Quotes

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “St. Jerome was right to compare vainglory to the shadow. In fact, the shadow follows the body wherever it goes; it even measures its steps. The body flees…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Let us always be on our guard. Let us not let the enemy of vainglory penetrate into our minds and our hearts because once he enters, he makes…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices 11- “Let us continually ask God the grace of being preserved from the pestilent vice of vainglory, because “every perfect gift comes from on high and descends from…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Our Lord, always solicitous for our good, in order to preserve us from the great enemy of vainglory, warns us of it in various places in the Gospel.…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Let us be careful to not ever talk to others about the things with which the good Jesus is favoring us, other than our spiritual director and confessor.…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “ ‘If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.’ With this sentence, St. Paul wants to say to us for our common edification:…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Let us be careful of vainglory, which is the vice characteristic to devout people. It urges us, without our realizing it, to appear always better than the others,…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “The way traced out by the apostle Paul to the Christian is to strip himself of the vices of the old man, that is, of the earthly man,…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “St. Paul experienced very severely within himself the rebellion of the senses and of the passions, for which he uttered this lament: ‘Therefore, I myself, with the mind…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “ ‘I find then a law’ says St. Paul ‘that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me.’ To feel the stimulus of…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “The most seducing passions that vent themselves in manifold actions are those of the sense which are (according to the apostle Paul) fornication, uncleanness, impurity, tainted concupiscence, and…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Persons dominated by vices are called by St. Paul “sons of incredulity”, being the vices those which most blind man, making him most easily lose from his sight…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “The vices with which one can most offend his neighbor interiorly with the heart are, according to how the Apostle of the gentiles presents is to us: anger,…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Anger is a moral passion common even to the just man. In and of itself it is not a sin; but if one does not know how to…

Ave Maria!-- April's Theme: Vices “Indignation is a vice that sprouts from anger. One has it when he esteems others unworthy of possessing what he has; it would like to see the other…