Daily Mass: Sermon Feast of St. Margaret Mary de Pazzi – Fr. Ermatinger
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to Mark: Christus Remunerator, Ary Scheffer, 1847-1858 The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house. Standing outside, they sent word to him and called him. A crowd seated around him told him, "Your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside asking for you." But he said to them in reply, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" And looking [...]
Sermón de la Fiesta de Nuestra Señora Auxiliadora de los Cristianos — Padre Ermatinger
Sermón de la Fiesta de Nuestra Señora Auxiliadora de los Cristianos Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora Sin Transcripción -- Padre Ermatinger
Venerable Louis of Granada On Overcoming Sin
Note: It seems that this saying is a commonplace that dates back to antiquity. A close variant can be found in Cicero's De Or. 2.52.209 "Men envy chiefly their equals or inferiors when they perceive themselves left behind, and are mortified that the others have outstripped them; but there is often a strong unfavourable feeling towards superiors, which is the stronger if they are intolerably arrogant, and transgress the fair bounds of common justice [...]