Thursday, September 5th
Look at my whole life filled with suffering, and only in the incident on Mount Tabor do you hear about my joy. The great saints…spent long periods without any spiritual consolation. – St. Teresa of Avila
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Wednesday, September 4th
There is a Being who is Love and who desires to have us live with Him. Oh! It is delightful! He is there, keeping me company, helping me to suffer, making me rise above my suffering to rest in Him. Do as I do, and you will see how everything…
Tuesday, September 3rd
…He brought about the reconciliation and union of the human race with God through grace. The Lord achieved this…at the moment in which he was most annihilated… The journey, then, does not consist in consolations, delights, and spiritual feelings, but in the living death of the cross, sensory and spiritual,…
Monday, September 2nd
Until slumber comes to the appetites through the mortification of sensuality, and until this very sensuality is stilled in such a way that the appetites do not war against the spirit, the soul will not walk out to genuine freedom, to the enjoyment of union with its Beloved. – St.…
Sunday, September 1st
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
Saturday, August 31st
…you have only to stay close to the crucified and your suffering is the best prayer. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Friday, August 30th
He who seeks not the Cross of Christ seeks not the glory of Christ. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, August 29th
I believe that if we desire to make room for His Majesty, He will give not only this (gentle drawing inward) but more, and give it to those whom He begins to call to advance further. -St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, August 28th
Oh, how much we gain if we have no desire to gain what seems to us best and so have no fear of losing, since God never permits a truly mortified person to lose anything except when such loss will bring him greater gain! – St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, August 27th
Have we truly prayed “in the name of Jesus,” i.e., not just with the name of Jesus on our lips, but with the spirit and in the mind of Jesus, for the glory of the Father alone, without any self-seeking? The day on which God has unrestricted power over our…