First Communion. Words cannot tell what I felt on that day when I...

“My heart is broken by pain when I see in this diocese of Vic so many priests without having to do anything and so...

“It is not enough or sufficient to fulfil; like good Christians that we assist at Mass and receive communion to make...

“Glory to the Father, because he is my creator. Glory to the Son because he is my Redeemer. Glory to the Holy Spirit...

“I, Anthony Claret, was last of all. And, indeed, they were all better educated and more virtuous than I so that I...

“The soul that with meditation does not rise up with the wings of faith to the creator of these things, who is more...

“I owe God endless thanks for providing me such good companions. The conduct of all of them was above reproach. They...

“Christ our Lord is a good model of this way of working heroically: he went by foot tirelessly to all the villages of...

“The one who has zeal, desires and tries by all means possible that God be known, loved and served in this life and in...

“His only concern is how he can best follow Jesus Christ and imitate Him in working, suffering, and striving...

“To conserve and increase this love or charity, you have to see Jesus Christ himself in each one of our neighbours in...

“My God, how good and wonderful you have been to me! You surely used strange means to uproot me from the world and an...

“My God, how good you are! How rich in mercy you have been to me! If you had given others the graces you have given...

“In these last times it seems God wants the laity to have an important role in the salvation of the souls” Las...

“When Jesus Christ and his doctrine are despised, life is despised in the moral and social intelligence. A nation´s...

“Jesus tells those who receive Holy Communion, `Take, drink and eat; this is my body, broken for you; take and drink;...

“But I tell you, with St. Paul, that I am not afraid of any of these things, nor do I esteem my life more than my...

“Catholic religion alone, divine in its origin, divine in its propagation, divine in its conservation, tells man: With...

“[Mary] is the channel from heaven through which all the graces we need flow to keep us away from evil and to do good....

“Tomorrow I leave for a town called Pinto for preaching and administering the sacrament of confirmation; and then I...

*43.- “Also the zeal of St. Paul has always awakened my deepest enthusiasm. He went from place to place, a chosen...

*359 “I am much encouraged in reading about what the apostles did and suffered. St. Peter in his first sermon...

*266 “As much as the enemies of religion keep awake, we are asleep; they keep the printing presses going day and...

*108 Let us do things as one who serves Christ and not man, and in this way will we do them well, in a good way and...

*246.- “I will say before meals: Lord, I eat to have strength and serve you better. Before going to bed: Lord, I do...

*236.- “It is not enough to have a confessor to whom to present with sincerity our sins; We need also a teacher to...

*226.- “Jesus gave us the Blesses Virgin Mary as our Mother. He entrusted us to care for her as mother, and she will...