And I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the Kingdom of Heaven, and the name of that river was suffering … and then I saw a boat which carried souls across the river, and the name of that boat was Love.
Saint John of the Cross
October 8, 2013
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And I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the Kingdom of Heaven, and the name of that river was suffering … and then I saw a boat which carried souls across the river, and the name of that boat was Love.
Saint John of the Cross
June 11, 2012
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
Pope John Paul II – 1987 A.D.
July 30, 2011
Kevin Author J, Love, Silence Comments Off on St John of the Cross on Silent Love of God
What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love.
St John of the Cross
September 22, 2010
Kevin Author J, Family, Marriage Comments Off on Pope John Paul II on “Gay Marriage” as an Attack on the Family and Man
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this [gay marriage] is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
Pope John Paul II – Memory and Identity
April 7, 2010
Kevin Author J, Purity Comments Off on St. Jerome on Purity
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
St. Jerome
March 25, 2010
Kevin Author J, Papacy, Schism Comments Off on St. Jerome on the primacy of Peter
The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.
St. Jerome