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How like God's love yours has been to me- so wise, so generous, and so unsparing!" exclaimed Pancratius. "Promise me one thing more- that is, that you will stay near to me to the end, and carry my last legacy to my mother.

Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.

God awaits us with open arms; we need only to take a step toward him like the Prodigal Son. But if, weak as we are, we don't have the strength to take that step, just the desire to take it is enough.

Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".

What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000.

... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject iniquity. __hat shall a man gain if he has the whole world and lose his soul,_ (Matt. 16: v. 26) - but for a notorious name, the ethereal shadow of a career, and a brief life of fleeting pleasure with no true peace? This was the blackest and most captivating tragedy of all, few could have remained indifferent to the growing intrigue of this individual who apparently shook hands with the devil and freely chose to descend to the molten, sulphuric chasm of Hell for all eternity for so little in exchange. It is a drama that continues to fascinate today as powerfully as when Faustus first disseminated his infamous card in the Heidelberg locale to the scandal of his generation. In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.

That's it. Love makes us all strong.

It__ not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it__ the most patriotic thing we can do.