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We give thanks, Your Majesty, for your devotion and your dedication over 50 extraordinary years. And we offer in return our respect, our admiration and, yes, our love.


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FRANCIS OF ASSISI I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... sett...
JOAN OF ARC I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the imp...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
MARY OF TECK Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Foun...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Beginning a short series on prayer: Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES OF SINOPE O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first tw...
GREGORY OF NYSSA Business tomorrow.
ARCHIAS OF THEBES For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when y...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend t...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, eve...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA