Tuesday, March 24th
Forget your self-interests for theirs, however much they rebel: when opportunity occurs take some burden upon yourself to ease your neighbor of it. -St. Teresa of Avila
Category: Hearthcakes
Monday, March 23rd
He has borne with many offences and much unworthiness in you, yet these have not sufficed to make Him turn away; is it much to ask that you should sometimes shift your gaze from earthly things to fix it on Him? -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, March 22nd
I do not count on my own merits, since I have none, but I trust in Him who is Virtue and Sanctity Itself. -St. Therese
Saturday, March 21st
… When there is union of love, the image of the Beloved is so sketched in the will and drawn so vividly, that it is true to say that the Beloved lives in the lover and the lover in the Beloved…The reason is, that in the union and transformation of…
Friday, March 20th
A Carmelite sanctifies herself in order to make all the Church’s members holy… Let’s live intimately united with Him, since one who loves tends to be united with the one loved. The fusing of two souls is done through love. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Thursday, March 19th
Especially persons of prayer should always be attached to St. Joseph… Those who cannot find a master to teach them prayer should take this glorious saint for their master, and they will not go astray. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, March 18th
There is no time (Communion) when I have less consolation-yet this is not to be wondered at, since it is not for my own satisfaction that I desire to receive Our Lord but solely to give Him pleasure. – St. Therese
Tuesday, March 17th
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant and delightful; strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking itself: for where a man seeks himself, there he falls from love. -St. Therese
Monday, March 16th
And in this elevation of all things through the Incarnation of his Son and through the glory of his resurrection according to the flesh not only did the Father beautify creatures partially, but, we can say, he clothed them entirely in beauty and dignity. – St. John of the Cross
Sunday, March 15th
It is not the soul that makes the progress, but it is Christ, who carries her as a child is carried. -Bl. Mary of Jesus of Toledo, OCD
Monday, March 23rd
He has borne with many offences and much unworthiness in you, yet these have not sufficed to make Him turn away; is it much to ask that you should sometimes shift your gaze from earthly things to fix it on Him? -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, March 22nd
I do not count on my own merits, since I have none, but I trust in Him who is Virtue and Sanctity Itself. -St. Therese
Saturday, March 21st
… When there is union of love, the image of the Beloved is so sketched in the will and drawn so vividly, that it is true to say that the Beloved lives in the lover and the lover in the Beloved…The reason is, that in the union and transformation of…
Friday, March 20th
A Carmelite sanctifies herself in order to make all the Church’s members holy… Let’s live intimately united with Him, since one who loves tends to be united with the one loved. The fusing of two souls is done through love. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Thursday, March 19th
Especially persons of prayer should always be attached to St. Joseph… Those who cannot find a master to teach them prayer should take this glorious saint for their master, and they will not go astray. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, March 18th
There is no time (Communion) when I have less consolation-yet this is not to be wondered at, since it is not for my own satisfaction that I desire to receive Our Lord but solely to give Him pleasure. – St. Therese
Tuesday, March 17th
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant and delightful; strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking itself: for where a man seeks himself, there he falls from love. -St. Therese
Monday, March 16th
And in this elevation of all things through the Incarnation of his Son and through the glory of his resurrection according to the flesh not only did the Father beautify creatures partially, but, we can say, he clothed them entirely in beauty and dignity. – St. John of the Cross
Sunday, March 15th
It is not the soul that makes the progress, but it is Christ, who carries her as a child is carried. -Bl. Mary of Jesus of Toledo, OCD