Spirituality and Community Life

“If creatures fail you, if you are threatened by temptation, if your are afflicted by tribulation and the pains of...

If a community, a religion is lacking in spirit, it does not persevere. He who does not have the spirit of Christ...

“Jesus Christ was condemned to death and he carried the cross. He taught us how to be crucified to the world and the...

Faced with a choice of two goods, each of which would give God equal glory, I feel called to choose the poorer, the...

“Oh my God, how patient you were with me!” Aut 65 GOD’S STRANGE CALENDAR It is said that patience is the capacity to...

I learned from this that everyone, even the rudest people, should be treated kindly and affably and that much more may...

“As regards the foundation of Jaca, I do not know what to tell you, I always fearful in giving advice concerning the...

True peace is not found in the retreat and withdrawal from the task which God wants to entrust to his servants. When...

“When people receive communion only once a year, there is much coldness, when they receive communion twice a year,...

“The Spirit of the Lord inspires where it wills, when it wills and whom it wills,. On our part, the important thing is...

The doctors and Fathers of the Church say that if the tree is known by its fruits as it is written in the Gospel, what...

According to the comparison which St. Augustine took from the prophet David, the examples of the saints are to us,...

There are many rooms in the Father’s house, and each will be given glory according to the faithfulness with which they...

Most Blessed Mother, may the courtesy of your Immaculate Heart, in accepting us as your Sons, be praised a thousand...

Procure and do every possible good to your neighbour, spiritual and corporal, temporal and eternal. And when it is not...

“ I had to overcome many difficulties at the hands of the ecclesiastical superiors and the population before I could...

I will try to maintain the same humour and equilibrium without letting myself be highly predominated over by sadness...

“ I am so soft-hearted and compassionate that I can't bear seeing misfortune or misery without doing something to...

The most holy Virgin lived poorly and died very poorly. Religiosas en sus casas o las Hijas del Santísimo é Inmaculado...

It was not difficult for God to create the riches of heaven and earth. With just a word, let it be done, all was...

We should love the most holy Virgin Mary because it is what God wants… To love is to want the best for the one loved,...

“And this forced me to ask the Superior to relieve me of my duty as Regent and free me from any parish obligations and...

For the peoples, Provinces and Kingdoms to have peace and prosperity and be happy, it is important that they try and...

“To be Mary’s devotee is a sign of predestination, just as it is a sign of disapproval not to be her devotee or to...

We should love the Blessed Virgin Mary because she deserves it. Mary the most Holy deserves it for the many graces she...

“During that whole seven years, I was on the go from one town to another. I traveled alone and on foot. I had a...

“…I turn to the Lord and ask Him with all my heart, "O my Lord, you are my love, my honor, my hope, and my refuge! You...

“Humility is like the root of the tree, and meekness is its fruit” Aut 372 ROOT AND FRUIT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE Actually a...

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

“My God, I wish that I could prevent anyone from offending you; rather, I wish that I could make you known, loved, and...

“Many times each day I ask Jesus to help me understand what he wants me to do with regard to our Project, because I am...

“The Heart of Mary was the Temple of the Holy Spirit and more than a temple because from the most pure blood of this...

“The soul that with meditation does not go back on the wings of faith to the Creator of all things, and who is more...