Catholic Daily Brief

The Agony in the Garden

Meditation 9: Private Instructions and Consecrations

Meditation 8: The Institution of the Holy Eucharist

Meditation 5: Jesus Goes Up to Jerusalem Meditation 6: The Last Pasch Meditation 7: The Washing of the Feet

Meditation 1: Preparations for the Pasch Meditation 2: The Supper Room Meditation 3: Arrangements for Eating the Paschal Lamb Meditation 4: The Chalice Used at the Last Supper

There are three laws of pleasure which make the attainment of happiness easier.

"Men and women are forever trying to add to their possessions far beyond the limit of enjoyment. This is because of their mistaken belief that their hunger for Infinity can be satisfied by an infinity of material things: what they really wish is the Infinity of Divine Love."

"Repose allows us to contemplate the little things we do in their relationship to the vast things which alone can give them worth and meaning."

"I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something quite different. I am asking him not to forgive me but to excuse me. But there is all the difference in the world between forgiving and excusing."

"Whom the Lord loveth tenderly, He chasteneth."

"From examining his own soul, any one of us can learn five general truths about all human beings."

"God made us out of nothing - nothing at all - and it well for us occasionally to recall that fact."

"This is, indeed, a century of revolutions. But it need not go down in history as a period when revolutions were entirely economic and political."

"Our exterior world today is in desperate straits, but the inner world of man is far from hopeless."

Sheen's thoughts on humility, egotism, and joy

"'Great works' (of art) and 'good works' (of charity) had better also be Good Work. Let choirs sing well or not at all. Otherwise we merely confirm the majority in their conviction that the world of Business, which does with such efficiency so much that never really needed doing, is the real, the adult, and the practical world; and that all this 'culture' and all this 'religion' (horrid words both...

"It will be infallible judgment. If it is favorable we shall have no fear, if unfavorable, no hope, that it is wrong. We shall not only believe, we shall know, know beyond doubt in every fibre of our appalled or delighted being, that as the Judge has said, so we are: neither more nor less nor other."

The theological implications of extraterrestrial life

"Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestions of men?"

"How is it right, or even psychologically possible, for creatures who are every moment advancing either to heaven or to hell, to spend any fraction of the little time allowed them in this world on such comparative trivialities as literature or art, mathematics or biology?"

The Seventh Word from the Cross: "Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit"

The Sixth Word from the Cross: "It is finished"

The Fifth Word from the Cross: "I thirst"

The Fourth Word from the Cross: "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"

Monica's death; Augustine's grief and prayers for her soul