Wednesday, October 14th
The power and the tenacity of love is great, for love captures and binds God Himself. – St. John of the Cross
Category: Hearthcakes
Tuesday, October 13th
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don’t call prayer—–however much the lips may move. – St. Teresa…
Monday, October 12th
I assure you that God is much better than you believe. He is content with a glance, a sigh of love. As for me, I find perfection very easy to practice because I have understood it as a matter of taking Jesus by His Heart. – St. Therese
Sunday, October 11th
Our Rule is the Cross, and the three Promises the nails that fasten us to it. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Saturday, October 10th
As Our Lord dwells within us, His prayer is ours, and I want to share in it unceasingly, remaining like a little vessel at the spring, at the fountain of life, and so be able to communicate it to others by letting its floods of charity overflow. – St. Elizabeth…
Friday, October 9th
…it is supreme ignorance for the soul to think that it will be able to pass to this high estate of union with God if first it void not the desire of all things, natural and supernatural, which may hinder it…for there is the greatest possible distance between these things…
Thursday, October 8th
The recollected soul becomes uncomplicated, transparent and simplified. In a single, unique movement which proceeds often without words, it adores, gives of itself to God, relies on and rests in him. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Wednesday, October 7th
I leave to great souls and lofty minds the beautiful books I cannot understand, much less put into practice and I rejoice that I am little because children alone and those who resemble them will be admitted to the heavenly banquet. I am glad that there are many mansions in…
Tuesday, October 6th
To make acts of penance of all my contradictions, temporal or spiritual pains, as well as all the actions that could displease me is what I call the penance of the moment. – Teresa of St. Augustine
Monday, October 5th
Our aptitude to receive grace depends upon the interior integrity wherewith we move towards Him, and when He brings His gifts, God can also bestow Himself, stamp His likeness upon us, absolve and deliver us. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Tuesday, October 13th
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don’t call prayer—–however much the lips may move. – St. Teresa…
Monday, October 12th
I assure you that God is much better than you believe. He is content with a glance, a sigh of love. As for me, I find perfection very easy to practice because I have understood it as a matter of taking Jesus by His Heart. – St. Therese
Sunday, October 11th
Our Rule is the Cross, and the three Promises the nails that fasten us to it. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Saturday, October 10th
As Our Lord dwells within us, His prayer is ours, and I want to share in it unceasingly, remaining like a little vessel at the spring, at the fountain of life, and so be able to communicate it to others by letting its floods of charity overflow. – St. Elizabeth…
Friday, October 9th
…it is supreme ignorance for the soul to think that it will be able to pass to this high estate of union with God if first it void not the desire of all things, natural and supernatural, which may hinder it…for there is the greatest possible distance between these things…
Thursday, October 8th
The recollected soul becomes uncomplicated, transparent and simplified. In a single, unique movement which proceeds often without words, it adores, gives of itself to God, relies on and rests in him. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Wednesday, October 7th
I leave to great souls and lofty minds the beautiful books I cannot understand, much less put into practice and I rejoice that I am little because children alone and those who resemble them will be admitted to the heavenly banquet. I am glad that there are many mansions in…
Tuesday, October 6th
To make acts of penance of all my contradictions, temporal or spiritual pains, as well as all the actions that could displease me is what I call the penance of the moment. – Teresa of St. Augustine
Monday, October 5th
Our aptitude to receive grace depends upon the interior integrity wherewith we move towards Him, and when He brings His gifts, God can also bestow Himself, stamp His likeness upon us, absolve and deliver us. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity