Saturday, August 17th
Once while I was thinking of the distress it caused me to eat meat and not do penance, I understood that sometimes my distress was more a matter of self love than a desire for penance. -St. Teresa of Avila
Category: Hearthcakes
Friday, August 16th
The lukewarm are very lax and remiss in their will and spirit, and have no solicitude about serving God. Those suffering from the purgative dryness are ordinarily solicitous, concerned, and pained about not serving God. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, August 15th
I do not tremble when I see my weakness, for the treasures of a mother belong also to her child, and I am thy child, O dear Mother Mary. -St. Therese
Wednesday, August 14th
Fear nothing and be ever joyous…The love of God raises us above our weaknesses. It is He who renders us strong and intrepid. – Bl. Anne of St. Bartholomew
Tuesday, August 13th
When Jesus made in me His dwelling place, When God took possession of my heart, So well that since that hour, Since that mysterious colloquy, That divine and delicious meeting, I have aspired to nothing else but to give my life In order to return a bit of His great…
Monday, August 12th
If a person wishes to gain freedom of spirit and not be always troubled, let him begin by not being frightened by the cross, and he will see how the Lord also helps him carry it. -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, August 11th
Since our Lord dwells in our souls, His prayer is ours. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Saturday, August 10th
I found the secret of suffering in peace – I don’t say joy. To suffer in peace, it is enough to will all that Jesus wills. – St. Therese
Friday, August 9th
The darkness that leads to God is, as we already know, faith. It is the only means that leads to union because it sets God before our eyes as he is: as infinite, as triune. Faith resembles God in that both blind the intellect and appear to it as darkness.…
Thursday, August 8th
So I will go to the altar of God. Here it is not a question of my minute petty affairs, but of the great offering of reconciliation. I may participate in that, purify myself and be made happy, and lay myself with all my doings and troubles along with the…
Friday, August 16th
The lukewarm are very lax and remiss in their will and spirit, and have no solicitude about serving God. Those suffering from the purgative dryness are ordinarily solicitous, concerned, and pained about not serving God. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, August 15th
I do not tremble when I see my weakness, for the treasures of a mother belong also to her child, and I am thy child, O dear Mother Mary. -St. Therese
Wednesday, August 14th
Fear nothing and be ever joyous…The love of God raises us above our weaknesses. It is He who renders us strong and intrepid. – Bl. Anne of St. Bartholomew
Tuesday, August 13th
When Jesus made in me His dwelling place, When God took possession of my heart, So well that since that hour, Since that mysterious colloquy, That divine and delicious meeting, I have aspired to nothing else but to give my life In order to return a bit of His great…
Monday, August 12th
If a person wishes to gain freedom of spirit and not be always troubled, let him begin by not being frightened by the cross, and he will see how the Lord also helps him carry it. -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, August 11th
Since our Lord dwells in our souls, His prayer is ours. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Saturday, August 10th
I found the secret of suffering in peace – I don’t say joy. To suffer in peace, it is enough to will all that Jesus wills. – St. Therese
Friday, August 9th
The darkness that leads to God is, as we already know, faith. It is the only means that leads to union because it sets God before our eyes as he is: as infinite, as triune. Faith resembles God in that both blind the intellect and appear to it as darkness.…
Thursday, August 8th
So I will go to the altar of God. Here it is not a question of my minute petty affairs, but of the great offering of reconciliation. I may participate in that, purify myself and be made happy, and lay myself with all my doings and troubles along with the…