Whenever any difficulty presented itself [in Holy Scripture], and especially in passages that were most obscure, he was accustomed to ask of Jesus, as his heavenly master, that intelligence and light of which he stood in need. He frequently raised his eyes from his books and fix them lovingly on the wounds of his crucified Lord; for some moment he would draw from that source of ineffable sweetness the delights which inundated his soul and immediately afterwards resume his reading. At other times, leaving his desk and casting himself on his knees, he poured forth to heaven and ardent prayer with sighs and lamentations, beseeching God to infuse into his soul new flames of love. He this passed from study to prayer, and from prayer to study, and each of these occupations developed at the same time his science and piety.

- From “St Vincent Ferrer” by Fr Andrew Pradel

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“Nada de turbe” / “Let Nothing Trouble You”

Nada te turbe,
nada te espante,
todo se pasa,
Dios no se muda.
La paciencia todo lo alcanza
quien a Dios tiene
nada le falta:
sólo Dios basta. 

Let nothing trouble you;
let nothing frighten you;
everything passes away,
but God does not.
[Through] patience
you will obtain everything;
whoever has God is lacking nothing:
only God is enough.

- St Teresa of Avila

The people complained against God and Moses,

“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!”

In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died.
Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people,

- Numbers 4:5-7

and the LORD said to Moses, “Make a seraph and mount it on a pole, and everyone who has been bitten will look at it and recover.”

- Number 4:8

And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

- John 3:14-15

If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

- Luke 14:26

Our soul is like a hot air balloon. If by chance there is a mortal sin, the soul falls to the ground. Confession is like the fire underneath the balloon, enabling the soul to rise again… It is important to go to confession often.

- Bl Carlo Acutis

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

- Luke 14:27

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

- Matthew 11:29-30

If you postpone going to confession until you commit a mortal sin - you will eventually commit a mortal sin.

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The witness of Scripture is unanimous that the solicitude of divine providence is concrete and immediate; God cares for all, from the least things to the great events of the world and its history.

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 303

At his voice [while preaching], a crowd of sinners, weeping over their past iniquities, began a life of sincere penitence and repaired with edifying piety the scandals they had given to the world.

- St Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of Judgment by Fr Andrew Pradel

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed
than with two hands to go into Gehenna,
into the unquenchable fire.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off.
It is better for you to enter into life crippled
than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.
Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye
than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,

where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'

- Mark 9:43-48

For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.

- Luke 9:48b

The Church holds firmly that the four Gospels, "whose historicity she unhesitatingly affirms, faithfully hand on what Jesus, the Son of God, while he lived among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation, until the day when he was taken up."

- Catechism of the Catholic Church 126

Prayer is a gift of grace but it always presupposes a determined response on our part because those who pray “battle” against themselves, their surroundings, and especially the Tempter who does all he can to turn them away from prayer. The battle of prayer is inseparable from progress in the spiritual life. We pray as we live because we live as we pray.

- Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church 572

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me.

- John 14:1

On arriving at any place, his first care was to visit the principal church, to pour forth his fervent supplications before the Blessed Sacrament and to commend to God his preaching.

- St Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of Judgment by Fr Andrew Pradel