Spirituality and Community Life

“As I always went on foot, I would fall in with mule-drivers and ordinary folk, and so I had a chance to talk with...

“The Blessed Virgin Mary will be pleased, if you keep silence and are devout in church; if you offer heart your heart...

“Experience has taught me that one of the most powerful forces for good is the press, although when abused it can also...

“I believed that a certain class of sinners must be caught after the fashion of a man cooking snails. He puts them in...

“I have learned that zeal is an ardent and violent love that needs to be wisely controlled. Otherwise it might go...

“Although Father Joseph Xifre, Superior of the Missionary Sons of the Heart of Mary, has frequently spoken and written...

“To love God truly means to suffer for the beloved. To know whether it is true, we have to check it with the fire of...

“The Exercises of St. Ignatius are one of the most powerful tools I have used in the conversion of priests, which is...

“I have always wanted to die a poor man in some hospital, or on the scaffold as a martyr, or to be put to death by the...

“My Jesus, there is one thing I ask that I know you will grant. Yes, my Jesus, I ask you for love, for great flames of...

Mary will break your head, your errors, your vices and your tricks. Yes, all Christians, love and have a sincere and...

“God, in the soul of the just, does what fire does: he illumines, heats up and converts into fire the fuel, melts the...

“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart and you will find rest. For my yoke is...

The most productive means I have used has been adult instruction. It has helped me rescue adults from an ignorance...

“As if looking in a mirror, I should look at each created thing from where God´s goodness, wisdom, power and beauty...

“My neighbour, I love and cherish you for a thousand reasons Aut 448 LOVE FOR MY BROTHER AND SISTERS When we look at...

“My parents, whose names were John Claret and Josephine Clara, were married, upright, and God-fearing people, very...

“Thoroughly convinced that to be a good missionary it is both useful and essential to have love. I have searched for...

Jesus Christ was taken down from the cross and he showed us how he likes to be un-nailed through a good confession,...

The one who meditates has to behave as one who learns to draw a picture or writes by looking at the original and then...

“These ten precepts (of God´s law) are like many other branches coming from two main branches, the love of God and...

“There is no doubt that a child whose innocence has been preserved through good instruction is a treasure more...

“O my God, I give you my word that I shall do this: I shall preach, write, and circulate good books and pamphlets in...

“Love is the most necessary of all the virtues. Yes, I say it and will say it a thousand times: the virtue an...

“I never quarrelled with anyone but strove to be kind with all. I avoided all clowning and disliked silly and mocking...

“I have never made a penny's profit from the works I have seen through the presses. On the contrary I have given away...

“We have to love Mary, most holy and be her devotees, because the devotion to Mary, most holy is the very powerful...

“I am yearning to go to heaven to see Jesus loved and praised by the whole celestial palace; it will be a greater...

I frequently read the lives of those saints who were distinguished for their zeal in saving souls, and I felt the good...

“At each town I preached in, the first half of the service was marked by persecutions and calumnies by the wicked of...

“The world has always striven to hinder and persecute me, but our Lord has taken care of me and frustrated all its...

“Seeing that the Lord, out of sheer good will and no merit on my part, was calling me to stem the torrent of...

“The love for God does not consist only in language and words but also, and mainly, in deeds and truth, that is in...

“In prayer, humility, faith, hope, charity, religion and other virtues are practiced.” Diálogos sobre la oración, en...

“The other group that most claimed my attention was the clergy. If all those studying for service in the Church were...