Spirituality and Community Life

“Do not aspire to the dignities and ecclesiastical benefices, yes God does not call you to them, like Aaron; and if...

“Jesus Christ ( ... ) to the gloomy inventions of the genius of error has opposed the sun of the Catholic faith, the...

“We must love the Blessed Virgin Mary because God wants it. To love is to want good for the beloved, it is to do good...

*190. - “Demos gracias a Dios: ya el Señor y su Santísima Madre se han dignado aceptar las primicias de los mártires....

“Let us give thanks to God: already the Lord and his Blessed Mother have very kindly accepted the first fruits of the...

On reaching the Gulf of Damas, (travelling to Cuba) I began conducting a mission on deck. Everyone on board attended...

“…my honourable Prelate D. Luciano Casadevall called me aside and gave me the letter of your Excellency and the...

“When they came to get my regular clothing they also took the Bible I had brought. I asked for it and was told, “Very...

“Quite content, I undertook the journey to Barcelona.... Shortly before my arrival at Barcelona, a hurricane came up,...

“I also had good parents who cooperated with my teacher in moulding my understanding in truth and nurturing my heart...

Mary “is a full moon for the sinners [those]; who she shines on in the night of sin, so that they do not fall into...

“Oh Virgin and Mother of God, I offer myself as your son, and in the honour and glory of your purity I consecrate to...

“The world was converted by the preaching of the crucified Jesus and by the frequent reception of Holy Communion. The...

If you saw your father being beaten and stabbed, wouldn’t you run to defend him? Wouldn't it be a crime for you to...

I surrender all as a son and priest of Mary. She will be my Mother, Teacher and Director and everything I do and...

“The Heart of Mary was not only a living member of Jesus Christ by faith and charity, but also the origin and source...

“A farm without cultivation produces nothing either for the owner or farmer. Religion without worship serves nothing,...

[In the Jesuit novitiate] “I had something to learn from everyone, and in truth I learned it, with the help of God's...

“In the province of Tarragona I was loved by nearly all the people, but there were a few who wished me dead. The...

“At the beginning of my stay in Vic I was undergoing an experience not unlike what goes on in a blacksmith's shop. The...

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

“The Lord has freed me from death. In this square there were five blockades, one in each entrance to a street....... I...

Seeing the great lack of evangelical and apostolic preachers in our Spanish territories, the people’s great desire to...

“The ministry of the Word--at once the most exalted and invincible of all ministries because it has overcome the world...

“It is very important to be devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She will free you from evils and troubles of body and...

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...