Thursday, May 11th
It is a great thing that our good Jesus, even though He is glorious at the right hand of His Father, takes on Himself our most vile miseries and deigns to intercede continually for us. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
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Wednesday, May 10th
We must enter continually more deeply into the Divine Being by means of recollection. ‘I press on’ cried St Paul (Phil. 3:14). Thus, every day we must go down deeper along the path of the abyss that is God, letting ourselves slide down the slope in a confidence that is…
Tuesday, May 9th
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. -St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, May 8th
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, May 7th
Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth! One without the other becomes a destructive lie. -St. Teresa Benedicta
Saturday, May 6th
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss. -St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, May 5th
I am happy and shall never cease to be so because I belong to my God. At every moment I find in him my heaven and an eternal and immutable love. I don’t desire anything but him and this love grows in my soul inasmuch I see myself introduced in…
Thursday, May 4th
Faith furnishes a certain but obscure knowledge to the understanding. In fact it shows us God as inaccessible light, as incomprehensible and infinite Being before whom every natural force gives way. And it is just for this motive that faith reduces reason to its intrinsic nothingness: to the realization of…
Wednesday, May 3rd
In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone. – St. John of the Cross
Tuesday, May 2nd
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future. – St. Therese