"All the evils which poison men and trouble so many hearts have a single cause and single source: ignorance of the truth." ~ Pope St. John XXIII

"Pray very much for the Pope, bishops, and priests. Since your baptism you have always prayed faithfully for them. Continue to pray very much...very much." ~ Our Lady of Akita to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa #Saints #Quotes

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living." ~St. Cardinal John Henry Newman

"The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien #Saints #Quotes

"Airplanes must have runways before they fly. What the runway is to the airplane, the Rosary beads are to prayer - the physical start to gain spiritual altitude." ~ Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

"Confession is the soul's bath. You must go at least once a week. I do not want souls to stay away from confession more than a week. Even a clean and unoccupied room gathers dust; return after a week and you will see that it needs dusting again!" ~ St. Padre Pio #Saints #Quotes

"Every vocation to the priesthood comes from the Heart of God but it passes through the heart of a mother." ~ St. Pius X #Saints #Quotes

"Let the entire man be seized with fear; let the whole world tremble; let heaven exult when Christ, the Son of the Living God, is on the altar in the hands of the priest. O admirable height and stupendous condescension! O humble sublimity! O sublime humility! that the Lord of the universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself under a morsel of bread." ~ St. Francis of Assisi #Saints #Quotes

"If angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." ~ St. Maximilian Kolbe #Saints #Quotes

"Behind each priest, there is a demon fighting for his fall. If we have the language to criticize them. We must have twice as much to pray for them." ~ St. Teresa of Avila #Saints #Quotes

"Praying for sinners fascinated me, but praying for the souls of priests, whom I thought were purer than crystal, seemed strange to me! ... If holy priests, whom Jesus calls in His Gospel «Salt of the Earth» show by their behavior great need for prayer, then what must one say about the ones who are lukewarm? Did Jesus not also say: «If the salt lost its taste, what could one use to make it salty?» Oh Mother! How beautiful is the vocation to preserve that salt destined for sou

"When Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

“The powers of hell will assail the dying Christian; but his Guardian angel will come to console him. His patrons, and St. Michael, who has been appointed by God to defend his faithful servants in their last combat with the devils, will come to his aid.” ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori

"May the Madonna, whom St. John Mary Vianney loved and made his parishioners love, help every priest to revive the gift of God that is in him by virtue of his holy Ordination, so that he grow in sanctity and be ready to bear witness, even to the point of martyrdom, to the beauty of his total and definitive consecration to Christ and the Church." ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"The priest must belong totally to Christ and totally to the Church; to the latter he is called to dedicate himself with an undivided love, like a faithful husband to his bride." ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"St. Paul is an example of a priest who was completely identified with his ministry -- just as the holy Curé d'Ars would also be -- conscious of possessing a priceless treasure, that is, the message of salvation, but in an "earthen vessel" (cf. 2 Corinthians 4:7); thus he is at the same time strong and humble, intimately persuaded that everything is God’s doing, everything is grace." ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"The priest's life is one of sacrifice. We are living in times in which it is the priest's lot to be despised, hated and persecuted. But a comforting thought is that from the spirit of sacrifice derives a virtue which frightens those who do not know the secret of it and strikes even ourselves with amazement." ~ Pope St. Pius X #Saints #Quotes

"Pray for all good, faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

"If we only knew how God regards this Sacrifice, we would risk our lives to be present at a single Mass." ~ St. Padre Pio #Saints #Quote

"All past persecutors of the Church are now no more, but the Church still lives on. The same fate awaits modern persecutors; they, too, will pass on, but the Church of Jesus Christ will always remain, for God has pledged His Word to protect Her and be with Her forever." ~ St. John Bosco #Saints #Quotes

"Be a man, be a Catholic. Don't blush for your convictions. Be a man." ~ St. Maximilian Kolbe #Saints #Quotes

"There can be no Eucharist without the priesthood, just as there can be no priesthood without the Eucharist." ~ Pope St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"We are always priests with all our soul and with all our heart. Being an ambassador of Christ ... is a mission that penetrates our entire being." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

