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
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
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.…
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…
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
As soon as you try to please Him in everything and have an unshakable trust He purifies you every moment in His love and He lets no sin remain. -St. Therese
The cross…It is the path from earth to heaven. It will lift one who embraces it in faith, love, and hope into the bosom of the Trinity. -St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
As soon as God sees that, having co-operated with His initial grace, we are capable of receiving His grace, His free goodness is ready to bestow upon us the gift that makes us resemble Him. Our aptitude to receive grace depends upon the interior integrity wherewith we move towards Him,…
Many of these beginners have also at times great spiritual avarice. They will be found to be discontented with the spirituality which God gives them; and they are very disconsolate and querulous because they find not in spiritual things the consolation that they would desire. – St. John of the…
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. -St. Teresa of Avila
Oh, how sweet Your presence will be to me, You Who are the supreme good! I must draw near You in silence pleased to unite me to You in … I rejoice in Your arms. Now I ask You, Lord, do not abandon me at any time in my recollection,…