Wednesday, January 10th
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. – St. John of the Cross
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Tuesday, January 9th
‘Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear, forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will desire your beauty’. It seems that this appeal is an invitation to silence; ‘listen … incline your ear …’. But to hear, one must forget the house of one’s father, that…
Monday, January 8th
…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…
Sunday, January 7th
Leave aside any of that faintheartedness that some persons have and think is humility. You see, humility doesn’t consist in refusing a favor the King offers you but in accepting such a favor and understanding how bountifully it comes to you and being delighted with it. – St. Teresa of…
Saturday, January 6th
Today there is a special need for the Baptism of spirit and fire. In the tremendous struggle between Christ and Lucifer, those who are called to instruct men constitute the vanguard. To arm ourselves for this struggle and to persevere always armed is our most urgent duty. “If salt loses…
Friday, January 5th
I believe I see my task in a clearer and more precise way. This also means seeing my ineptitude ever more deeply, but at the same time also the possibility of being an instrument in spite of everything. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Thursday, January 4th
If in periods of physical depression and spiritual discouragement it is difficult for us to gather our energies to lift ourselves up, let us rest in the Lord and not grieve over it. – Bl. M. Josephine of Jesus Crucified
Wednesday, January 3rd
Believe me, in the presence of Infinite Wisdom, …one act of humility is worth more than all the knowledge of the world. – St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, January 2nd
Seeing the silence which reigns in His creature, observing how it is wholly recollected in its interior solitude, the Creator greatly desires its beauty. He leads it into the immense, infinite solitude, into that spacious place of which the Psalmist sings, which is His very self. ‘I will enter into…
Monday, January 1st
I wish to be wholly silent, wholly adoring, so that I may enter into Him more deeply and be so filled with Him that I can give Him through prayer to those poor souls who are unaware of the gift of God. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity