According to the mystics, the intercession of St. Joseph is most powerful for attaining the virtue of purity, overcoming sensual inclinations of the flesh, procuring powerful help to escape sin and return to God's friendship, and increasing love and devotion to Our Lady.

We will keep noticing.

The closer someone brings their own soul or another’s to God, the more pleasing the sacrifice is to Him.

My God, teach me to love your Cross. Teach me to love the absolute solitude of everything and everyone. I understand, Lord, that this is how you love me, that this is the only way you can bend to yourself this heart so full of the world and so occupied with vanities.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself - St Augustine

Man cannot live without joy ; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. - St Thomas Aquinas

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given. - Saint Francis of Assisi

Pray, hope and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. - Saint Padre Pio

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.

“O Mother of God and of all men! We beg you to purify our senses, so that we may begin to enjoy God here on earth and Him alone, in the beauty of creatures.” Pope Pius XII Prayer for the Assumption

August 15th | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The measure of love is to love without measure - Saint Augustine of Hippo

"Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence." - Saint Francis de Sales

He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost. - St. Ignatius of Antioch

“Let us have no desire but to please God, and to be pleasing to Him, let us die to all things.” — St. Alphonsus Liguori

st augustine is one of the most relatable saints ever

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us – St. Augustine

Pray for Charlie Kirk 🙏🏻

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