Wednesday, December 4th
Death can hold no bitterness for the soul that loves. It brings with it all the sweetness and delights of love. There is no sadness in the remembrance of it when it opens the door to all joy. -St. John of the Cross
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Tuesday, December 3rd
The soul must forget about understanding, and abandon itself into the arms of love, and His Majesty will teach it what to do next… – St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, December 2nd
And take care about this: however sublime the contemplation, let your prayer always begin and end with self-knowledge. – St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, December 1st
Our knowledge is piecemeal. When our will and action build on it alone, they cannot achieve a perfect structure. Nor can that knowledge, because it does not have complete power over the self and often collapses before reaching the goal. And so this inner shaping power that is in bondage…
Saturday, November 30th
Living on Love, when Jesus is sleeping, Is rest on stormy seas. Oh! Lord, don’t fear that I’ll wake you. I’m waiting in peace for Heaven’s shore… Faith will soon tear its veil. My hope is to see you one day. Charity swells and pushes my sail: I love on…
Friday, November 29th
To prove to Our Lord how much you love Him, learn to forget yourself always … and be very faithful to all your duties and all your resolutions. Live by will rather than by imagination. If you feel your weakness, God wants you to make use of it in order…
Thursday, November 28th
…Jesus has taken command of my ship and has protected it from encountering other vessels. He has kept me in solitude with Himself. Consequently, my heart, by knowing this Captain, has fallen under the spell of His love, and here He keeps me captive. Oh, I love this prison and…
Wednesday, November 27th
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a…
Tuesday, November 26th
Be careful never to waste an occasion for mortification by complaining. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, November 25th
I beseech You, my Divine Jesus, to send me a humiliation every time I try to place myself above others. – St. Therese