Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

  "A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil." St. Dominic de Guzman

 

  (Art Work of Marge Hendry- Photo©Michael Seagriff)  “No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary: either they will give up sin or they will give up the Rosary.”                (Bishop Hugh Doyle)

 

"In the early days of the Church, Christians risked their lives just to attend Mass and to receive Holy Communion. Today, the majority does not attend Sunday Mass.   Rarely do they or the thousands who only come on Christmas and/or Easter hear of the eternal consequences for skipping Mass.   In some places, it is more important not to offend their “feelings” than to evidence zeal for the salvation of their souls. " (From Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to  Challenge, Inspire and Instruct )

What is a little suffering in this life, if you are spared everlasting torments?   Think of the rich glutton, now burning in hell.   What would he not do to expiate his sins, could he return to this world?   There is no reason why you should not now do as much, if you feel that you have ever offended God. Ven. Louis Granada, O.P

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )   I will remember the four last things: death, judgment, heaven or hell, and remembering them as I ought, I shall never sin.  Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S. 

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )     G od detests failings because they are failings. On the other hand, however, in a certain sense, He loves failings since they give to Him an opportunity to show His mercy, and to us an opportunity to remain humble and to understand and to sympathize with our neighbor’s failings.  Pope John Paul I