Wednesday, November 13th
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction. – St. John of the Cross
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Tuesday, November 12th
O illustrious people! Open your eyes for the love of God; behold that the true knights of Jesus Christ and the princes of His Church, a St. Peter and a St. Paul, did not follow the road you follow. Do you think perhaps there will be a new road for…
Monday, November 11th
Mary, who kept all God’s words in her heart, in the fullness of grace granted her, understood the great value of suffering. While the apostles fled,she went out to meet the Saviour on the way to Calvary and stood beneath the cross, in order to share His grief and shame…
Sunday, November 10th
Do not let your weakness make you unhappy. When, in the morning, we feel no courage or strength for the practice of virtue, it is really a grace: it is the time to ‘lay the ax to the root of the trees,’ (Matt. 3:10) relying upon Jesus alone. If we…
Saturday, November 9th
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. – St. John of the Cross
Friday, November 8th
What have I to do on heaven and on earth except to please my God and give myself up to Him continually? – Bl. Marie of the Incarnation (Madame Acarie)
Thursday, November 7th
The soul is not united with God in this life through understanding, or through enjoyment, or through imagination, or through any other sense; but only faith, hope, and charity (according to the intellect, memory, and will) can unite the soul with God in this life. – St. John of the…
Wednesday, November 6th
For this reason, the purer, simpler, and more perfect the general knowledge is, the darker it seems to be and the less the intellect perceives. – St. John of the Cross
Tuesday, November 5th
It seems to me that if our sacrifices take Jesus captive, our joys make Him prisoner too. All that is needed to attain this is that, instead of giving ourselves over to selfish happiness, we offer to our Spouse the little joys He scatters in our path to charm our…
Monday, November 4th
Love suffers neither delay nor repose, being always eager to suffer for the Beloved. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi