“When dark thoughts, disordered passions, and distractions come knocking on the door of our hearts, the simplest response is to say: ‘I do not consent.’ A simple ‘no’ keeps the heart pure even if such things keep bombarding us involuntarily.” – Fr. James Brent
“For most of my life, people would share private things and ask me what I thought. They didn’t ask what I knew. They asked what I thought.” – Debra Black
“Is God done raising up men and women of great prayer in his Church? Is a life devoted to meditation on the Word of God a thing of the past?” – Fr. James Brent
“What the monks learned by experience was that such practices prepare the mind to receive special illuminations from Holy Spirit for purposes of understanding Scripture.” – Fr. James Brent
“The hope of a Christian confronts every trial, even death itself. Christian hope does not just raise our spirits; it raises a battle flag against all the troubles of this life.” – Glenn Dickinson
“What would happen if everyone in the Church began offering rosaries, holy hours, novenas, and other sorts of prayers for themselves or their loved ones to grow in sanctifying grace?”- Fr. James Brent
“To remain in the state of prayerfulness, to abide in the loving awareness of the presence of God, is the dream of every contemplative soul.” – Fr. James Brent
Join us for this episode of Divine Intimacy Radio “Intimacy and Grace in Marriage” as we discuss the importance of matrimony and how the presence
“Of all the works done by God in time and outside of Himself, the redemptive Incarnation of the Word is the greatest.” -Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen
“No one on earth has the power to remove the Eucharist altogether from the face of the earth. Down through the centuries, many tyrants and totalitarian systems have tried, but they have never succeeded.” – Fr. James Brent