Month: May 2020

We owe all our benefactors gratitude. This virtue consists in a ready attitude of mind to show pleasure and acknowledgment to those from whom we have received favor. We owe gratitude to God, to his most Holy Mother, to our parents, to our teachers and to all those who have favored us in the spiritual and material aspect.

Mary obeyed like a faithful and loyal daughter of St. Anne and St. Joachim, the priests and teachers in the temple, Joseph as her spouse, Jesus as God, Pontiff of pontiffs and King of kings; she obeyed blindly, humbly, willingly, fondly, with pleasure, and heartily as if she were the lowest of all creatures.

“Let us give our parents gratitude, assistance, love and honor: it is a tribute that is due to them in justice” (Francisco Palau OCD)

“To elevate our thoughts to God, is prayer” (Francisco Palau OCD)