Father Michael Blog

“We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” Leo Tolstoy

Join me at 7 PM Monday, February 14 on Radio Maria’s Vigilant Heart for a live interview (https://radiomaria.us/live-radio-maria/) with Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, which borders the nation’s capital. Bishop Burbidge will share his compelling personal vocation story and discuss the universal call to evangelization, the centrality of the Eucharist, and a recent catechesis he issued on gender ideology which has received a lot of attention.

“Be kind to all and severe to thyself.” -St. Teresa of Avila

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”

— George R. R. Martin

“No country on earth, no political system can think of its own future otherwise than through the image of these new generations that will receive from their parents the manifold heritage of values, duties and aspirations of the nation to which they belong and of the whole human family. Concern for the child, even before birth, from the first moment of conception and then throughout the years of infancy and youth, is the primary and fundamental test of the relationship of one human being to another.” (St. John Paul II, Address to the General Assembly of the United Nations Oct. 2, 1979)

 

“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” St. Jerome

 

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” St. John Paul II

“Wherever they might wander out in the world, whithersoever they might fare, forgetful of their mother, she felt as though for her their life must still be an action of her life, they must still be as one with herself as they had been when she alone in all the world knew of the new life which lay hidden within and drank of her blood and made her cheeks pale.”  Sigrid Undset

“Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.”

• Saint Augustine