Monday, October 7th
He will not show Himself openly or reveal His glories or bestow His treasures, save on souls who prove that they ardently desire Him, for these are His real friends. -St. Teresa of Avila
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Sunday, October 6th
Beware, daughters, of a certain kind of humility suggested by the devil which is accompanied by great anxiety about the gravity of our sins. -St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, October 5th
Our good God ardently desires to give us the great treasure of His love; but He wants us to ask Him for it insistently, and to act in such a way that each work we perform will be a request for this love. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Friday, October 4th
In what does true poverty consist? It is to not even possess our own will, in being detached from our own judgement. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Thursday, October 3rd
Divine spirit, divine life, divine love means this: he who does the will of God, knows God and loves Him. In fact, at the moment in which we do what God asks, with interior dedication, divine life becomes our life, God is found within ourselves. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith…
Wednesday, October 2nd
It is right that the soul, as far as it is able, should work to purify itself, that it may merit that God take it into His Divine care and heal it of those imperfections before which it is helpless. -St. John of the Cross
Tuesday, October 1st
There is no time (Communion) when I have less consolation-yet this is not to be wondered at, since it is not for my own satisfaction that I desire to receive Our Lord but solely to give Him pleasure. – St. Therese
Monday, September 30th
Let us avoid all display; let us love our lowliness; let us be affected by nothing. Then we shall be poor in spirit and Jesus will come to seek us. -St. Therese
Sunday, September 29th
A Carmelite sanctifies herself in order to make all the Church’s members holy… Let’s live intimately united with Him, since one who loves tends to be united with the one loved. The fusing of two souls is done through love. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Saturday, September 28th
To lose always and let everyone else win is a trait of valiant souls, generous spirits, and unselfish hearts; it is their manner to give rather than receive even to the extent of giving themselves. They consider it a heavy burden to possess themselves, and it pleases them more to…