"Everything in the Law, even the smallest detail, is significant, and everything, even the smallest detail, will be accomplished in the Gospel."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent

"Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they [the Jews] have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
— St. Paul, Romans 10:1–4 (ESV:CE)

"God showed me how to have faith in him for ever, as one who is never to be doubted. He answered my prayer in such a way that in the last days, ignorant though I am, I might be bold enough to take up so holy and so wonderful a task, and imitate in some degree those whom the Lord had so long ago foretold as heralds of his Gospel, bearing witness to all nations."
— St. Patrick, Confessions of St. Patrick, Office of Readings

Collect for the Feast of Saint Patrick

Full Video: Patrick: Brave Shepherd of the Emerald Isle

Beware the sin of superstition:
"To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition."
— Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 2111

The role of sacramentals in the Church:
"Sacramentals do not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that the sacraments do, but by the Church’s prayer, they prepare us to receive grace and dispose us to cooperate with it."
— Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1670

The Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Brown Scapular) devotion is one that I have held in high regard since I was enrolled. The Scapular acts as a constant reminder of the intercession of Mary and the necessity of prayer, it is hard to forget God when Our Lady's Scapular points us unrelentingly to Christ. In the times of temptation it acts as a physical reminder of the efficacy of prayer, and in the regrettable case of grave sin, so long as it remains on your person, it points you towards the contrition and the Sacrament of Penance. I strongly encourage you to prayerfully consider enrolling, taking into account your current devotionals (it is best to keep a few devotionals steadily rather than heaping up different ones, a devotional item that doesn't lead to true devotion will do you no good).

"O holy Apostle Paul of Tarsus, from your glorious place in heaven, look down upon the race you loved so well. True it is that many of them remained deaf to your ringing words of truth, and that some of them even stirred up persecution against you and your fellow believers, but you were so devoted to your people that you willed to become a castaway for the sake of their conversion. Now that you are glorious in heaven, obtain for your brethren the grace of repentance and conversion, so that they may finally take their rightful place in the great family of the Catholic Church. AMEN."
— Prayer to St. Paul for the Conversion of the Jews

"What, then, are we asking when we say, Hallowed be thy name? We beg that God’s name be held holy among people who until now have not regarded him as holy by reason of their unbelief, though of himself and in himself, and in his saints, he is always holy... In him may they find their joy, as straightforward men and women in their straightforward Lord; for how good God is to Israel! But only to those of straightforward hearts."
— St. Augustine, Exposition 1 of Psalm 103

"Are we that much different from Our Lord’s tormentors? Often, don’t we deny that He is king, refusing to obey His only commands that we love Him and one another? Don’t we render Him mock tribute, pay Him lip service with our half-hearted devotions? ... And despite our repeated failures, our frailty, Jesus still humbles Himself to come to us, offering us His Body and Blood in the Eucharist."
— Scott Hahn and Ken Ogorek, Breaking the Bread: A Biblical Devotional for Catholics Year B

"By the words of the Transubstantiation, what took place on Holy Thursday, Christ’s gift of self as nourishment for eternal life, takes place again — in a form which also outwardly resembles the Savior’s act on that holy night."
— Fr. Romano Guardini, Meditations Before Mass

The Fifth Luminous Mystery

"In the ancient rite of Communion, the priest said, 'The body of Jesus Christ,' and the faithful responded, 'Amen,' or 'so it is,' and 'The blood of Jesus Christ,' and the faithful responded, 'Amen,' 'so it is.' All has been accomplished. All has been said. All has been explained. I am silent. I believe. I adore."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent

"We must rejoice a great deal over this transformation by which we are taken from earthly coarseness to heavenly dignity through that ineffable mercy of the one who descended to our state in order to lift us up to his."
— Pope St. Leo the Great, On the Lord's Resurrection, Delivered on Holy Saturday on the Easter Vigil

"O my God, I resolve with all my heart, in your presence, every day, to think about death, at least when I lie down and when I rise... I will praise God for having brought me to think about repentance, and I will put order into my affairs, into my confession, into my meditation, thinking not about what passes, but with great care, great courage, and great diligence about what remains."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent

Christ is King. Every knee will bow; every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.