Inspiring Quotes for the Holy Week

[hubag bohol]

"Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love – which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, “How can I please God?” and, “Why am I not better?” It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition." -Fulton J. Sheen

[hubag bohol]

“The Lord measures out perfection neither by the multitude nor the magnitude of our deeds, but by the manner in which we perform them.” -St. John of the Cross

[hubag bohol]

"Doing penance for one's sins is a first step towards obtaining forgiveness and winning eternal salvation. That is the clear and explicit teaching of Christ, and no one can fail to see how justified and how right the Catholic Church has always been in constantly insisting on this. She is the spokesman for her divine Redeemer. No individual Christian can grow in perfection, nor can Christianity gain in vigor, except it be on the basis of penance." -Pope John XXIII

[hubag bohol]

“Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.” -Fulton J. Sheen

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[hubag bohol]

"We ought to fast, and to abstain from all vice, and from all that will lead us into sin, as well as from extravagance and superfluity." -St. Francis of Assisi

A tall order indeed...

[hubag bohol]

“Renounce yourself in order to follow Christ; discipline your body; do not pamper yourself, but love fasting.” -Saint Benedict

Daghan jamo ang nahiagtang ani (nahitijan pud)...

[Lorenzo]

“We must sanctify ourselves at every moment, for we know not if the next will be ours. It is for us to become holy here and now, for we cannot be certain whether we will be here this evening. The better we fulfill our obligations the more we give glory to God and respond to the will of the Immaculata.

So important is the present moment that we must continually re-mind ourselves of it as the means of sanctification.

Will to love.”

- St. Maximilian Kolbe