// JavaScript Document var topics = Array(); var sayings = Array(); var stamp = new Date(); var day = stamp.getDay() - 1; topics[0] = 'Holiness of Life'; topics[1] = 'Confidence in God'; topics[2] = 'Crosses and Sufferings'; topics[3] = 'Blessed Virgin Mary'; topics[4] = 'Death, Heaven and Eternity'; topics[5] = 'Gratitude and Appreciation'; topics[6] = 'Collective Themes'; sayings['Holiness of Life'] = Array(); sayings['Confidence in God'] = Array(); sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'] = Array(); sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'] = Array(); sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'] = Array(); sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'] = Array(); sayings['Collective Themes'] = Array(); sayings['Holiness of Life'][0] = 'Religion is our relationship to and happy dependence upon God and neighbor.'; sayings['Holiness of Life'][1] = 'Fidelity to the trifles of life are necessary for perfection--and perfection is no trifle.'; sayings['Holiness of Life'][2] = 'Life is the vestibule to eternity.'; sayings['Holiness of Life'][3] = 'In life we must put on the vestment of virtue.'; sayings['Holiness of Life'][4] = 'We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.'; sayings['Holiness of Life'][5] = 'Man\'s greatness lies in being faithful to the present moment.'; sayings['Holiness of Life'][6] = 'Praying for one anothers conversion - till some day we can sin no more and the good angels will bear us off to eternity - forever really and truly converted.'; sayings['Holiness of Life'][7] = 'Only in heaven can we be satisfied as being fully and really converted.'; sayings['Holiness of Life'][8] = 'Trifles are necessary for perfection - and perfection is no trifle. Perfection is divine.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][0] = 'Confidence in God is the very soul of prayer.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][1] = 'Shake off excessive worry and exercise a little confidence in God\'s merciful providence.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][2] = 'God is watching over us--the Divine Author of all beautiful solicitude.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][3] = 'Courage - do not worry - and you will be privileged if humbly patient.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][4] = 'Oh, what God must have ahead of us if we only leave all to His planning.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][5] = 'God who loves tiny beginnings, will know as He always knows best, how and when to provide developments.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][6] = 'God\'s mercy is above all His works, and His patience is essentially one with His mercy.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][7] = 'In fostering confidence, we greatly eliminate the danger of sadness that frustrates God\'s merciful designs.'; sayings['Confidence in God'][8] = 'How wonderful are all God\'s designs for all who confide in Him. How fortunate, how humbly grateful we ought to be.'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][0] = 'Music of the Cross - how beautiful when mastered.'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][1] = 'Blessed be God in all His designs! And in these designs, not merely including, but positively stressing the humiliations and crisis after crisis He sometimes permits, even while by His grace He fortifies us to profit by them all, more than by anything else, save by the actual reception of the very Sacraments themselves.'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][2] = 'Crosses - the best school wherein to learn appreciation for the love of Jesus crucified, the divine Lover of our souls.'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][3] = 'We want to be Christians - spouses of Jesus - risen and glorified of course, but without getting too near the cross.'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][4] = 'We do well to remember how very short after all, it is till our suffering and our time of merit too will be over. Let us offer everything therefore, to the divine Spouse of our souls, that He may accept it as helping Him to save immortal souls - our own included.'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][5] = 'Patient resignation - at once a great promoter and a fruit of Christian humility.'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][6] = 'How short the joys of earth - and the sorrows too - thank God. What a glorious contrast in heaven.'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][7] = 'Who does not get a taste of the cross one way or other, and if only with resignation: "The bigger the cross the greater the crown."'; sayings['Crosses and Sufferings'][8] = 'How little we realize what a benefit it is that we taste sorrow now and then. Get acquainted with the Queen of Martyrs--God\'s Mother suffering, and you will learn something of how we ought to love sorrow and pains in this life.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][0] = 'Mary gave birth to Christ in a manger at Bethlehem - the rest of us thirty-three years later - under the cross at Calvary.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][1] = 'Shame on us stupid Christians - in the light of Mary the Queen of Martyrs, the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, actually at the foot of the Cross offering herself together with her divine Son - her God and her Son - for the salvation of fallen humanity.