Wednesday, October 12th
If God is in us, and if God is love, it is inevitable that we be brothers; because love of our neighbor is the measure of our love for God. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Year: 2016
Tuesday, October 11th
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul. My mission in heaven will be to draw souls, helping them to go out of themselves to cling to God, with a spontaneous, love-filled action, and to keep them in that great interior silence…
Monday, October 10th
You do wrong to find fault, and to try to make everyone see things from your point of view. We desire to be as little children. Now, little children do not know what is best. Everything is right in their eyes. Let us imitate them. -St. Therese
Sunday, October 9th
How amazing and pitiful it is that the soul be so utterly weak and impure that the hand of God, though light and gentle, should feel too heavy and contrary. For the hand of God does not press down or weigh on the soul, but only touches it; and this…
Saturday, October 8th
When I think that previously I was envious of Mary Magdalene for having had Jesus in her home so many times, for having listened to Him, I become ashamed; for He did not abandon our earth. He remains in the tabernacle. There I look at Him in faith and listen…
Friday, October 7th
David also said that clouds and darkness are near God and surround him [Ps. 18:11], not because this is true in itself, but because it appears thus to our weak intellects, which in being unable to attain so bright a light are blinded and darkened. -St. John of the Cross
Thursday, October 6th
It also happens very quickly and ineffably that God will show within Himself a truth that seems to leave in obscurity all those that are in creatures, and one understands very clearly that God alone is Truth, unable to lie. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, October 5th
All passes! In the evening of life, love alone abides … all must be for love, one must without ceasing, forget oneself … Oh, if only I had always done so! -Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Tuesay, October 4th
You do not have enough trust. You have too much fear before the good God. I can assure you that He is grieved over this. – St. Therese
Monday, October 3rd
He reaches out His hand to us, the very moment He sees us fully convinced of our nothingness, and hears us cry out: ‘My foot stumbles Lord, but Your mercy is my strength.’Ps. 93: 18. Should we attempt great things, however, even under pretext of zeal, He deserts us. So…
Tuesday, October 11th
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul. My mission in heaven will be to draw souls, helping them to go out of themselves to cling to God, with a spontaneous, love-filled action, and to keep them in that great interior silence…
Monday, October 10th
You do wrong to find fault, and to try to make everyone see things from your point of view. We desire to be as little children. Now, little children do not know what is best. Everything is right in their eyes. Let us imitate them. -St. Therese
Sunday, October 9th
How amazing and pitiful it is that the soul be so utterly weak and impure that the hand of God, though light and gentle, should feel too heavy and contrary. For the hand of God does not press down or weigh on the soul, but only touches it; and this…
Saturday, October 8th
When I think that previously I was envious of Mary Magdalene for having had Jesus in her home so many times, for having listened to Him, I become ashamed; for He did not abandon our earth. He remains in the tabernacle. There I look at Him in faith and listen…
Friday, October 7th
David also said that clouds and darkness are near God and surround him [Ps. 18:11], not because this is true in itself, but because it appears thus to our weak intellects, which in being unable to attain so bright a light are blinded and darkened. -St. John of the Cross
Thursday, October 6th
It also happens very quickly and ineffably that God will show within Himself a truth that seems to leave in obscurity all those that are in creatures, and one understands very clearly that God alone is Truth, unable to lie. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, October 5th
All passes! In the evening of life, love alone abides … all must be for love, one must without ceasing, forget oneself … Oh, if only I had always done so! -Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Tuesay, October 4th
You do not have enough trust. You have too much fear before the good God. I can assure you that He is grieved over this. – St. Therese
Monday, October 3rd
He reaches out His hand to us, the very moment He sees us fully convinced of our nothingness, and hears us cry out: ‘My foot stumbles Lord, but Your mercy is my strength.’Ps. 93: 18. Should we attempt great things, however, even under pretext of zeal, He deserts us. So…