Sunday, June 30th
Lay all your cares about the future trustingly in God’s hands, and let yourself be guided by the Lord just like a little child… -St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Month: June 2024
Saturday, June 29th
During mental prayer…remain before God like a poor, mute paralytic at the door of a rich man. – Brother Lawrence
Friday, June 28th
We have always seen that those who were closest to Christ our Lord were those with the greatest trials. Let us look at what His glorious Mother suffered as well as the glorious apostles. – St. Teresa of Avila
Thursday, June 27th
Who can free himself from the lowly manners and limitations if You do not lift him to Yourself, my God, in purity of love? How will a man begotten and nurtured in lowliness rise up to You, Lord, if You do not raise him with Your hand which made him?…
Wednesday, June 26th
I tell you, Sisters, so that you will see the mercy of our Lord and how His Majesty does not abandon the one who desires to serve Him. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, June 25th
With regard to the fear about whether or not I was in the state of grace, He (Jesus) told me: “Daughter, light is very different from darkness. I am faithful. Nobody will be lost unknowingly. They who find security in spiritual favors will be deceived. True security is the testimony…
Monday, June 24th
It is there in the very depths that the divine impact takes place, where the abyss of our nothingness encounters the Abyss of mercy, the immensity of the all of God. There we will find the strength to die to ourselves and, losing all vestige of self, we will be…
Sunday, June 23rd
The created will is not destined to be free to exalt itself. It is called to come into unison with the divine will. If it freely submits itself to this unison, then it is permitted in freedom to participate in the perfection of creation. If a free creature declines this…
Saturday, June 22nd
It is better to labor and do things for one another than to have each one work for herself, because in doing things for ourselves, there us self love; and in doing things for others, there is charity. -St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi
Friday, June 21st
We live too much our own individual lives and think much too little of how we are united with each other in and through God and all together with God. And yet therein lies our supreme worth and strength, our dignity. -Bl. Titus Brandsma
Saturday, June 29th
During mental prayer…remain before God like a poor, mute paralytic at the door of a rich man. – Brother Lawrence
Friday, June 28th
We have always seen that those who were closest to Christ our Lord were those with the greatest trials. Let us look at what His glorious Mother suffered as well as the glorious apostles. – St. Teresa of Avila
Thursday, June 27th
Who can free himself from the lowly manners and limitations if You do not lift him to Yourself, my God, in purity of love? How will a man begotten and nurtured in lowliness rise up to You, Lord, if You do not raise him with Your hand which made him?…
Wednesday, June 26th
I tell you, Sisters, so that you will see the mercy of our Lord and how His Majesty does not abandon the one who desires to serve Him. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, June 25th
With regard to the fear about whether or not I was in the state of grace, He (Jesus) told me: “Daughter, light is very different from darkness. I am faithful. Nobody will be lost unknowingly. They who find security in spiritual favors will be deceived. True security is the testimony…
Monday, June 24th
It is there in the very depths that the divine impact takes place, where the abyss of our nothingness encounters the Abyss of mercy, the immensity of the all of God. There we will find the strength to die to ourselves and, losing all vestige of self, we will be…
Sunday, June 23rd
The created will is not destined to be free to exalt itself. It is called to come into unison with the divine will. If it freely submits itself to this unison, then it is permitted in freedom to participate in the perfection of creation. If a free creature declines this…
Saturday, June 22nd
It is better to labor and do things for one another than to have each one work for herself, because in doing things for ourselves, there us self love; and in doing things for others, there is charity. -St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi
Friday, June 21st
We live too much our own individual lives and think much too little of how we are united with each other in and through God and all together with God. And yet therein lies our supreme worth and strength, our dignity. -Bl. Titus Brandsma