Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.
May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar.
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.