Thursday, December 1st
Make my soul…Your cherished dwelling place, Your home of rest. Let me never leave You there alone, but keep me there all absorbed in You, in living faith, adoring You. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Year: 2022
Wednesday, November 30th
Each day Jesus nourishes me with His adorable Body and, together with this delicate food, I hear a sweet and soft voice like the harmonious echoes of the angels of heaven. This a the voice that guides me, that loosens the sails of the ship of my soul. And in…
Tuesday, November 29th
… nothing good in us springs from ourselves but comes from the waters of grace near which the soul remains like a tree planted beside a river, and from that Sun which gives life to our works. She realized this so vividly that on seeing any good deed performed by…
Monday, November 28th
The soul that leaves the house of its own will, and abandons the bed of its own satisfaction, will find the Divine Wisdom, the Son of God, the Bridegroom, waiting at the door without. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, November 27th
I know, too, that our bodies are not the chief factors in the work we have before us; they are accessory: extreme humility is the principal point. It is the want of this, I believe, that stops people’s progress. It may seem that we have made but little way: we…
Saturday, November 26th
You must needs apply your mind to him alone and in him alone content yourself, that in him you may find all consolation. Although God is always with us, if we set our hearts on other things besides him we cannot be at peace. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, November 25th
Frequent combing gives the hair more luster and makes it easier to comb; a soul that frequently examines its thoughts, words, and deeds, which are its hair, doing all things for the love of God, will have lustrous hair. Then the Bridegroom will look on the neck of the bride…
Thursday, November 24th
He does not want us to love Him for His gifts, but for Himself alone… He is so beautiful, so ravishing even when He remains silent, even when He hides Himself. – St. Therese
Wednesday, November 23rd
The strength of the soul consists in its faculties, passions and desires, all of which are governed by the will. Now when these faculties, passions and desires are directed by the will toward God, and turned away from all that is not God, then the strength of the soul is…
Tuesday, November 22nd
Our Lord’s love is revealed as perfectly in the most simple soul that resists His grace in nothing as in the most excellent soul… -St. Therese
Wednesday, November 30th
Each day Jesus nourishes me with His adorable Body and, together with this delicate food, I hear a sweet and soft voice like the harmonious echoes of the angels of heaven. This a the voice that guides me, that loosens the sails of the ship of my soul. And in…
Tuesday, November 29th
… nothing good in us springs from ourselves but comes from the waters of grace near which the soul remains like a tree planted beside a river, and from that Sun which gives life to our works. She realized this so vividly that on seeing any good deed performed by…
Monday, November 28th
The soul that leaves the house of its own will, and abandons the bed of its own satisfaction, will find the Divine Wisdom, the Son of God, the Bridegroom, waiting at the door without. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, November 27th
I know, too, that our bodies are not the chief factors in the work we have before us; they are accessory: extreme humility is the principal point. It is the want of this, I believe, that stops people’s progress. It may seem that we have made but little way: we…
Saturday, November 26th
You must needs apply your mind to him alone and in him alone content yourself, that in him you may find all consolation. Although God is always with us, if we set our hearts on other things besides him we cannot be at peace. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, November 25th
Frequent combing gives the hair more luster and makes it easier to comb; a soul that frequently examines its thoughts, words, and deeds, which are its hair, doing all things for the love of God, will have lustrous hair. Then the Bridegroom will look on the neck of the bride…
Thursday, November 24th
He does not want us to love Him for His gifts, but for Himself alone… He is so beautiful, so ravishing even when He remains silent, even when He hides Himself. – St. Therese
Wednesday, November 23rd
The strength of the soul consists in its faculties, passions and desires, all of which are governed by the will. Now when these faculties, passions and desires are directed by the will toward God, and turned away from all that is not God, then the strength of the soul is…
Tuesday, November 22nd
Our Lord’s love is revealed as perfectly in the most simple soul that resists His grace in nothing as in the most excellent soul… -St. Therese