saints

St. John Henry Newman: Never does God give faith, but He tries it. Never does He implant the wish to sit on His right hand and on His left, but He fulfills it by making us wash our brethren’s feet.

I just realized that I’ve referenced two books by Father Donald H. Calloway, MIC, in my first five posts. And in both cases I was pulling quotes from St. Peter Julian Eymard. I benefitted a lot by going through Fr. Calloway’s Consecration to St. Joseph. In that book, a lot of the quotes from St.…

Even though we’re well past March 19 I wanted to share this Consecration prayer to St. Joseph from St. Peter Julian Eymard: I consecrate myself to you, good St. Joseph, as my spiritual father. I choose you to rule my soul and to teach me the interior life, the life hidden away with Jesus, Mary,…

…I’ll share these words from St. Peter Julian Eymard that have stayed with me since I first read them: Eucharistic adorers share Mary’s life and mission of prayer at the foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all missions, and it holds no perils. It is the most holy, for…