+ A Blessed Feast of the Cross  “To take up one’s cross means to accept and bear unmurmuring everything unpleasant, painful, sad, difficult and oppressive that may happen to us in our life. And therefore, whether anyone offends you, or laughs at you, or causes you weariness, sorrow or annoyance;...

+ “The saints seek for themselves this sign of complete likeness to God: to be perfect in the love of their neighbor. It is said that St. Anthony never resolved within himself to do anything that would benefit himself more than his neighbors, because he possessed the hope that his...

+ Blessed Feast of St. Verena  “Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys” (Lk. 12:33). God does not want you to lose your wealth, but He has...

+ But we too, dearly beloved, can achieve the crowns of martyrdom even if we endure nothing of this sort [of physical death] — even if we do not put up with chains, beating, prison, other bodily punishment, persecution at the hand of our fellow human beings for righteousness’ sake....