The Principal Means Of Acquiring An Ardent

True Charity Consists In Doing Good To Those Who Do Us Evil, And In Thus Winning Them Over.

St. Augustine And St. Thomas Define Mortal Sin To Be A Turning Away From God: That Is, The Turning Of One's Back Upon God, Leaving The Creator For The Sake Of The Creature. What Punishment Would That Subject Deserve Who, While His King Was Giving Him A Command, Contemptuously Turned His Back Upon Him To Go And Transgress His Orders? This Is What The Sinner Does; And This Is Punished In Hell With The Pain Of Loss, That Is, The Loss Of God, A Punishment Richly Deserved By Him Who In This Life Turns His Back Upon His Sovereign Good.

Ask Those Who Love Him With A Sincere Love, And They Will Tell You That They Find No Greater Or Prompter Relief Amid The Troubles Of Their Life Than In Loving Conversation With Their Divine Friend.

Mary Being Destined To Negotiate Peace Between God And Man, It Was Not Proper That She Should Be An Accomplice In The Disobedience Of Adam.

Of All Devotions, That Of Adoring Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament Is The Greatest After The Sacraments, The One Dearest To God And The One Most Helpful To Us.