Saint Josemaria
Quotations from Saint Josemaria

Loving the Church

Tags: Faithfulness, Church, Pope
Meditate on this frequently: I am a Catholic, a child of Christ’s Church. He brought me to birth in a home that is his, without my doing anything to deserve it.
My God, how much I owe you!
The Forge, 16

What joy to be able to say with all the fervour of my soul: I love my Mother the holy Church!
The Way, 518

Help me with your prayer. I want all of us within Holy Church to feel that we are members of the same body, as the Apostle asks of us. I want us to be vividly and profoundly aware, without any lack of interest, of the joys, the troubles, the progress of our Mother who is one, holy, catholic, apostolic, Roman.
I want us to live as one, each of us identified with the cares of the others, and all identified with Christ.
The Forge, 630

Pray to God that in the Holy Church, our Mother, the hearts of all may be one heart, as they were in the earliest times of Christianity; so that the words of Scripture may be truly fulfilled until the end of the ages: Multitudinis autem credentium erat cor unum et anima una — the company of the faithful were of one heart and one soul.
I am saying this to you in all seriousness: may this holy unity not come to any harm through you. Take it to your prayer.
The Forge, 632

Forget about yourself. May your ambition be to live for your brothers alone, for souls, for the Church; in one word, for God.
Furrow, 630

If you have not the highest reverence for the priesthood and for the religious state, it is not true that you love God’s Church.
The Way, 526

You must love, venerate, pray and mortify yourself for the Pope, and do so with greater affection each day. For he is the foundation stone of the Church and, throughout the centuries, right to the end of time, he carries out among men that task of sanctifying and governing which Jesus entrusted to Peter.
The Forge, 134

Jesus is our model. Let us imitate him.
Let us imitate him by serving the Holy Church and all mankind.
The Forge, 138