“At the approach of a great feast you must watch yourself with particular care. The enemy endeavors beforehand to chill your heart towards the subject, the event being celebrated, so that you will not honor it by whole-heartedly considering its…

“To suffer lovingly is to suffer no longer. To flee from the cross is to be crushed beneath its weight. We should pray for a love of the cross, then it will become sweet.” ‘One day’, said Fr. Monnin, ‘I…

“As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been yes and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you… was not yes and no; but in Him it is always yes.…

“Indeed, [Elijah] was exceedingly perfect, but in his own times, when the mind of men was in some degree childish, and they needed this kind of schooling… nevertheless [the Apostles] have more required of them than [Elijah]” St. John Chrysostom…

“When Christ calls a man He bids him, 'come and die'.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer A few weeks ago Public Broadcast Television aired an original movie on the life of the famous German Lutheran pastor and scholar, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This was not…