Tuesday, January 31st
If we want to live a life of love of God, we must not fail in our love towards our neighbor. -St.Therese
Month: January 2017
Monday, January 30th
For, however dark a night may be, something can always be seen, but in true darkness nothing can be seen; and thus in the night of sense there still remains some light, for the understanding and reason remain, and are not blinded. But this spiritual night, which is faith, deprives…
Sunday, January 29th
And even in sickness itself and these other occasions the prayer is genuine when it comes from a soul that loves to offer the sickness up and accept what is happening and be conformed to it and to the other thousand things that happen. -St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, January 28th
All the things that God disposes are as so many steps of that mysterious stairway that leads us to the eternal possession of our much desired end (eternal life). For this let us accept everything with indifference from the hand of God, and we shall be happy. – St. Teresa…
Friday, January 27th
How serious life is: each minute is given us in order to “root” us deeper in God, as Saint Paul says, so the resemblance to our divine Model may be more striking, the union more intimate. But to accomplish this plan, which is that of God Himself, here is the…
Thursday, January 26th
Hence, don’t pay any attention to the fears they raise or to the picture of the dangers they paint for you…Should anyone tell you that prayer is dangerous, consider him the real danger and run from him. Don’t forget this counsel, for perhaps you will need it. There will be…
Wednesday, January 25th
Now I ask You, Lord, not to abandon me at any time in my recollection, for I am a squanderer of my soul. – St. John of the Cross
Tuesday, January 24th
I find that trials help very much in detaching us from this earth. They make us look higher than this world. Here below, nothing can satisfy us. We cannot enjoy a little rest except in being ready to do God’s will. – St. Therese
Monday, January 23rd
I imagine her passing by, so beautiful, so calm and so majestic, so absorbed in recollection of the Word of God within her. Like Him, her prayer was always this: “Ecce. Here I am.” Who? “The servant of the Lord,” the lowliest of His creatures: she, His Mother! Her humility…
Sunday, January 22nd
All Three Persons of the Holy Trinity dwell in the soul that loves Them ‘in truth’ … keeping Their word. And when the soul has understood its riches, whatever natural or supernatural joy may come to it from creatures or even from God, only calls it to enter within itself,…
Monday, January 30th
For, however dark a night may be, something can always be seen, but in true darkness nothing can be seen; and thus in the night of sense there still remains some light, for the understanding and reason remain, and are not blinded. But this spiritual night, which is faith, deprives…
Sunday, January 29th
And even in sickness itself and these other occasions the prayer is genuine when it comes from a soul that loves to offer the sickness up and accept what is happening and be conformed to it and to the other thousand things that happen. -St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, January 28th
All the things that God disposes are as so many steps of that mysterious stairway that leads us to the eternal possession of our much desired end (eternal life). For this let us accept everything with indifference from the hand of God, and we shall be happy. – St. Teresa…
Friday, January 27th
How serious life is: each minute is given us in order to “root” us deeper in God, as Saint Paul says, so the resemblance to our divine Model may be more striking, the union more intimate. But to accomplish this plan, which is that of God Himself, here is the…
Thursday, January 26th
Hence, don’t pay any attention to the fears they raise or to the picture of the dangers they paint for you…Should anyone tell you that prayer is dangerous, consider him the real danger and run from him. Don’t forget this counsel, for perhaps you will need it. There will be…
Wednesday, January 25th
Now I ask You, Lord, not to abandon me at any time in my recollection, for I am a squanderer of my soul. – St. John of the Cross
Tuesday, January 24th
I find that trials help very much in detaching us from this earth. They make us look higher than this world. Here below, nothing can satisfy us. We cannot enjoy a little rest except in being ready to do God’s will. – St. Therese
Monday, January 23rd
I imagine her passing by, so beautiful, so calm and so majestic, so absorbed in recollection of the Word of God within her. Like Him, her prayer was always this: “Ecce. Here I am.” Who? “The servant of the Lord,” the lowliest of His creatures: she, His Mother! Her humility…
Sunday, January 22nd
All Three Persons of the Holy Trinity dwell in the soul that loves Them ‘in truth’ … keeping Their word. And when the soul has understood its riches, whatever natural or supernatural joy may come to it from creatures or even from God, only calls it to enter within itself,…