Catholic Fire

Rosalind Moss, an author, who is an Eternal Word Television Network TV host and one of the network's radio hosts, announced Feb. 13 that she is starting a new community of sisters in the Archdiocese of St. Louis with the permission of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke. The new group will be called the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope, she told an audience of more than 200 at the Catholic Breakfast Club of Sacramento. Moss, 65, said her group will be an evangelistic, teaching community following in the spiritual tradition of St. Francis de Sales. Raised a conservative Jew, Moss spent 18 years as an evangelical Protestant before becoming a Catholic in 1995. Get the story here.

"The state of marriage is one which requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise of mortification." "Married people have need for two kinds of chastity; the one for absolute abstinence, when they are separated . . . the other for moderation." ~ St. Francis de Sales

"How beautiful it is to behold a person destitute of all attachment, ready for any act of virtue or charity, gentle to all, indifferent as to any employment, serene in consolations and tribulations, and wholly content if only the will of God is done!" ~ St. Francis de Sales

"When you cannot stand, He will bear you in His arms." ~St. Francis de Sales

The First Thursday in Lent Lenten Reflection for Today by Mother Angelica Quote for the Day: "Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them." ~ St. Francis de Sales Today in History 589 Saint David of Wales , bishop and confessor, patron of Wales, died (b. ca. 500). 713 Suitbert, Apostle of Frisia and a Northumbrian priest, died. 1547 The Council of Trent reaffirmed the Roman Catholic teaching on Confirmation as a sacrament. 1958 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch , is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia . Birthdays 1474 - Angela Merici , Italian nun (d. 1540 ) 1732 - William Cushing , 2nd (confirmed) Chief Justice of the United States . (d. 1810 ) 1810 - Frédéric Chopin , Polish-French composer and pianist (d. 1849 ) 1904 - Glenn Miller , American bandleader (d. 1944 ) 1910 - David Niven , English actor (d . 1983 ) 1912 - Gerald Emmett C...

We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to color everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mold, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life. ~St Francis de Sales

"You should be like a little child who while it knows that its mother is holding its sleeve walks boldly and runs all around without being distressed at a little fall or stumble; after all, it is as yet rather unsteady on its legs. In the same way, as long as you realize that God is holding onto you by your will and resolution to serve Him, go on boldly and do not be upset by your little setbacks and fails; there is no need to be put out by this provided you throw yourself into His arms from time to time and kiss Him with the kiss of charity. Go on joyfully and with your heart as open and widely trustful as possible; and if you cannot always be joyful, be at least brave and confident. ~ St, Francis De Sales