Quotes from Mike Aquilina

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.

Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.

Christians can influence the world for the better again. But it will mean making a commitment to stand by a worldview that current society often rejects and ridicules.

Am I ungrudgingly joyous,

Always be a bridge, not a wall or a weapon.

These days, most people know the Holy Grail from books like The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail, or from Monty Python. What we've lost in these pop culture transformations of the Grail is what made it holy in the first place. That original meaning is what this book seeks to unfold.

Constantine proclaimed that everyone should be allowed to live according to his conscience, without fear.13

Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves. (1 Corinthians 11:27-29)

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28).