Wednesday, August 21st
Since this edifice is built entirely on humility, the closer one comes to God, the more progress there must be in this virtue; and if there is no progress in humility, everything is going to be ruined. -St. Teresa of Avila
Month: August 2024
Tuesday, August 20th
It is a great school of humility to have to do continually things that cause great fatigue and that turn out very imperfect. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, August 19th
We do not know how to make the slightest sacrifice for our God, despite the fact that from eternity He has refused us nothing. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Sunday, August 18th
Just as the angels in heaven incessantly sing His praises, so does a Carmelite echo those praises here on earth, whether near to the tabernacle where God who is Love lives imprisoned, or in the intimate depths of her soul’s heaven, where faith tells her God dwells. Our vocation’s objective…
Saturday, August 17th
Once while I was thinking of the distress it caused me to eat meat and not do penance, I understood that sometimes my distress was more a matter of self love than a desire for penance. -St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, August 16th
The lukewarm are very lax and remiss in their will and spirit, and have no solicitude about serving God. Those suffering from the purgative dryness are ordinarily solicitous, concerned, and pained about not serving God. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, August 15th
I do not tremble when I see my weakness, for the treasures of a mother belong also to her child, and I am thy child, O dear Mother Mary. -St. Therese
Wednesday, August 14th
Fear nothing and be ever joyous…The love of God raises us above our weaknesses. It is He who renders us strong and intrepid. – Bl. Anne of St. Bartholomew
Tuesday, August 13th
When Jesus made in me His dwelling place, When God took possession of my heart, So well that since that hour, Since that mysterious colloquy, That divine and delicious meeting, I have aspired to nothing else but to give my life In order to return a bit of His great…
Monday, August 12th
If a person wishes to gain freedom of spirit and not be always troubled, let him begin by not being frightened by the cross, and he will see how the Lord also helps him carry it. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, August 20th
It is a great school of humility to have to do continually things that cause great fatigue and that turn out very imperfect. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, August 19th
We do not know how to make the slightest sacrifice for our God, despite the fact that from eternity He has refused us nothing. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Sunday, August 18th
Just as the angels in heaven incessantly sing His praises, so does a Carmelite echo those praises here on earth, whether near to the tabernacle where God who is Love lives imprisoned, or in the intimate depths of her soul’s heaven, where faith tells her God dwells. Our vocation’s objective…
Saturday, August 17th
Once while I was thinking of the distress it caused me to eat meat and not do penance, I understood that sometimes my distress was more a matter of self love than a desire for penance. -St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, August 16th
The lukewarm are very lax and remiss in their will and spirit, and have no solicitude about serving God. Those suffering from the purgative dryness are ordinarily solicitous, concerned, and pained about not serving God. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, August 15th
I do not tremble when I see my weakness, for the treasures of a mother belong also to her child, and I am thy child, O dear Mother Mary. -St. Therese
Wednesday, August 14th
Fear nothing and be ever joyous…The love of God raises us above our weaknesses. It is He who renders us strong and intrepid. – Bl. Anne of St. Bartholomew
Tuesday, August 13th
When Jesus made in me His dwelling place, When God took possession of my heart, So well that since that hour, Since that mysterious colloquy, That divine and delicious meeting, I have aspired to nothing else but to give my life In order to return a bit of His great…
Monday, August 12th
If a person wishes to gain freedom of spirit and not be always troubled, let him begin by not being frightened by the cross, and he will see how the Lord also helps him carry it. -St. Teresa of Avila