Blessed Alan de la Roche

The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.

Benedict XVI

It is important to recognize dissent for what it is, and not to mistake it for a mature contribution to a balanced and wide-ranging debate. It is the truth revealed through Scripture and Tradition and articulated by the Church’s Magisterium that sets us free. Cardinal Newman realized this, and he left us an outstanding example of faithfulness to revealed truth by following that 'kindly light' wherever it led him, even at considerable personal cost. Great writers and communicators of his stature and integrity are needed in the Church today, and it is my hope that devotion to him will inspire many to follow in his footsteps.

St. Gerard Majella

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

St. Therese of Lisieux

Enjoy in peace the joy God is giving you, without worrying about the future. He is reserving for you, I am sure, new graces and many consolations.

St. Augustine

Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.

St. Anselm

O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire Thee with our whole heart; that,
so desiring, we may seek, and, seeking, find Thee; and so finding Thee,
may love Thee; and loving Thee, may hate those sins from which Thou hast
redeemed. Amen.

Vatican II's Optatam Totius #2

The duty of fostering vocations pertains to the whole Christian community, which should exercise it above all by a fully Christian life. The principal contributors to this are the families which, animated by the spirit of faith and love and by the sense of duty, become a kind of initial seminary, and the parishes in whose rich life the young people take part. Teachers and all those who are in any way in charge of the training of boys and young men, especially Catholic associations, should carefully guide the young people entrusted to them so that these will recognize and freely accept a divine vocation. All priests especially are to manifest an apostolic zeal in fostering vocations and are to attract the interest of youths to the priesthood by their own life lived in a humble and industrious manner and in a happy spirit as well as by mutual priestly charity and fraternal sharing of labor.