Thursday, December 29th
Loving surrender is only possible for a free being. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
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Wednesday, December 28th
O sweetest love of God, too little known, he who has found thee is at rest. -St. John of the Cross
Tuesday, December 27th
Let’s love Jesus who has loved us so much. With this thought let’s come frequently before His tabernacle each day. He is always looking at us and desiring that we love Him. He lives there more poorly than He did when in Bethlehem, more helpless than when He was a…
Monday, December 26th
If the greatest sinner on earth should repent at the moment of death, and draw his last breath in an act of love, neither the many graces he had abused, nor the many sins he had committed, would stand in his way. Our Lord would see nothing, count nothing, but…
Sunday, December 25th
Jesus has shown me the only way that leads to the fire of divine love: it is that of a little child who, full of trust, falls asleep in its father’s arms. -St. Therese
Saturday, December 24th
O guiding night! O night more lovely than the dawn! O night that has united the Lover with his beloved, transforming the beloved in her Lover. – St. John of the Cross
Friday, December 23rd
Be sure, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be. -St. Teresa of Avila
Thursday, December 22nd
The soul’s aim is a love equal to God’s. She always desired this equality, naturally and supernaturally, for lovers cannot be satisfied without feeling that they love as much as they are loved. – St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, December 21st
It also happens very quickly and ineffably that God will show within Himself a truth that seems to leave in obscurity all those that are in creatures, and one understands very clearly that God alone is Truth, unable to lie. – St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, December 20th
In fact God seems to be wholly occupied with overwhelming the soul with caresses and marks of affection like a mother who brings up her child and feeds it with her own milk. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity