Tuesday, April 25th
Only the person who renounces self-importance, who no longer struggles to defend or assert himself, can be large enough for God’s boundless action. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
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Monday, April 24th
First, let him have a habitual desire to imitate Christ in everything that he does, conforming himself to His life; upon which life he must meditate so that he may know how to imitate it, and to behave in all things as Christ would behave. – St. John of the…
Sunday, April 23rd
My heart with ardent longings Awaits my Well-Beloved I ask of heaven and all created things Where the Loved One dwells. And all reply: You’ll find Him In the straight and humble heart. Oh! Thought of Him so strong! Oh! His looks, all Love and Mercy. -Bl. Mary of…
Friday, April 21st
Perfection does not lie in the virtues that the soul knows it has, but in the virtues that our Lord sees in it. This is a closed book; hence one has no reason for presumption, but must remain prostrate on the ground with respect to self. – St. John of…
Wednesday, April 19th
Souls are guarded jealously in the heart of God and what we think we sometimes understand of our soul is nonetheless always a fleeting reflection of that which will remain God’s secret until the day in which everything will come to light. The hope in this future revelation gives me…
Tuesday, April 18th
Lord, if it please You that the darkness of my soul become deeper, that I not see You, it will not bother me because I want to fulfill Your will. I want to spend my life suffering to make reparation for my sins and those of sinners and so priests…
Monday, April 17th
It seems to the soul that the entire universe is a sea of love in which it is engulfed, for conscious of the living point or center of love within itself, it is unable to catch sight of the boundaries of this love. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, April 16th
I remember his love for the prodigal son, I have heard his words to Mary Magdalene, to the woman taken in adultery, to the woman of Samaria. No – there is no one who could frighten me, for I know too well what to believe concerning his mercy and his…
Saturday, April 15th
During these painful times when you feel a terrible void, think how He is enlarging the capacity of your soul so that it can receive Him, making it, as it were, infinite just as He is infinite. So, as far as your will is concerned, try to remain perfectly joyous…
Friday, April 14th
If Our Lord were to offer me a choice between dying in ecstasy or in the loneliness of Calvary, I would prefer the latter, not for the sake of the merit, but to glorify Him and be like Him. If I had died in my former state of soul, it…