Monday, March 1st
Love is the strength that helps us accomplish even those things for which we feel the greatest repugnance. -St. Teresa de los Andes
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Sunday, February 28th
The real happiness in this valley of tears, is doing God’s will in everything. Only the person who seeks happiness in this way – avoiding all worry about the difficulties, sorrows and sufferings with which one may be afflicted – will find that happiness. – St. Raphael Kalinowski
Saturday, February 27th
The fact that God deals with us through messengers is not a sign of the unapproachable majesty of God, rather of His overflowing love. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Friday, February 26th
I know quite well all you are suffering. I know your anguish, and I share it. Oh! if I could but impart to you the peace which Jesus has put into my soul amid my most bitter tears. Be comforted – all passes away. -St. Therese
Thursday, February 25th
What ineffable joy to carry our cross feebly. – St. Therese
Wednesday, February 24th
Just as the Prophet did not hear the voice of God in the storm, but in the gentle breeze, so the heart of the spiritual person must not be shaken by the storm, but must listen for God’s voice in the silence of its own interior. – Bl. Titus Brandsma
Tuesday, February 23rd
David also said that clouds and darkness are near God and surround him [Ps. 18:11], not because this is true in itself, but because it appears thus to our weak intellects, which in being unable to attain so bright a light are blinded and darkened. – St. John of the…
Monday, February 22nd
Those who practice prayer should have a special affection for him (St. Joseph) always. I do not know how anyone can think of the Queen of the Angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Child Jesus, without giving thanks to Saint Joseph for the way he…
Sunday, February 21st
Why fear to offer yourself as a victim to God’s Merciful Love? If it were to His Divine Justice you might have reason to fear, but the Merciful Love will have pity on your weakness and will treat you with tenderest mercy. – St. Therese
Friday, February 19th
The soul that is quick to turn to speaking and conversing is slow to turn to God. – St. John of the Cross