Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration..... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary