Hold fast Quote by Carrie Gress

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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