Thursday, February 5th
More effective than the mortification one practices according to one’s own choice is the cross that God lays upon one, exteriorly and interiorly. – St. Teresa Benedicta
Category: Hearthcakes
Wednesday, February 4th
Christ’s love knows no bounds, is never ending, does not draw back before ugliness and filth. He came for sinners and not for the just, and if the love of Christ lives in us we ought to do as He did and set ourselves to seek the lost sheep. –…
Tuesday, February 3rd
Believe me, the question is not whether we wear the religious habit or not, but whether we practice the virtues and submit our will in all things to the will of God. -St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, February 2nd
The cross and peace are my portion. But the cross and discouragement are the portion of the enemy and of those who listen to the enemy. – St. Mariam of Jesus Crucified
Sunday, February 1st
Oh, then, spiritual soul, when you see your appetites darkened, your inclinations dry and constrained, your faculties incapacitated for any interior exercise, do not be afflicted; think of this as a grace, since God is freeing you from yourself and taking from you your own activity. -St. John of the…
Saturday, January 31st
The Beloved cares for nothing else but love. The soul therefore, anxious to please him perfectly, occupies itself unceasingly in pure love of God. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, January 30th
I do not desire sensible affection, a love that I feel, but only a love that is felt by Jesus. Oh! to love Him and cause Him to be loved! – St. Therese
Wednesday, January 28th
The exemplar of the soul is God, who must be stamped thereon as the seal on the wax, as the stamp on the object. Now that is fully realized only if the reason is completely enlightened by the knowledge of God, the will riveted into the love of the sovereign…
Tuesday, January 27th
When, with a truly filial confidence, we cast our faults into the consuming furnace of love, they will for certain be entirely consumed. – St. Therese
Monday, January 26th
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
Wednesday, February 4th
Christ’s love knows no bounds, is never ending, does not draw back before ugliness and filth. He came for sinners and not for the just, and if the love of Christ lives in us we ought to do as He did and set ourselves to seek the lost sheep. –…
Tuesday, February 3rd
Believe me, the question is not whether we wear the religious habit or not, but whether we practice the virtues and submit our will in all things to the will of God. -St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, February 2nd
The cross and peace are my portion. But the cross and discouragement are the portion of the enemy and of those who listen to the enemy. – St. Mariam of Jesus Crucified
Sunday, February 1st
Oh, then, spiritual soul, when you see your appetites darkened, your inclinations dry and constrained, your faculties incapacitated for any interior exercise, do not be afflicted; think of this as a grace, since God is freeing you from yourself and taking from you your own activity. -St. John of the…
Saturday, January 31st
The Beloved cares for nothing else but love. The soul therefore, anxious to please him perfectly, occupies itself unceasingly in pure love of God. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, January 30th
I do not desire sensible affection, a love that I feel, but only a love that is felt by Jesus. Oh! to love Him and cause Him to be loved! – St. Therese
Wednesday, January 28th
The exemplar of the soul is God, who must be stamped thereon as the seal on the wax, as the stamp on the object. Now that is fully realized only if the reason is completely enlightened by the knowledge of God, the will riveted into the love of the sovereign…
Tuesday, January 27th
When, with a truly filial confidence, we cast our faults into the consuming furnace of love, they will for certain be entirely consumed. – St. Therese
Monday, January 26th
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