"It is the peculiar property of the Church that when she is buffeted, she is triumphant; when she is assaulted with argument she proves herself in the right; when she is deserted by her supporters, she holds the field."
- St. Hilary of Poiters
"The Catholic Church is the work of divine Providence, achieved through the prophecies of the prophets, through the Incarnation and teaching of Christ, through the journeys of the apostles, through the suffering, the crosses, the blood and death of the martyrs, through the admirable lives of the saints. ...
"When we see, then, so much help on God's part, so much progress and so much fruit, shall we hesitate to bury ourselves in the bosom of that Church?
"For the beginning with the apostolic chair, down through successions of bishops, even to the open confession of all mankind, it has possessed the crown of teaching authority."
- St. Augustine of Hippo
"The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses.
"Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course."
- St. Boniface of Mainz
"The teaching of the Church. . .is both the starting line and the finish line for the race; it is the bridle of a tightly reined horse."
- St. John of Damascus
"Comfort in tribulation can be secured only on the sure ground of faith holdings as true the words of Scripture and the teaching of the Catholic Church."
- St. Thomas More
St. Augustine walking by the sea, pondering the Trinity, met a child emptying the ocean into a small sandpit with a shell. When told it was impossible, the child replied: "It is easier to empty the sea into this hole than for your intellect to grasp the mystery of God."
"To be a Christian is the great thing, not merely to seem one.
"And somehow or other those please the world most who please Christ least."
- St. Jerome
Priestly ordinations for FSSP seminarians took place yesterday morning at St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska, and were celebrated by His Excellency Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami.
Please keep these men in your prayers.