“Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for your soul than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the favorite devotion of the saints.” GivingSoulWholeInspirationFaithCan DoGreaterDutyBearsHolyMassGloryCrossesStrongerCatholicSaintDevotionYour SoulProfitableGlory Of God Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.” YearsDoneLeftDutyCatholic Author:James Connolly
“Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.” PeopleChildrenFiveDutyPressureResponsibleCatholicBillsRaisedAlcoholHouseholdIndulgenceCollectorsCookers Author:James Wolcott
“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.” IfsReasonNaturalChurchPowerfulExistencePowerImpossibleDutyRegardCatholicCatholicismDogmaExistence Of GodRoman Catholic Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein