Friday, March 19th
Especially persons of prayer should always be attached to St. Joseph… Those who cannot find a master to teach them prayer should take this glorious saint for their master, and they will not go astray. – St. Teresa of Avila
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Thursday, March 18th
Imagine, also, that in this palace dwells this mighty King who has been so gracious enough to become your Father; and that he is seated upon an extremely valuable throne, which is your heart. -St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, March 17th
It is by the Blood of the cross that He will make peace in my little heaven, so that it may truly be the repose of the Three. He will fill me with Himself; He will bury me with Him; He will make me live again with Him, by His…
Tuesday, March 16th
A science of the cross can be gained only when one comes to feel the cross radically. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, March 15th
O my God, how fervent and strong is the charity of a soul who is united with You by love! Those whom You have taken to Yourself in this way, cannot confine themselves to their personal advantage, and be satisfied with it. Nor would it suffice for them to go…
Saturday, March 13th
Think how Our Lady must have felt when, after the Incarnation, she possessed within her the Incarnate Word, the gift of God! In what depths of silence, of recollection, of adoration, she must have lived in the center of her soul, in order to embrace that God whose Mother she…
Friday, March 12th
May God who is all love be your unchanging dwelling place, your cell, your cloister in the midst of the world. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Thursday, March 11th
I found myself so constricted on every side that the only remedy I discovered was to raise my eyes to heaven and call upon God…For there is no stable help but in God. -St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, March 10th
Humility consists in complete recognition of one’s own nothingness in all things. A leather bag is best filled by being laid flat on the ground, and a bucket at a well does not fill with water unless it is lowered. As for me, I remain empty for want of being…
Tuesday, March 9th
St. Catherine of Siena loved to say in the silence of her soul: “I am sought, I am loved.” That is what is true. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity