The school of Christ is the school of love. In the last day, when the general examination takes place… Love will be the whole syllabus.
Saint Robert Bellarmine
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Robert Bellarmine
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Who can read Cyprian attentively without immediately longing for martyrdom? Who can assiduously turn over the pages of Augustine without learning the most profound humility? Who can open Jerome frequently without beginning to love virginity and fasting? The writings of the saints breathe religion, chastity, integrity, and charity.”
~ St. Robert Bellarmine
God loved humankind into existence. Mary, created in original innocence, chose with fully informed consent not darkened by original sin, to love God perfectly in perpetual virginity, before herself.
Emptied of self, Mary was full of grace from the very first moment of her existence, so that Mary’s Immaculate Conception was a result of her embrace of God’s holy love.
Mary became the daughter of the Most High God, Spouse of the Holy Spirit and Mother of Jesus Christ, Second Sovereign Person of the Infinite Supreme Sovereign Being, the Blessed Trinity.