Wednesday, April 20th
I repeat, it is necessary that your foundation consist of more than prayer and contemplation. If you do not strive for the virtues and practice them, you will always be dwarfs. – St. Teresa of Avila
Month: April 2022
Tuesday, April 19th
The Lord is patient and has great mercy. In His economy He knows how to profit even by our faults, if we deposit them on His altar. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, April 18th
The safest way is to want only what God wants. He knows more than we ourselves do, and He loves us. Let us place ourselves in His hands so that His will may be done in us, and we cannot err if with a determined will we always maintain this…
Sunday, April 17th
To die with Christ on the cross, to rise again with Him, is translated into reality for all the faithful and especially for every priest in the sacrifice of the Mass. In those who celebrate it or participate in it with lively faith, is reenacted what happened on Golgotha. –…
Saturday, April 16th
At the moment the soul recollects itself in the presence of God, it enters on an act of general, loving, peaceful, and tranquil knowledge, drinking wisdom and love and delight. – St. John of the Cross
Friday, April 15th
To make room for God in one’s own soul means to undertake struggle without quarter against one’s own nature, to take up one’s own cross and to abandon oneself to crucifixion. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Thursday, April 14th
The work of salvation takes place in obscurity and stillness. In the heart’s quiet dialogue with God the living building blocks out of which the kingdom of God grows are prepared, the chosen instruments for the construction forged. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Wednesday, April 13th
For, as I have said, God now sees that they have grown a little, and are becoming strong enough to lay aside their swaddling clothes and be taken from the gentle breast; so He sets them down from His arms and teaches them to walk on their own feet; which…
Tuesday, April 12th
The entire trinity rests within us, this whole mystery that will be our vision in Heaven. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Monday, April 11th
Since Jesus has gone to Heaven, I can follow Him only by the traces He has left. But how radiant and how fragrant these traces are! I have only to glance at the Holy Gospels and at once I breathe the fragrance of His life and know which way to…
Tuesday, April 19th
The Lord is patient and has great mercy. In His economy He knows how to profit even by our faults, if we deposit them on His altar. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, April 18th
The safest way is to want only what God wants. He knows more than we ourselves do, and He loves us. Let us place ourselves in His hands so that His will may be done in us, and we cannot err if with a determined will we always maintain this…
Sunday, April 17th
To die with Christ on the cross, to rise again with Him, is translated into reality for all the faithful and especially for every priest in the sacrifice of the Mass. In those who celebrate it or participate in it with lively faith, is reenacted what happened on Golgotha. –…
Saturday, April 16th
At the moment the soul recollects itself in the presence of God, it enters on an act of general, loving, peaceful, and tranquil knowledge, drinking wisdom and love and delight. – St. John of the Cross
Friday, April 15th
To make room for God in one’s own soul means to undertake struggle without quarter against one’s own nature, to take up one’s own cross and to abandon oneself to crucifixion. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Thursday, April 14th
The work of salvation takes place in obscurity and stillness. In the heart’s quiet dialogue with God the living building blocks out of which the kingdom of God grows are prepared, the chosen instruments for the construction forged. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Wednesday, April 13th
For, as I have said, God now sees that they have grown a little, and are becoming strong enough to lay aside their swaddling clothes and be taken from the gentle breast; so He sets them down from His arms and teaches them to walk on their own feet; which…
Tuesday, April 12th
The entire trinity rests within us, this whole mystery that will be our vision in Heaven. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Monday, April 11th
Since Jesus has gone to Heaven, I can follow Him only by the traces He has left. But how radiant and how fragrant these traces are! I have only to glance at the Holy Gospels and at once I breathe the fragrance of His life and know which way to…