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Our Lady did not have that downward pull that we have, but she still had choices, and she could have wrong ones or right ones.
We must grow in wisdom, as Christ did, by deepening our understanding of the sacramental life through the very substance of every day.
By their relentless practicality the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius shove the searcher into the center of the Gospel and leave him alone there with Christ, with the triune God who speaks to him.
The object which Christ contemplates, which he loves in the Church, is not human nature simply, but human nature illuminated and renovated by his own supernatural power.
We are far too apt to look upon forgiveness as a merely negative thing.
Crosses are the great means which God employs to destroy self-love in us and to increase and purify his love within us.
When he sees your earnestness in seeking him, then he appears and manifests himself to you.