Tuesday, February 28th
Only he who is centered in Christ can be said to live – to understand what it really means to live. -Bl. Mary of Jesus of Toledo
Only he who is centered in Christ can be said to live – to understand what it really means to live. -Bl. Mary of Jesus of Toledo
Be indifferent in all things; and let it be the same to you to do one thing as to do another, to have one office as to have another. – St. Mary Magdalen de’Pazzi
It should be known that the Word, the Son of God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is hidden by his essence and his presence in the innermost being of the soul. Individuals who want to find him should leave all things through affection and will, enter within…
You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward. -St Mary Magdalen de’Pazzi, OCD
By God, of God, and for God, this is the final goal of every creature. -St. Teresa de los Andes
God is freeing my heart of every natural attraction, perhaps to make room there for purer things in which there will be only the desire for my neighbor’s good. – St. Raphael Kalinowsky
The soul that has given itself to God must give itself completely, for love leaves nothing for itself. Let it be consumed entirely so that from these ashes only one person may rise: Christ. The creature is consumed in the divinity. St. Teresa de los Andes
Remember that you are in exile and therefore do not wish to act as if you were in your fatherland. -St. Mary Magdalen de’Pazzi
It’s an amusing thing that even though we still have a thousand impediments and imperfections and our virtues have hardly begun to grow -and please, God, they might have begun- we are yet not ashamed to seek spiritual delights in prayer or to complain about dryness. – St. Teresa of…
His Majesty knows what is good for us; it is not for us to advise Him how to treat us, for He has the right to tell us that we know not what we ask. Remember, it is of the greatest importance- the sole aim of one beginning to practice…