CATHOLIC BOOK STORES

 "Now we ought to make pious books our faithful friends. They tell us of our duties and they give rules of legitimate discipline; they arouse the heavenly voices that are silent in our souls; they chastise the idleness of our designs; they disturb our deceitful tranquillity; they throw into a clear light our less worthy affections that are sometimes disguised; they show the dangers that lie before the imprudent. All these favors they show us with such silent benevolence that we may regard them not only as friends, but as the best of friends. For, indeed, we have them whenever we wish, clinging as it were to our side, ready at any time to assist us in our immediate necessities –whose voice is never harsh, whose advice never partial, and whose words are never timid or deceitful."- Pope St. Pius X, Haerent animo, 4^th August, 1908.