Friday, April 24th
Have an intimate desire that His Majesty grant you what he knows you lack for his honor. – St. John of the Cross
Category: Hearthcakes
Thursday, April 23rd
It’s an amusing thing that even though we still have a thousand impediments and imperfections and our virtues have hardly begun to grow -and please, God, they might have begun- we are yet not ashamed to seek spiritual delights in prayer or to complain about dryness. – St. Teresa of…
Wednesday, April 22nd
What do you ask, then, and seek, my soul? Yours is all of this, and all is for you. Do not engage yourself in something less, nor pay heed to the crumbs which fall from your Father’s table. Go forth and exult in your Glory! Hide yourself in It and…
Tuesday, April 21st
Never fear that the Lord Who invites us to drink of the fountain will allow us to die of thirst. -St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, April 20th
Live in faith and hope even though you are in darkness, for in this darkness God enfolds the soul. Cast your cares upon God, for you are His, and He will never forget you. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, April 19th
Is there any freedom greater than the freedom to serve God? Is there any freedom more complete than union with Him? Does He not free us from ties of money and property and selfishness, of avarice and pride and inconstancy? Is He not the only true Emancipator? Who is free…
Saturday, April 18th
True spirituality seeks for bitterness rather than sweetness in God, inclines to suffering rather than consolation. It knows that this is to follow Christ and deny self, while the other course is perhaps nothing but seeking oneself in God, which is the very opposite of love. -St. John of the…
Friday, April 17th
It must always be understood that one has to strive to go forward in the service of our Lord and in self- knowledge. – St. Teresa of Avila
Thursday, April 16th
… build the little cocoon. Let us renounce self-love and self-will, care for nothing earthly, do penance, pray, mortify ourselves, be obedient, and perform all the other good works of which you know. …die as the silkworm does when it has fulfilled the office of its creation, and you will…
Wednesday, April 15th
Without any need for us, He created us. Every work of His power was directed to mankind. Everything has been put at our disposal. -St. Teresa de los Andes
Thursday, April 23rd
It’s an amusing thing that even though we still have a thousand impediments and imperfections and our virtues have hardly begun to grow -and please, God, they might have begun- we are yet not ashamed to seek spiritual delights in prayer or to complain about dryness. – St. Teresa of…
Wednesday, April 22nd
What do you ask, then, and seek, my soul? Yours is all of this, and all is for you. Do not engage yourself in something less, nor pay heed to the crumbs which fall from your Father’s table. Go forth and exult in your Glory! Hide yourself in It and…
Tuesday, April 21st
Never fear that the Lord Who invites us to drink of the fountain will allow us to die of thirst. -St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, April 20th
Live in faith and hope even though you are in darkness, for in this darkness God enfolds the soul. Cast your cares upon God, for you are His, and He will never forget you. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, April 19th
Is there any freedom greater than the freedom to serve God? Is there any freedom more complete than union with Him? Does He not free us from ties of money and property and selfishness, of avarice and pride and inconstancy? Is He not the only true Emancipator? Who is free…
Saturday, April 18th
True spirituality seeks for bitterness rather than sweetness in God, inclines to suffering rather than consolation. It knows that this is to follow Christ and deny self, while the other course is perhaps nothing but seeking oneself in God, which is the very opposite of love. -St. John of the…
Friday, April 17th
It must always be understood that one has to strive to go forward in the service of our Lord and in self- knowledge. – St. Teresa of Avila
Thursday, April 16th
… build the little cocoon. Let us renounce self-love and self-will, care for nothing earthly, do penance, pray, mortify ourselves, be obedient, and perform all the other good works of which you know. …die as the silkworm does when it has fulfilled the office of its creation, and you will…
Wednesday, April 15th
Without any need for us, He created us. Every work of His power was directed to mankind. Everything has been put at our disposal. -St. Teresa de los Andes