Friday, September 28th
The Lord’s will fills my heart to the brim, and if anything else is added it cannot penetrate to any depth, but like oil on the surface of water it glides easily across. -St. Therese
Category: Hearthcakes
Thursday, September 27th
In savoring a finite joy the very most one can expect is to enfeeble and destroy our taste, leaving the palate wrecked; for all the sweetness there may be I’ll never throw away my soul… – St. John of the Cross Poem For All the Beauty there May Be
Wednesday, September 26th
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
Tuesday, September 25th
The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don’t mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions…when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really…
Monday, September 24th
There is a joy to be found in suffering when one thinks of eternal happiness. – Bl. Mary of Jesus Crucified
Sunday, September 23rd
It is He alone who wants to work in you, even though you will have done nothing to attract this grace except that which a creature can do: works of sin and misery … He loves you like that. He loves you “more than these,” He will do everything in…
Saturday, September 22nd
Love produces such likeness in this transformation of lovers that one can say each is the other and both are one. The reason is, that in the union and transformation of love, each gives possession of self to the other, and each leaves and exchanges self for the other. Thus…
Friday, September 21st
With what peace, what serenity and recollection Mary rendered and gave herself to all things! How the most commonplace events were divinized by her, for she remained ever in adoration of the Gift of God. Nothing kept her from giving of herself outwardly when it was a question of performing…
Thursday, September 20th
Oh how desirable is this union with God’s will! Happy is the soul that has reached it. Such a soul will live tranquilly in this life, and in the next as well. Nothing in earthly events afflicts it unless it finds itself in some danger of losing God or sees…
Wednesday, September 19th
Every happening, every event, every suffering as also every joy, is a sacrament that gives God to the soul. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Thursday, September 27th
In savoring a finite joy the very most one can expect is to enfeeble and destroy our taste, leaving the palate wrecked; for all the sweetness there may be I’ll never throw away my soul… – St. John of the Cross Poem For All the Beauty there May Be
Wednesday, September 26th
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
Tuesday, September 25th
The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don’t mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions…when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really…
Monday, September 24th
There is a joy to be found in suffering when one thinks of eternal happiness. – Bl. Mary of Jesus Crucified
Sunday, September 23rd
It is He alone who wants to work in you, even though you will have done nothing to attract this grace except that which a creature can do: works of sin and misery … He loves you like that. He loves you “more than these,” He will do everything in…
Saturday, September 22nd
Love produces such likeness in this transformation of lovers that one can say each is the other and both are one. The reason is, that in the union and transformation of love, each gives possession of self to the other, and each leaves and exchanges self for the other. Thus…
Friday, September 21st
With what peace, what serenity and recollection Mary rendered and gave herself to all things! How the most commonplace events were divinized by her, for she remained ever in adoration of the Gift of God. Nothing kept her from giving of herself outwardly when it was a question of performing…
Thursday, September 20th
Oh how desirable is this union with God’s will! Happy is the soul that has reached it. Such a soul will live tranquilly in this life, and in the next as well. Nothing in earthly events afflicts it unless it finds itself in some danger of losing God or sees…
Wednesday, September 19th
Every happening, every event, every suffering as also every joy, is a sacrament that gives God to the soul. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity