Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Theologically, we have been discovering anew that the Church is not an appendage to the Gospel: it is itself a part of the Gospel. The Gospel cannot be separated from that new people of God in which its nature is to be made manifest.

Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!

That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou.

It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Body of Christ if they labor to be the body of Christ; and they become the body of Christ if they study to live by the Spirit of Christ: for that which lives by the Spirit of Christ is the body of Christ.

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

the call of a loon across a quiet lake.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Are you trying to live through me?

Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.