August 8
“A Catholic cannot help but be happy; sadness should be banished from their souls. Suffering is not sadness, which is the worst disease. This disease is almost always caused by atheism, but the end for which we are created guides us along life’s pathway, which may be strewn with thorns, but is not sad. It is happy even through suffering.”
-Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
August 6
“Jesus is very creative because he hides in a little piece of bread, and only God could do something so incredible!”
-Blessed Carlo Acutis
August 5
“Jesus, make yourself at home! Live within me as if it were your own dwelling!”
-Blessed Carlo Acutis
August 4
"Our true homeland is Heaven; therefore, let us strive to take more souls there."
-Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
August 3
“The times we are going through are difficult because cruel persecution of the Church is raging. But you bold and good young people should not be afraid of this small thing; remember that the Church is a divine institution and cannot come to an end. She will last till the end of the world. Not even the gates of hell can prevail against her.”
-Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
August 1
“By standing before the Eucharistic Christ, we become holy.”
-Blessed Carlo Acutis
July 18
"In a wholly singular way she [Mary] cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the work of the Savior in restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is mother to us in the order of grace."
-Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium
July 16
“There is a Marian ‘style’ to the Church’s work of evangelization. Whenever we look to Mary, we come to believe once again in the revolutionary nature of love and tenderness. In her we see that humility and tenderness are not virtues of the weak but of the strong..."
-Pope Francis
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