Friday, June 10th
Because the light and wisdom of this contemplation is very bright and pure, and the soul in which it shines is dark and impure, a person will be deeply afflicted on receiving it. – St. John of the Cross
Month: June 2022
Thursday, June 9th
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. – St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, June 8th
I have made more acts of faith during the past year than in all the rest of my life. Whenever my enemy provokes me to combat, I try to behave like a gallant soldier. Aware that a duel is an act of cowardice, I turn my back on the foe…
Tuesday, June 7th
It is in prayer that the soul learns to know Jesus and thus to love him. Since love cannot be satisfied with difference but with equality, the result is union in similarity. – St. Teresa de los Andes
Monday, June 6th
In truth, it is impossible that a heart which can find rest only in contemplation of the Tabernacle-and yours is such, you tell me- could so far offend Our Lord as not to be able to receive Him. . . . What does offend Jesus, what wounds Him to the…
Sunday, June 5th
Along how many paths, in how many ways, by how many methods You show us love! -St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, June 4th
You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, or even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them. – St. Therese
Friday, June 3rd
Knowing, O my God, that my sins made Your cross so heavy that You had to sink beneath it, this makes me even more convinced that I must carry my cross together with You and that I should not shy away from it, even should I sink beneath its weight.…
Thursday, June 2nd
Oh, ask Him that I may be equal to my vocation and not abuse the graces He lavishes on me; if you knew how fearful that makes me sometimes…Then I cast myself on Him whom Saint John calls ‘the Faithful and True,’ and I beg Him to be Himself my…
Wednesday, June 1st
Our Lord kept nothing for Himself when He loved me from the wood of the Cross. And will I give myself to Him by halves? -St. Teresa of the Andes
Thursday, June 9th
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. – St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, June 8th
I have made more acts of faith during the past year than in all the rest of my life. Whenever my enemy provokes me to combat, I try to behave like a gallant soldier. Aware that a duel is an act of cowardice, I turn my back on the foe…
Tuesday, June 7th
It is in prayer that the soul learns to know Jesus and thus to love him. Since love cannot be satisfied with difference but with equality, the result is union in similarity. – St. Teresa de los Andes
Monday, June 6th
In truth, it is impossible that a heart which can find rest only in contemplation of the Tabernacle-and yours is such, you tell me- could so far offend Our Lord as not to be able to receive Him. . . . What does offend Jesus, what wounds Him to the…
Sunday, June 5th
Along how many paths, in how many ways, by how many methods You show us love! -St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, June 4th
You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, or even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them. – St. Therese
Friday, June 3rd
Knowing, O my God, that my sins made Your cross so heavy that You had to sink beneath it, this makes me even more convinced that I must carry my cross together with You and that I should not shy away from it, even should I sink beneath its weight.…
Thursday, June 2nd
Oh, ask Him that I may be equal to my vocation and not abuse the graces He lavishes on me; if you knew how fearful that makes me sometimes…Then I cast myself on Him whom Saint John calls ‘the Faithful and True,’ and I beg Him to be Himself my…
Wednesday, June 1st
Our Lord kept nothing for Himself when He loved me from the wood of the Cross. And will I give myself to Him by halves? -St. Teresa of the Andes