I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.