NEWSLETTER INSERTS - ON THE LORD'S PRAYER AND QUOTES FROM ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA AND ST ALPHONSUS LIGUOURI

‘The Lord's Prayer is truly the summary of the whole Gospel'.

Church Father, Tertullian.

‘Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer’.

St Augustine

‘The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers.... In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things, but also in what order we should desire them’.

St Thomas Aquinas

'We must always remind ourselves that we are pilgrims until we arrive at our heavenly homeland, and we must not let our affections delay us in the roadside inns and lands through which we pass, otherwise we will forget our destination and lose interest in our final goal.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

'We need to train ourselves to be indifferent in our attitude to all created things, in all that is permitted to our free will and not forbidden; so that on our part, we do not set our hearts on good health rather than bad, riches rather than poverty, honour rather than dishonour, a long life rather than a short one, and so in all the rest'.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

‘One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity’.

St Ignatius Loyola

‘God wills that they, as his friends, should intercede for us, and by their merits and prayers obtain graces for us which we do not of ourselves deserve’.

St Alphonsus Liguori

‘Oh, what a beautiful delight to be before an altar with faith… to represent our wants to him, as a friend does to a friend in whom he places all his trust'

St Alphonsus Liguori