Wednesday, April 10th
It is a serious evil to have more regard for God’s blessings than for God Himself: prayer and detachment. – St. John of the Cross
Month: April 2019
Tuesday, April 9th
Do not let your weakness make you unhappy. When, in the morning, we feel no courage or strength for the practice of virtue, it is really a grace: it is the time to ‘lay the axe to the root of the trees,’ Matt. 3:10 relying upon Jesus alone. -St. Therese
Monday, April 8th
It is in the effects and deeds following afterward that one discerns the true value of prayer. -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, April 7th
How your life would be transformed if you were frequently with Jesus as with a friend! Do you perchance think that Jesus will not receive you as such? If you think such a thing, you would demonstrate that you do not know Him. He is all tenderness, all love for…
Saturday, April 6th
If the soul does not withdraw from its Spouse through a very culpable boldness, He will protect it from the whole world and even from all hell. -St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, April 5th
Those who now desire to question God or receive some vision or revelation are guilty not only of foolish behavior but of also offending Him by not fixing their eyes entirely on Christ and by living with the desire for some other novelty. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, April 4th
We do not climb Calvary as heroes, like the champion who has won the race. A saint is not a hero: he is someone filled with God and with God’s strength. – Ven. Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus
Wednesday, April 3rd
I invited the whole earth to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I invited the entire sea to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I called him, invited ungrateful man, to bless you, to serve you, to praise and to…
Tuesday, April 2nd
It has not entered into the heart of man what God is like. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, April 1st
Or look upon Him bending under the weight of the Cross and not even allowed to take breath: He will look upon you with His lovely and compassionate eyes, full of tears, and in comforting your grief will forget His own because you are bearing Him company in order to…
Tuesday, April 9th
Do not let your weakness make you unhappy. When, in the morning, we feel no courage or strength for the practice of virtue, it is really a grace: it is the time to ‘lay the axe to the root of the trees,’ Matt. 3:10 relying upon Jesus alone. -St. Therese
Monday, April 8th
It is in the effects and deeds following afterward that one discerns the true value of prayer. -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, April 7th
How your life would be transformed if you were frequently with Jesus as with a friend! Do you perchance think that Jesus will not receive you as such? If you think such a thing, you would demonstrate that you do not know Him. He is all tenderness, all love for…
Saturday, April 6th
If the soul does not withdraw from its Spouse through a very culpable boldness, He will protect it from the whole world and even from all hell. -St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, April 5th
Those who now desire to question God or receive some vision or revelation are guilty not only of foolish behavior but of also offending Him by not fixing their eyes entirely on Christ and by living with the desire for some other novelty. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, April 4th
We do not climb Calvary as heroes, like the champion who has won the race. A saint is not a hero: he is someone filled with God and with God’s strength. – Ven. Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus
Wednesday, April 3rd
I invited the whole earth to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I invited the entire sea to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I called him, invited ungrateful man, to bless you, to serve you, to praise and to…
Tuesday, April 2nd
It has not entered into the heart of man what God is like. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, April 1st
Or look upon Him bending under the weight of the Cross and not even allowed to take breath: He will look upon you with His lovely and compassionate eyes, full of tears, and in comforting your grief will forget His own because you are bearing Him company in order to…