Tuesday, February 18th

There are others who are vexed with themselves when they observe their own imperfectness, and display an impatience that is not humility; so impatient are they about this that they would fain be saints in a day. -St. John of the Cross

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Monday, February 17th

Divine spirit, divine life, divine love means this: he who does the will of God, knows God and loves Him. In fact, at the moment in which we do what God asks, with interior dedication, divine life becomes our life, God is found within ourselves. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith…

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Sunday, February 16th

I know, too, that our progress has nothing to do with the body, which is the thing that matters least. What the journey which I am referring to demands is great humility, and it is the lack of this, I think, if you see what I mean, which prevents us…

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Wednesday, February 12th

In this interior union God communicates himself to the soul with such genuine love that neither the affection of a mother, with which she so tenderly caresses her child, nor a brother’s love, nor any friendship is comparable to it. – St. John of the Cross

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Sunday, February 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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Saturday, February 8th

I want to work for the glory of God, and for that I must be wholly filled with Him.  Then I will be all powerful: one look, one desire will become an irresistible prayer that can obtain everything. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

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