Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

For it is in giving that we receive.