I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.

Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.