Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.

The differences among persons belong to God’s plan, who wills that we should need one another. These differences should encourage charity.

God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.

Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you.

In the words of St. Augustine, “I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.

God is to be loved above all things, and whatever separates us from God is therefore to be hated above all things.

The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself.

All men are bound to seek the truth, especially in what concerns God and his Church, and to embrace it and hold on to it as they come to know it.

Between God and us there is an immeasurable inequality, for we have received everything from him, our Creator.

The word Rosary comes from the Latin rosarium which literally means a rose garden.