“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin, human brokenness, persecution, or civilizational collapse. Through the ordered and penitential life of monks, the disorder of the… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“St. Benedict and every Benedictine who has followed (one prays) understood that the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin, human brokenness, persecution, or civilizational collapse.… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Motherhood, more than most other types of love, quickly acclimates us to what true love is: an act of the will, not simply a… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Pope Pius X said. “If we were to lose Mary,” the pope explained, “the world would wholly decay. Virtue would disappear, especially holy purity… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Explaining hell, Lúcia wrote, “Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze,… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline. “Civilizations,” Toynbee… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“In one of Mary’s apparitions to Bernadette, Our Lady asked her to dig in the dirt. As she dug, a spring trickled through the… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“When the storms of temptation encompass you, look up to this star, invoke Mary. When the waves of pride are washing over your ship,… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“There are also new stories pouring out of Iraq as Islamic State–controlled territories are losing ground and Iraqis are reclaiming Christian territories. One miraculous… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“The story of Lourdes starts centuries before young Bernadette encountered the beautiful woman at Massabielle. While the area of Massabielle was known as a… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“To eliminate her from Scripture is to deform the story—to not tell it correctly—and actually dishonors Jesus. Consider how much the common man honors… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“All grace,” says St. Maximilian Kolbe, “ultimately comes to us from God the Father, through the merits of Jesus Christ, His Son, and is… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“the height of European culture was centered on devotion to Our Lady. In the places where European culture soared, so too did devotion to… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Salette, France (1846) The next apparition at La Salette happened four years later, in 1846. High up in the French Alps, Mary appeared to… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“the moment of her conception, Mary was fruitful through the Holy Spirit while simultaneously acting as a mirror to humanity of what the Holy… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Living the Marian Option does not require a change of address, career, or nationality; what it does require is going deep in one’s faith… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“We normally look to prayer to change the external realities of our life, but the Polish pope also knew the power of prayer could… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
