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- Excerpts from the interview of Sister Lucia of Fatima by Father Fuentes, 1957
- “Not unfrequently the gratification of man’s inordinate desires, so far from satisfying him, only creates other more violent passions…”
- “If men find it so difficult to make known their sins in the secrecy of confession… how will they bear to see them revealed before the universe?”
- “Every moment is worth more to you than all the riches of the universe”
- “Nothing but virtue and devotion can make your soul content in this world.”
- St Alphonsus of Liguori on Ambition
- St. Felix of Cantalicio, Capuchin
- Saint Francis of Sales: “It is a mistake to desire martyrdom, and not to have the courage to bear an injury”
- St. Francis of Sales on the occasions of sin
- Saint John of the Cross: “The path of suffering is far preferable to that of pleasure”
- Saint Thomas More: Standing Fast When Virtue Is Punished
- “… true faith is necessary to salvation no less than morality…”
- Sister Lucia of Fatima: “the two means to save the world are prayer and sacrifice”
- Sister Lucia of Fatima: “… there is no problem, however difficult it may be… that we cannot resolve through the prayer of the Holy Rosary”
- True Capuchin Poor Clares do not owe obedience to Antipopes, such as those currently occupying the Vatican
- No salvation outside the Catholic Church
- Rule of Saint Clare
- Our Lady is said to have promised St. Peter Thomas that the Carmelite Order will persist until the end of the world
- F. Francis of Jesi: “The more government was lacking in human terms, the more the government of God was manifest”
- Chapter 11That the Brothers ought not to speak evil or detract, but ought to love one another.
- Portrait of Saint Francis of Assisi
- Jesus Christ is said to have promised Saint Francis that the three Orders he founded would endure until the end of the world
- Saint Teresa of Avila: The Order of Saint Dominic will last until the end of the world
- Foundation of the Capuchin Poor Clares
- Saint Francis: “Their study should not be so much about knowing what to say, but about knowing what to do”
- Meeting of King Saint Louis with Blessed Giles of Assisi
- Ascent of Mount of CarmelBy Saint John of the Cross
- Dark night of the SoulBy Saint John of the Cross
- 02 - On Discretion
- Saint Francis - What is perfect joy?
- St. Francis of Assisi is the inventor of the Nativity Scene
- How he predicted that learning would become an occasion of ruin
- The Beatitudes Declared by Our Father Saint Francis
- The Religious StateBy Saint Alphonsus of Liguori
- Pride
- 05 Sept - Blessed WilliamMartyr (d. 1334).
- What Saint Francis Said to the Brothers He Sent to Preach in Morocco
- How a Man Can Know Whether He Is in Charity
- On Humility – How Man Comes to Self-Contempt
- On the Four Battles of the Soul
- On charity
- Saint Francis: “poverty is the supreme path to salvation”
- That One Must Rejoice Spiritually in the Lord
- Vain and Proud Preachers
- Of Murmuring and Detraction
- How One Must Go to the Land of the Infidels
- Saint Francis: “I do not want my brothers to be passionate about knowledge or books”
- Good Words and Bad Words
- On Holy Spiritual Prudence
- Jacopone da Todi: How a Man Can Know Whether He Is in Charity
- Love of Enemies
- What Saint Francis Did Upon Hearing a Brother Denigrate Another’s Reputation
- St. Francis reprimanded the brothers for having prepared a table with too much abundance on Christmas Day
- Stabat Mater
- Of Useful Science and Useless Science — Of the Preachers of the Word of God
- How Appetites Obscure the Soul
- The advantages the soul finds in the deprivation of all ideas, of all natural knowledge of the memory
- The Faith
- The Trials of the Soul on the Path to God
- Revelations of Saint Teresa of Avila: “Do you think, my daughter, that merit consists in enjoying? No, but in working, suffering, and loving”