Sunday, October 18th
It is in the effects and deeds following afterward that one discerns the true value of prayer. -St. Teresa of Avila
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Saturday, October 17th
Believe in His love, His exceeding love, as St. Paul says. Nourish your soul on the great thoughts of faith which will reveal to you all its richness and the end for which God has created you! -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Friday, October 16th
Jesus loves a cheerful heart. He loves persons who are always smiling. – St. Therese
Thursday, October 15th
My father was fond of reading good books…These good books together with the care my mother took to have us pray and be devoted to out Lady and to some of the saints began to awaken me. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, October 14th
The power and the tenacity of love is great, for love captures and binds God Himself. – St. John of the Cross
Tuesday, October 13th
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don’t call prayer—–however much the lips may move. – St. Teresa…
Monday, October 12th
I assure you that God is much better than you believe. He is content with a glance, a sigh of love. As for me, I find perfection very easy to practice because I have understood it as a matter of taking Jesus by His Heart. – St. Therese
Sunday, October 11th
Our Rule is the Cross, and the three Promises the nails that fasten us to it. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Saturday, October 10th
As Our Lord dwells within us, His prayer is ours, and I want to share in it unceasingly, remaining like a little vessel at the spring, at the fountain of life, and so be able to communicate it to others by letting its floods of charity overflow. – St. Elizabeth…
Friday, October 9th
…it is supreme ignorance for the soul to think that it will be able to pass to this high estate of union with God if first it void not the desire of all things, natural and supernatural, which may hinder it…for there is the greatest possible distance between these things…