Tuesday, July 11th

This is a test to discern the true lover of God.  Is he satisfied with anything less than God?  For the satisfaction of the heart is not found in possessions but in detachment from all things and poverty of spirit. -St. John of the Cross

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Sunday, July 9th

“What is grace” I asked God. And He said, “All that happens.” Then He added, when I looked perplexed,“Could not lovers say that every moment in their Beloved’s arms was grace? Existence is my arms, though I well understand how one can turn away from me until the heart has…

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Friday, July 7th

Though I still had as keen an eye for the human weaknesses of others, I no longer made it an instrument for striking them at their most vulnerable point, but, rather, for protecting them. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)

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Thursday, July 6th

As the soul abode in solitude, abandoning all created help and consolation in order to obtain fellowship and union with the Beloved, it deserved thereby the peace of solitude in the Beloved, in whom it reposes alone, undisturbed by any anxiety. -St. John of the Cross

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