April 26: Saints Cletus and Marcellinus, Popes and Martyrs
by VP
Posted on Wednesday April 26, 2023 at 01:55AM in Saints
"It is a fundamental maxim of the Christian morality, and a truth which Christ has established in the clearest terms and in innumerable passages of the Gospel, that the cross of sufferings and mortification are the road to eternal bliss. They, therefore, who lead not here a crucified and mortified like are unworthy ever to possess the unspeakable joys of His kingdom. Our Lord, Himself, our model and our head, walked in this path, and His great Apostle puts us in mind that He entered into bliss only by His blood and by the Cross."
Source: Little Pictorial lives of the Saints
