Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand'

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.