"He who honors a priest, honors Christ. He who insults a priest, insults Christ." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"Just as it is licit to resist a pontiff who attacks the body, so it is licit to resist him who attacks souls, or who disturbs the civil order, or above all, who tries to destroy the Church. It is licit to resist him by not doing what he orders and by impeding the execution of his will. It is not licit, however, to judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for such acts belong to a superior." ~ St. Robert Bellarmine #Saints #Quotes

"Realize that you may gain more in a quarter of an hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament than in all other practices of the day." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes

"The Virgin of Sorrows. When you contemplate her, look into her Heart; she is a Mother with two sons, face to face: He... and you." ~ St. Josemaria Escriva #Saints #Quotes

"If you see a priest at risk, because he has lost the joy of his ministry, or seeks affective compensation, or is taking the wrong path, remind him of his commitment to God and his people, remind him of the Gospel and urge him to hold to his course." ~ Pope Francis

To destroy the fetus "is something worse than murder." The one who does this "does not to take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born." ~ St. John Chrysostom, "Homilies on Romans" (Written about 391 AD)

"In celebrating the Eucharist each day, priests rediscover their identity as shepherds." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

"Pray much for priests because we need holy priests. The holier the priests are the more holy we religious will be. Then too, the more holy the families who are longing for God. If we have holy families we will have many holy vocations." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta #Saints #Quotes

"Every great reform has in some way been linked to the rediscovery of belief in the Lord's Eucharistic presence among his people." ~ Pope Benedict XVI #Saints #Quotes

"Every vocation to the priesthood comes from the heart of God, but it passes through the heart of a mother." ~ St. Pope Pius X

"It was to John that Christ confided Mary. That is because John was a priest and it is to priests, above all, that Christ gives His Mother because He has greater love for them and they have greater need of her." ~ Fr. Emile Neubert, SM

"The Heart of the Good Shepherd tells us that his love is limitless. It is never exhausted and it never gives up. There we see his infinite and boundless self-giving. There we find the source of that faithful and meek love which sets free and makes others free." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

"The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass." ~ St. Augustine #Saints #Quotes

"A shepherd after the heart of God has a heart sufficiently free to set aside his own concerns. He does not live by calculating his gains or how long he has worked: he is not an accountant of the Spirit, but a Good Samaritan who seeks out those in need." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

Without priests, we have no Jesus. Without priests, we have no absolution. Without priests, we cannot receive Holy Communion. ~ Mother Teresa

"Every slightest failing on our part brings the community under the judgment of God. Every least increase of priestly virtue brings it blessing." ~ Ven. Arch. Fulton J. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!" ~ Pope St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"If a priest is determined not to lose his soul, so soon as any disorder arises in the parish he must trample under foot all human considerations as well as the fear of the contempt and hatred of his people. He must not allow anything to bar his way in the discharge of duty, even where he is certain of being murdered on coming down from the pulpit. A pastor who wants to do his duty must keep his sword in hand at all times." ~ St. John Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can." ~ St. Dominic Savio #Saints #Quotes

"I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it." ~ Flannery O'Connor #Saints #Quotes

"Without priests the Church would not be able to live that fundamental obedience which is at the very heart of her existence and her mission in history, an obedience in response to the command of Christ: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Mt. 28:19) and "Do this in remembrance of me" (Lk. 22:19; cf. 1 Cor. 11.24), i.e:, an obedience to the command to announce the Gospel and to renew daily the sacrifice of the giving of his body and the shedding of his blood fo

"I appeal especially to families. May parents, mothers in particular, be generous in giving their sons to the Lord when he calls them to the priesthood. May they cooperate joyfully in their vocational journey, realizing that in this way they will be increasing and deepening their Christian fruitfulness in the Church and that, in a sense, they will experience the blessedness of Mary, the virgin mother: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!" (Lk.

"It is necessary to pray for priests because they are so often forgotten by the living, since Christians often consider that priests do not need prayers." ~ St. Joseph Moscati

"When people wish to destroy religion, they begin by attacking the priest, because where there is no longer any priest there is no sacrifice, and where there is no longer any sacrifice there is no religion." ~ St. John Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"The end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes

"A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven, not excused or sublimated." ~ Ven. Arch. Fulton J. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"What use would be a house filled with gold, were there no one to open its door? The priest holds the key to the treasures of heaven: it is he who opens the door: he is the steward of the good Lord; the administrator of his goods." ~ St. John Vianney #Saints #Quotes