Pope Francis: “When the world slumbers in comfort and selfishness, our Christian mission is to help it rouse from sleep.”

Pope Francis: “Sobriety…is the ability to renounce what is superfluous and to resist the dominant consumerist mentality. Sobriety is prudence, simplicity, straightforwardness, balance, and temperance. Sobriety is seeing the world through God’s eyes and from the side of the poor. Sobriety is a style of life which points to the primacy of others as a… Read More Quote of the Day

Pope Francis: “All baptized persons are missionaries of the Good News, above all by their lives, their work, and their witness of joy and conviction.”

Pope Francis: “In this Year of Mercy, there are these two paths: one of those who hope in God’s mercy and know that God is the Father; and then there are those who take refuge in the slavery of rigidity and know nothing of God’s mercy.”

Archbishop José Gomez: “In this Year of Mercy, let us try to have a more compassionate love for the poor, the unborn, the prisoner, the immigrant, and the sick.”

Pope Francis: “Spirituality is the backbone of all service in the Church and in the Christian life.  It is what nourishes all our activity, sustaining and protecting it from human frailty and daily temptation.”

Pope Francis: “Mercy is the path uniting God with man, for it opens the heart to the hope of an eternal love.”