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][2] = 'Mary is our Mother because she has given Jesus wholly to us - human and divine.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][3] = 'Perhaps there is no more beautiful example of confidence in God than that of Mar - God\'s living Tabernacle - with St. Joseph, seeking an abode wherein to give us salvation.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][4] = 'Praise be Jesus, and Our Blessed Mother Mary who gave Him to us, and through Him became our own Blessed Mother Mary.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][5] = 'Next to the sorrows of Jesus and next to the inexhaustible love of His Sacred Heart, the sorrows of Mary and the love that filled her soul, surpass comprehension.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][6] = 'There is no one else on earth or in heaven, that God Himself loves as He loves the same His Ever Virgin Immaculate Mother and wishes her to be known.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][7] = 'Learn to know Mary that you may love heaven and heavenly things.'; sayings['Blessed Virgin Mary'][8] = 'Studying Mary\'s life, is learning to love God in His works and His masterpiece.'; sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'][0] = 'Life is the vestibule to eternity.'; sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'][1] = 'Death can be very beautiful - like a wedding - if we make it so.'; sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'][2] = 'Praying for one anothers conversion, till some day we can sin no more, and the good angels will bear us off to eternity, forever really and truly converted.'; sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'][3] = 'Only in heaven can we be satisfied as being fully and really converted.'; sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'][4] = 'Death is the happy transition to the heaven promised abode, where gratitude ripens into perfect love of God and neighbor.'; sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'][5] = 'Death is the climax of all humiliation, when we must finally give up all and turn all over to God.'; sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'][6] = 'I GIVE MY SOUL TO JESUS CHRIST. (Last words of Fr. Solanus)'; sayings['Death, Heaven and Eternity'][7] = 'Heaven - where love of God and our neighbor is the life and very soul of society and association, where hopeful faith has merged into eternal charity.'; sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'][0] = 'Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking rational creature.'; sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'][1] = 'How little it is possible for poor mortal that we are, to appreciate as we ought or to be properly grateful to God and our benefactors this side of heaven.'; sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'][2] = 'How wonderful are all God\'s designs for all who confide in Him. How fortunate, and how humbly grateful we ought to be.'; sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'][3] = 'Poor humanity\'s sorrow - ingratitude.'; sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'][4] = 'Let us thank God ahead of time for whatever He foresees is pleasing to Him, leaving everything at His divine disposal - including - with all its circumstances, when, where and how He may be pleased to dispose the events of our death.'; sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'][5] = 'Would that we were appreciative as we ought to be, how happy we would be simply in our creation and the faculties we are endowed with and the divine promises of eternal reward.'; sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'][6] = 'To know and appreciate is to advance in the one science necessary - sanctity.'; sayings['Gratitude and Appreciation'][7] = 'Be sure, if the enemy of our soul is pleased at anything in us, it is ingratitude of whatever kind. Why? Ingratitude leads to so many breaks with God and our neighbor.'; sayings['Collective Themes'][0] = 'How merciful is the Good God in making us dependent on one another.'; sayings['Collective Themes'][1] = 'Religion is the science of our happy dependence on God and our neighbor. What a vestibule to heaven this world would be if everyone would just be convinced of that simple definition.'; sayings['Collective Themes'][2] = 'What a privilege to do a favor for God in doing for our neighbor. The same too can be said of being appreciative and grateful for such a favor - the Communion of Saints.'; sayings['Collective Themes'][3] = 'It is really a privilege to help one another and to save our neighbor a step - whoever they may be. Since we have nothing of our own, what we do is sure to come back to us again.'; sayings['Collective Themes'][4] = 'If our love of God is really genuine, we would quite naturally love our neighbor as ourselves.'; sayings['Collective Themes'][5] = 'How wonderful\; in the promotion of mutual and common charity, that next to our happy dependence on God Himself, He has made us mutually dependent on one another.'; sayings['Collective Themes'][6] = 'God beholds His works with pleasure as good in His own sight, hence masterpieces each in its own way.'; sayings['Collective Themes'][7] = 'God bless you and multiply His graces and joys in your soul.'; function writeTopic(){ document.write(topics[day]); } function writeFrSolanusPixPlain() { day += 1; document.write(''); }