+ “‘But who to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!’ (Gospel Reading, Mk. 13:17). One must not believe that the Lord was drawing our attention to the burden of pregnant women when He said, ‘Woe to those who are with child.’ Instead,...

+ The Virgin Mother diligently held in her heart everything that she had come to know about the Lord, whether from the Lord’s sayings or from His deeds, and she assiduously committed them all to memory so that, when the time should come for preaching about the Lord or for...

+ “Do you see that your practice of life has more power to do good? By practice I mean, not your fasting, nor yet your covering yourself with sackcloth, but rather if you are kindly affectionate, if you give your bread to the hungry, if you control anger, if you...

+ “The Virgin Mother diligently held in her heart everything that she had come to know about the Lord, whether from the Lord’s sayings or from His deeds, and she assiduously committed them all to memory so that, when the time should come for preaching about the Lord or for...

+ “She was a virgin, not only in body, but in her mind as well. Lowly of heart, serious in her speech, prudent in spirit, sparing in words, devoted to reading, she did not place her hope in changeable riches but in the prayer of the poor. Industrious in her...