Thursday, September 26th
Live in faith and hope even though you are in darkness, for in this darkness God enfolds the soul. Cast your cares upon God, for you are His, and He will never forget you. -St. John of the Cross
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Wednesday, September 25th
This is the measure of the holiness of the children of God: to be holy as God, to be holy with the holiness of God: and we do this by living close to Him in the depths of the bottomless abyss within. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Tuesday, September 24th
May Jesus burn more and more in our hearts so that we can enkindle the whole world with His love. – Bl. Mary of the Angels
Monday, September 23rd
True spirituality seeks for bitterness rather than sweetness in God, inclines to suffering rather than consolation. It knows that this is to follow Christ and deny self, while the other course is perhaps nothing but seeking oneself in God, which is the very opposite of love. -St. John of the…
Sunday, September 22nd
I saw that He was a man, even though He was God; that He wasn’t surprised by human weaknesses; that He understands our miserable make-up, subject to many falls on account of the first sin which He came to repair. I can speak with Him as with a friend, even…
Saturday, September 21st
When the soul reflects that God is the guide of its blind self, then its main preoccupation will be to see that it sets no obstacle in the way of its Guide, the Holy Spirit, upon the road by which God is leading it. – St. John of the Cross
Friday, September 20th
Your wisdom, O Word, is like the bush you showed to Moses, which burned, but was not consumed…Those who seek and go after the wisdom that is human abhor your wisdom, but to God human wisdom is foolishness….In addition, by abhorring your wisdom, they deny themselves union with you, for…
Thursday, September 19th
As the earthly body has need of daily bread, so the divine life in us demands continual nourishment. “This is the bread of life come down from heaven.” And each day in us, who make it become our daily bread, is accomplished the mystery of Christmas, the Incarnation of the…
Wednesday, September 18th
He should not go seeking after new things which can only satisfy the desires in a superficial manner (and even here cannot satisfy fully) while leaving the spirit weak and empty, without deep inner virtue. -St. John of the Cross
Tuesday, September 17th
I see clearly, and since then have always seen, that if we are to please God, and if He is to give us His great graces, everything must pass through the hands of His most sacred humanity, in whom His majesty said that He is well pleased. -St. Teresa of…