Monday, December 4th
Jesus wishes to bring His Kingdom to souls more by suffering and persecution than by brilliant preaching. -St. Therese of Lisieux
Category: Hearthcakes
Sunday, December 3rd
I often consider my Christ, how pleasing and delightful Your eyes are to the one who loves You. – St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, December 2nd
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. – St. Therese
Friday, December 1st
I wish…I could help you find consolation near the Cross. In its shadow, every kind of bitterness fades. No one has suffered like Jesus has and, from His cross, He teaches us to bear with every pain in silence and in resignation. From the cross and with open arms He…
Thursday, November 30th
Lonely valleys are quiet, pleasant, cool, shady and flowing with fresh waters; in the variety of their groves and in the sweet song of the birds, they afford abundant recreation and delight…and in their solitude and silence they refresh and give rest. These valleys are what my Beloved is to…
Wednesday, November 29th
…for the love of the Lord, let us make a real effort: let us leave our reason and our fears in His hands and let us forget the weakness of our nature which is apt to cause us so much worry…our own task is only to journey with good speed…
Tuesday, November 28th
Good works wrought in the season of spiritual dryness and hardness are like the freshness of the winter morning. What we then do for God in dryness of spirit is most precious in His eyes. It is then that we acquire abundant virtues and graces, and what we achieve with…
Monday, November 27th
I am the happiest creature. I don’t desire anything more because my whole being is satiated by God who is Love. -St. Teresa de Los Andes
Sunday, November 26th
“To watch in prayer”- this is to say the same thing that Elijah said with the words, “to stand before the face of God.” Prayer is looking up into the face of the Eternal. We can do this only when the spirit is awake in its inmost depths, freed from…
Saturday, November 25th
Courage, my sister, the yoke of a Carmelite is necessarily very light or very heavy in proportion as one’s courage bears it or one’s cowardice drags it. – Teresa of St. Augustine, OCD
Sunday, December 3rd
I often consider my Christ, how pleasing and delightful Your eyes are to the one who loves You. – St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, December 2nd
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. – St. Therese
Friday, December 1st
I wish…I could help you find consolation near the Cross. In its shadow, every kind of bitterness fades. No one has suffered like Jesus has and, from His cross, He teaches us to bear with every pain in silence and in resignation. From the cross and with open arms He…
Thursday, November 30th
Lonely valleys are quiet, pleasant, cool, shady and flowing with fresh waters; in the variety of their groves and in the sweet song of the birds, they afford abundant recreation and delight…and in their solitude and silence they refresh and give rest. These valleys are what my Beloved is to…
Wednesday, November 29th
…for the love of the Lord, let us make a real effort: let us leave our reason and our fears in His hands and let us forget the weakness of our nature which is apt to cause us so much worry…our own task is only to journey with good speed…
Tuesday, November 28th
Good works wrought in the season of spiritual dryness and hardness are like the freshness of the winter morning. What we then do for God in dryness of spirit is most precious in His eyes. It is then that we acquire abundant virtues and graces, and what we achieve with…
Monday, November 27th
I am the happiest creature. I don’t desire anything more because my whole being is satiated by God who is Love. -St. Teresa de Los Andes
Sunday, November 26th
“To watch in prayer”- this is to say the same thing that Elijah said with the words, “to stand before the face of God.” Prayer is looking up into the face of the Eternal. We can do this only when the spirit is awake in its inmost depths, freed from…
Saturday, November 25th
Courage, my sister, the yoke of a Carmelite is necessarily very light or very heavy in proportion as one’s courage bears it or one’s cowardice drags it. – Teresa of St. Augustine, OCD