Tuesday, February 12th
My life is but an instant, an hour that passes by; a single day that slips my grasp and quickly slides away. O well you know, my dearest God, to love you I only have today. -St. Therese
Category: Hearthcakes
Monday, February 11th
That is what life in Carmel means: to live in God, contemplating His goodness and beauty, and dedicated entirely to the fulfillment of His blessed Will. Then every immolation, every sacrifice becomes divine; through everything the soul sees Him whom she loves and everything leads her to Him… it is…
Sunday, February 10th
Thus you must undertake all things, agreeable or disagreeable, for the sole purpose of pleasing God through them. – St. John of the Cross
Saturday, February 9th
Let us make prayer precede our every action. Who is so wise as to be able to decide without counsel? And what counsel is more perfect than that of the Holy Spirit Who communicates Himself to us when we pray? – Bl. M. Josephine of Jesus Crucified
Friday, February 8th
If the Lord put up with someone as miserable as myself for so long a time…who, no matter how bad they may be, has reason to fear? For no matter how bad they may be, they will not be bad for as many years as I was after having received…
Thursday, February 7th
Rather than continually dwelling on her misery and worthlessness, she merely let all thought of self fall away before the infinite majesty of God; and truly the most profitable and genuine way of despising self is to forget oneself altogether. – on St. Teresa Margaret Redi from God is Love
Wednesday, February 6th
A science of the cross can be gained only when one comes to feel the cross radically. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Tuesday, February 5th
The soul ought to consider aridity and darkness as fortunate omens; as signs that God is beside it, freeing it from itself, taking the initiative out of its hand. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, February 4th
If individuals resolutely submit to carrying the cross, if they decidedly want to find and endure trial in all things for God, they will discover in all of them great relief and sweetness. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, February 3rd
It is a great help to seek Him within, where He is found more easily and in a way more beneficial to us than when sought in creatures, as St. Augustine says, after having looked for Him in many places. – St. Teresa of Avila