Friday, September 22nd
All things count for nothing when it is a matter of acquiring true love of God. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
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Thursday, September 21st
When our hearts are free from liking and judging people merely according to their natural gifts we are not held captive by external and changing charms. We are instead free to love people as they really are, and we can penetrate more easily to the core of their personality, their…
Wednesday, September 20th
I like to find at least a few moments each day spent in doing good for others out of love for God. These few moments, almost unnoticeably used, bring something like rays of peace and comfort behind them. They unite us with people and God with purity and sweetness. -St.…
Tuesday, September 19th
For we must not be without our cross, even as our Beloved had his cross, until he died the death of love. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, September 18th
Do as perfectly as you can the tasks of your everyday life, even the most trivial. It is quite simple. Follow Our Lord like a little child. I skip after him as best I can. I put my trust in him and abandon all care. -Blessed Titus Brandsma
Sunday, September 17th
We must have no confidence whatever our own strength, but trust in His mercy and until we do this all is weakness. – St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, September 16th
If you feel your weakness, God wants you to make use of it in order to make acts of the will which you will offer Him as so many acts of love … He so loves you and He so wants you for His own, whatever may be the path…
Friday, September 15th
Charity enlightens where selfishness makes one blind; it widens where selfishness narrows; it is joyful where selfishness is miserable. -Bl. Pere Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD
Thursday, September 14th
When you speak with a Lord so great, you should think of Who it is you are addressing and what you yourself are, if only that you may speak to Him with proper respect. How can you address a king with the reverence he deserves unless you are clearly conscious…
Wednesday, September 13th
I have abandoned my free will to You so that henceforth You alone will be the possessor of my heart and Your holy Will the rule of my actions. I desire to love You with a patient love, a love dead to self – that is, a love which completely…