For Teresa of the Andes, "God is infinite joy. This is the new hymn of Christian love that rises spontaneously from the soul of this young Chilean girl."
Quote of the day, 12 December: St. John Paul II
Quote of the day, 25 November: St. John Paul II
Today we dare to introduce to the world this cloistered religious who led a "life hidden with Christ in God" because she is a witness who is bursting with the joy that is rooted and grounded in love.
Quote of the day, 16 November: St. John Paul II
John of the Cross is a model of a Christian in dialogue, a man of cultural breadth who expresses well that openness proper to the men and women of his native region of Castilla
God’s Mercy is Greater: St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus on Purgatory
"You do a great injury to God in believing you're going to Purgatory. When we love, we can't go there."
Quote of the day, 13 November: St. John Paul II
The beatification of Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified, which has gathered you here in Rome from all the countries of the Near East, has surely been for all of you a great moment of joy
Quote of the day, 8 November: St. John Paul II
Today we dare to introduce to the world this cloistered nun who lived a "life hidden in Christ with God" because she is a shining witness of the joy of being rooted and grounded in love.
Quote of the day, 4 November: St. John Paul II
In a cosmic embrace that in Christ unites heaven and earth, John of the Cross was able to express the fullness of Christian life
Quote of the day, 22 October: St. John Paul II
The sign of the Scapular points to an effective synthesis of Marian spirituality, which nourishes the devotion of believers and makes them sensitive to the Virgin Mother's loving presence in their lives.
Quote of the day, 19 October: St. John Paul II
Excerpts from the Apostolic Letter Divini Amoris Scientia concerning the timeliness and particular impact of the doctrine and message of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Quote of the day, 9 August: St. John Paul II
For the love of God and man, once again I raise an anguished cry: May such criminal deeds never be repeated against any ethnic group, against any race, in any corner of this world!
Quote of the day, 23 July: St. John Paul II
She who belongs to the "weak and poor of the Lord" bears in herself, like no other member of the human race, that "glory of grace" which the Father "has bestowed on us in his beloved Son"
Quote of the day, 17 June: St. John Paul II
As I return from my pilgrimage to Lisieux, allow me also to invoke the little Carmelite, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, who has many close ties with Vietnam
Quote of the day, 12 June: François-Marie Léthel, O.C.D.
"Totus Tuus!" Two words that are a prayer addressed to Jesus through Mary, in her Immaculate Heart
Quote of the day, 12 May: Sister Lucia
A surprise phone call to the Prioress on the morning of the 12th came... delivering an order from the Holy Father for Sister Lucia
Quote of the day, 10 May: St. John Paul II
She found the strength not to betray priests and friends of the community, facing death with integrity
Quote of the day, 11 April: St. John Paul II
At the summit, as the source and goal, is the merciful love of the three Divine Persons, as she expresses it, especially in her Act of Oblation to Merciful Love
Quote of the day, 3 April: St. John Paul II
In the hopeful and loving faith, the night begins to know “the rising of the dawn”
Light of Christ for the Church in Chile — St. John Paul II
Light of Christ for all the Church in Chile: this is Sister Teresa of the Andes, Teresa de Jesús, a Discalced Carmelite nun and the first fruits of holiness of the Teresian Carmel in Latin America
Quote of the day, 30 January: St. John Paul II
The Virgin Mary is a model, the faithful accomplisher of God's will, for those who do not accept passively the adverse circumstances of personal and social life
Quote of the day, 11 December: St. John Paul II
St Maravillas of Jesus was motivated by a heroic faith that shaped her response to an austere vocation
Carmelite Quotes 
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