St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Our entire perfection is founded on loving our most loving God. “Charity is the bond of perfection” (Col 3:14). And perfect love of God consists in the complete union of our will with God’s most …

Behold, Mary already leaves the earth, at which She looks with affection and compassion: with affection, remembering the many graces She had there received from her Lord; and with affection and compassion, because in it …

St. Gregory of Nyssa writes: “Blessed dart, which carries with it into the heart, the God who cast it!” By this the saintly Father means that when God pierces a heart with an arrow of …