Sunday, January 21st
The cataracts of heaven are always open to send down grace, but we do not have the mouth of our desire open to receive it. -St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
Month: January 2018
Saturday, January 20th
…not with the noise of words but with longing that He hears us. – St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, January 19th
If a person is not quite blind, that person often refuses to be led by a guide. Since he sees a little, he thinks it is best to go in whatever direction he can distinguish because he sees no better direction. So he can lead astray a guide who sees…
Thursday, January 18th
He hollows out abysses in my soul, abysses He alone can fill. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Wednesday, January 17th
I only want you to be warned, that if you would progress a long way on this road and ascend to the Mansions of your desire, the important thing is not to think much, but to love much. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, January 16th
I want to point out to souls the means that I have always found so completely successful, to tell them there is only one thing to do here below-to offer Our Lord the flowers of little sacrifices and win Him by our caresses. That is how I have won Him,…
Monday, January 15th
There is no room for the boundless gifts of God save in a heart that is empty and solitary, and they enter none but such a heart. – St. John of the Cross
Sunday, January 14th
Have great confidence, for it is necessary not to hold back one’s desires, but to believe in God that if we try we shall little by little, even though it may not be soon, reach the state the saints did with His help. For if they had never determined to…
Saturday, January 13th
If the soul then does as much as it can on its own part, namely if it succeeds in being empty and dispossessed of all things, it is impossible that God should fail to do His part by communicating Himself to it, at least in secret silence: more impossible even…
Friday, January 12th
We have to be on our guard against wanting to judge for ourselves what point we have reached in the way of pure love. Only God knows this. What we recognize of ourselves, also of our faults and failings, is only the illuminated part on the surface. The deep roots…
Saturday, January 20th
…not with the noise of words but with longing that He hears us. – St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, January 19th
If a person is not quite blind, that person often refuses to be led by a guide. Since he sees a little, he thinks it is best to go in whatever direction he can distinguish because he sees no better direction. So he can lead astray a guide who sees…
Thursday, January 18th
He hollows out abysses in my soul, abysses He alone can fill. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Wednesday, January 17th
I only want you to be warned, that if you would progress a long way on this road and ascend to the Mansions of your desire, the important thing is not to think much, but to love much. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, January 16th
I want to point out to souls the means that I have always found so completely successful, to tell them there is only one thing to do here below-to offer Our Lord the flowers of little sacrifices and win Him by our caresses. That is how I have won Him,…
Monday, January 15th
There is no room for the boundless gifts of God save in a heart that is empty and solitary, and they enter none but such a heart. – St. John of the Cross
Sunday, January 14th
Have great confidence, for it is necessary not to hold back one’s desires, but to believe in God that if we try we shall little by little, even though it may not be soon, reach the state the saints did with His help. For if they had never determined to…
Saturday, January 13th
If the soul then does as much as it can on its own part, namely if it succeeds in being empty and dispossessed of all things, it is impossible that God should fail to do His part by communicating Himself to it, at least in secret silence: more impossible even…
Friday, January 12th
We have to be on our guard against wanting to judge for ourselves what point we have reached in the way of pure love. Only God knows this. What we recognize of ourselves, also of our faults and failings, is only the illuminated part on the surface. The deep roots…