But love is an end already, since God is love.” In an address just before Hitler’s rise to power, Saint Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) urged a group of Catholic women to fight for these very truths:

it is she who has prepared for us from her chaste womb the immaculate flesh that nourishes souls. Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072)

devotion to work; the ability to combine penetrating intuition with words of support and encouragement. Saint John Paul II Excerpt from his encyclical letter Redemptoris Mater (Mother of the Redeemer) , § 46

completed statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe was dedicated. She stands a top an angel and a cloud with saintly radiance surrounding her made of metal. The surface is decorated with thousands of vibrantly colored

for my eternal salvation: the Mass, the sacraments, the veneration of the Blessed Mother and the saints, the Magisterium, etc. This is why I trust her. Indeed, even if a priest guilty of serious sin celebrates

the incarnation of the Son of God in her: "Because He has looked upon the humility of his servant." Saint Angela of Foligno, an Italian mystic favored with many visions (d. 1309)

to do this with all your hearts. Offer yourself to her, and ask her to strongly help you to do so. Saint John Eudes, Complete Works III

to be reduced to lying or exposing an innocent woman to blame, wanted to send Mary away in secret. Saint Bernard, excerpt from the 2nd sermon “Super Missus est”

the pagans' greatest crimes. This was far from being the case with Mary's heart. A Sermon of Abbot Saint Bernard (dom. As., 14-15)

Jesus” On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Francis Xavier and Blessed (now Saint) Peter Faber, the Ignatian family celebrated a Jubilee Year in 2006, in which Pope Benedict XVI gave