Tutonic Knights Quotes

There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

By definition, chaplains minister to the spiritual needs of our men and women in armed services, a vital function that an individual without any inclination toward spirituality would not be able to perform.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

The power of prayer and faith in God is something that has guided so many of us in good times and bad.

I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross - I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It's punk rock.

I was brought up in church, but when I confessed my errors, they put me out.

The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It's also a time of forgiveness of sins, so my hope would be that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe that gave me strength then to get that little part of my life realigned, to not play games about it, to confess it, to ask for forgiveness from God and ask others to forgive me as well and then move on.

The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.

We have souls. And guardian angels. We are never alone. I feel so comforted knowing this.