Sunday, April 30th
Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer. -St. Therese
Month: April 2023
Saturday, April 29th
Oh my God, how much You suffer for one who grieves so little over Your pains! … Behold Christians, let us consider it carefully and we shall never finish understanding the splendor of the Lord’s mercies and what we owe Him. -St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, April 28th
I see clearly that you are mistaking the road, and that you will never arrive at the end of your journey. You want to climb the mountain whereas God wishes you to descend it. He is waiting for you in the fruitful valley of humility. -St. Therese
Thursday, April 27th
Take pains to be peaceful, but not with a certain kind of peace that never wishes to experience what war is; for to arrive at a true peace according to God, one must acquire it through its opposite. – St. Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi
Wednesday, April 26th
O my Lord, when I think of the many ways You suffered and how You deserved none of these sufferings, I… do not know where my common sense was when I didn’t want to suffer, nor where I am when I excuse myself. – St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, April 25th
Only the person who renounces self-importance, who no longer struggles to defend or assert himself, can be large enough for God’s boundless action. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, April 24th
First, let him have a habitual desire to imitate Christ in everything that he does, conforming himself to His life; upon which life he must meditate so that he may know how to imitate it, and to behave in all things as Christ would behave. – St. John of the…
Sunday, April 23rd
My heart with ardent longings Awaits my Well-Beloved I ask of heaven and all created things Where the Loved One dwells. And all reply: You’ll find Him In the straight and humble heart. Oh! Thought of Him so strong! Oh! His looks, all Love and Mercy. -Bl. Mary of…
Friday, April 21st
Perfection does not lie in the virtues that the soul knows it has, but in the virtues that our Lord sees in it. This is a closed book; hence one has no reason for presumption, but must remain prostrate on the ground with respect to self. – St. John of…
Wednesday, April 19th
Souls are guarded jealously in the heart of God and what we think we sometimes understand of our soul is nonetheless always a fleeting reflection of that which will remain God’s secret until the day in which everything will come to light. The hope in this future revelation gives me…
Saturday, April 29th
Oh my God, how much You suffer for one who grieves so little over Your pains! … Behold Christians, let us consider it carefully and we shall never finish understanding the splendor of the Lord’s mercies and what we owe Him. -St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, April 28th
I see clearly that you are mistaking the road, and that you will never arrive at the end of your journey. You want to climb the mountain whereas God wishes you to descend it. He is waiting for you in the fruitful valley of humility. -St. Therese
Thursday, April 27th
Take pains to be peaceful, but not with a certain kind of peace that never wishes to experience what war is; for to arrive at a true peace according to God, one must acquire it through its opposite. – St. Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi
Wednesday, April 26th
O my Lord, when I think of the many ways You suffered and how You deserved none of these sufferings, I… do not know where my common sense was when I didn’t want to suffer, nor where I am when I excuse myself. – St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, April 25th
Only the person who renounces self-importance, who no longer struggles to defend or assert himself, can be large enough for God’s boundless action. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, April 24th
First, let him have a habitual desire to imitate Christ in everything that he does, conforming himself to His life; upon which life he must meditate so that he may know how to imitate it, and to behave in all things as Christ would behave. – St. John of the…
Sunday, April 23rd
My heart with ardent longings Awaits my Well-Beloved I ask of heaven and all created things Where the Loved One dwells. And all reply: You’ll find Him In the straight and humble heart. Oh! Thought of Him so strong! Oh! His looks, all Love and Mercy. -Bl. Mary of…
Friday, April 21st
Perfection does not lie in the virtues that the soul knows it has, but in the virtues that our Lord sees in it. This is a closed book; hence one has no reason for presumption, but must remain prostrate on the ground with respect to self. – St. John of…
Wednesday, April 19th
Souls are guarded jealously in the heart of God and what we think we sometimes understand of our soul is nonetheless always a fleeting reflection of that which will remain God’s secret until the day in which everything will come to light. The hope in this future revelation gives me…