1)
Paul VI: “There is a great disturbance in this
moment in the world of the Church and thus it is the Faith that is in question.
What is happening today reminds me of the
obscure phrase of Jesus in the Gospel of St. Luke, “When the Son of Man returns,
will he still find Faith on Earth?”
Books are being published in which the Faith is denied in important
points, yet the bishops remain silent, as if they do not find anything strange
in those books.”
2
)
“Cadrinal Ciappi, theologian from the pontifical
household from 1955 to 1989, in a letter reveals that “in the third secret of
Fatima, it is predicted, among other things, that the great apostasy in the
Church will begin at the top.”
– Antonio
Socci, “
The Fourth Secret of Fatima”
3)
[on the unreleased part of the third secret of
Fatima, a caller calls in to speak with Father Malachi Martin. Father Martin was
able to read the entirety of the third secret of Fatima.
The caller says that they know that the
secret] speaks of a Pope who “would be under the control of Satan.
Pope John [XXIII] was reeling, thinking that it
could have been him.”
Father Martin
responds: “Yes, it seems that this person would have had a means of reading or
would have been given the contents of the secret.”
- Antonio Socci, “
The Fourth Secret of Fatima”
4)
“One remains horrified in the face of a council
[Vatican II] that pronounces itself on everything, but does not proffer a single
word on the ideology of a regime [Communism] that since 1917 had realized (and
was still realizing in those years) on a planetary scale the most immense and
bloody work of eradication, extermination, and persecution of the Church in its
bi-millennial history. Pius XII was attacked furiously for years because,
according to his critics, he did not formulate clear and public condemnations
of Nazism during the war (which is, however, untrue).
But John XXIII has received only applause for
having contracted this “silence” with the Kremlin.”
- Antonio Socci, “
The Fourth Secret of Fatima”
5)
“All of the priests who maintain the possibility
of a dialogue with the deniers of God and with the Luciferian powers of the
world are mad, they have lost the Faith, they no longer believe in the
Gospel!
They thus betray the Word of
God, because Christ came to bring to Earth a perpetual alliance only with men
of goodwill, but not ally Himself with men thirsty for power and dominion over
their brothers.
The flock is dispersed
when the pastors ally themselves with enemies of the Truth of Christ.”
- Saint Padre Pio, 1963
6)
“Union of the soul with God is not accomplished
so much in the sweetness of prayer, as in embracing perfectly the holy Will of
God.”
- Father Gabriel of Saint Mary
Magdalen, “
Divine Intimacy”
7)
“Even when obstacles are put in the way of good
results from his apostolate, we must still be patient and pray much.
Neither must his patience diminish when his
capabilities seem to be out of all proportion with the work he has to do.”
- Fr. Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange O.P., “
The
Priest in Union With Christ”
8)
“God never confers a power on anyone without, at
the same time, giving them the necessary means for the worthy exercise of that
power.”
- Fr. Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange
O.P., “
The Priest in Union With Christ”
9)
“While the Reformation and the Enlightenment
begin as allies (The Christian and the secular versions of rejecting the
Natural Law and Catholicism), their intellectual grandchildren grew into bitter
21
st century rivals in America.
In fact, you know these grandchildren as the “religious right” and the “secular
left”.
– Timothy Gordon, “
Catholic
Republic”
10)
“What God has told me, take for truth I do.
Truth Himself speaks truly, or there’s
nothing true.”
- St. Thomas Aquinas,
Catechism
of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1381
11)
“There is always a danger in human nature of
watching self, and in prayer is a worse plague than anywhere else.
Watching self at prayer is not prayer and
being too concerned about where we are is a good way to hinder
development.
When a person is really
fervent in his love for God and totally intent on pleasing Him, he cannot stop
to bother about his own progress as though it were some kind of game to acquire
points…when we know we have given ourselves wholly to Him and our desire is to
cooperate with Him, we do not desire to know where we are but what He wants.”
- “
A Guide to the Stages of Prayer According
to St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila”
12)
“The miracles of the Church seem to me to rest
not so much upon forces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us
from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment
our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.”
- Willa Cather, “
Death Comes for the
Archbishop”
13)
“Ah well, that is a missionary’s life: to plant
where another shall reap.”
- Willa
Cather, “
Death Comes for the Archbishop”
14)
“He did as the angel had commanded him, and he
took Mary into his home.”
- Matthew 1:24
15)
“What is this Eucharistic vocation in the
opinion of St. Peter Eymard?
It is a
special attraction of grace, gentle but compelling – as if Christ were saying
to the soul: “Come to my sanctuary.”
Provided no resistance is offered, this attraction gradually becomes
supreme.
The faithful soul responding to
this invitation finds peace, as though it had discovered at long last its
natural home and spiritual food: “I have found my resting place.”
- Fr. Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange O.P., “
The
Priest in Union With Christ"
16)
“The angel awaits an answer. Tearful Adam with his sorrowing family begs
this of you, o loving Virgin, in their exile from paradise. Abraham begs it, David begs it. All the other holy patriarchs, your
ancestors, ask it of you as they dwell in the country of the shadow of
death. This is what the whole Earth
waits for, prostrate at your feet. It is
right in doing so, for on your word depends comfort for the wretched, ransom
for the captive, freedom for the condemned…”Behold the handmaid of the Lord”, she
says, “be it done to me according to your Word.” – St. Bernard, “A Homily in
Praise of the Virgin Mother”
17)
“Priests who remain faithful to Mary are fired
by her with extraordinary zeal.
This is
particularly true of those priests who consecrate themselves to Mary in the way
suggested by St. Louis De Montfort.”
- Fr.
Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange O.P., “
The Priest in Union With Christ”
18)
“The fool, who has no understanding of our
dignity and our hopes, accuses the Creator of injustice, pointing out signs of
imperfection in the designs of Divine Wisdom.
He is like a savage who one day goes into one of our building
yards.
There he sees stones scattered
about, materials lying on top of one another, workmen carving metals and
cutting away marble; and the spectacle preserved by this activity, he sees only
a picture of confusion and ruin.
He does
not know that the apparent disorder will, one day, engender an order of
admirable perfection.”
- Fr. Charles
Arminjon, “
The End of the Present World”
19)
“Man is alive as long as he waits, as long as
hope is alive in his heart…our moral and spiritual stature can be measured by
what we wait for, by what we hope for.”
- Pope Benedict XVI, “
Angelus Address to Begin Advent, 2010”
20)
“Our heart is an altar.
The victim placed on this altar is our evil
inclinations…the sacred fire, which must burn night and day on the altar of our
heart, is the love of Jesus Christ.”
-
Father Charles Arminjon, “
The End of the Present World”
