Sunday, March 23rd
I understand clearly that through love alone can we become pleasing to God, and my sole ambition is to acquire it. – St. Therese
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Saturday, March 22nd
Charity liberates the will from everything, imposing as a duty to love God above all else. This however is possible only when anxious desire for creatures is removed. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Friday, March 21st
One ought to be careful not to devote oneself wholly and with too much solicitude to exterior occupations, to which it is expedient only to lend oneself as much as is necessary, keeping the rest (namely the mind and heart) for God. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Thursday, March 20th
Well, come now, my daughters, don’t be sad when obedience draws you to involvement in exterior matters. Know that if it is in the kitchen, the Lord walks among the pots and pans helping you both interiorly and exteriorly. -St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, March 19th
And take care about this: however sublime the contemplation, let your prayer always begin and end with self-knowledge. – St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, March 18th
Human hearts love one day and are indifferent the next. God alone does not change. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Monday, March 17th
Never complain of anyone, but turn the complaints against yourself; because if you do not succeed in doing what you long to do, how can you complain if others fail? -St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Sunday, March 16th
The mirror in which we ought to look at ourselves that we may reach divine union is Jesus Christ, because no one can attain it except by means of and through the merits of Jesus Crucified. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Saturday, March 15th
You are the true peace of the heart, You are its only rest; outside of You all things are hard and uneasy. -St. Therese
Friday, March 14th
Since I have no other desire than to unite myself to the heart of Jesus, for that reason I try to keep up my effort in the practice of those virtues that can render me a true copy of my dear God. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi