Monday, September 9th
I know that my heart is too weak to be an apostle, but Jesus, do lend me You Heart. -St.Therese
Sunday, September 8th
Let us live with God as with a Friend. Let us make our faith a living thing, so as to remain in communion with Him through everything. That is how saints are made. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Saturday, September 7th
Love attracts love, mine rushes forth unto You, it would fain fill up the abyss which attracts it; but alas! It is not even as one drop of dew lost in the Ocean, to love You as You love me I must borrow Your very Love – then only, can…
Friday, September 6th
Our Beloved does not need our brilliant deeds nor our beautiful thoughts. If He wanted sublime concepts, has He not the angels, who surpass in knowledge the greatest geniuses of the world? -St. Therese
Thursday, September 5th
Look at my whole life filled with suffering, and only in the incident on Mount Tabor do you hear about my joy. The great saints…spent long periods without any spiritual consolation. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, September 4th
There is a Being who is Love and who desires to have us live with Him. Oh! It is delightful! He is there, keeping me company, helping me to suffer, making me rise above my suffering to rest in Him. Do as I do, and you will see how everything…
Tuesday, September 3rd
…He brought about the reconciliation and union of the human race with God through grace. The Lord achieved this…at the moment in which he was most annihilated… The journey, then, does not consist in consolations, delights, and spiritual feelings, but in the living death of the cross, sensory and spiritual,…
Monday, September 2nd
Until slumber comes to the appetites through the mortification of sensuality, and until this very sensuality is stilled in such a way that the appetites do not war against the spirit, the soul will not walk out to genuine freedom, to the enjoyment of union with its Beloved. – St.…
Sunday, September 1st
Especially persons of prayer should always be attached to St. Joseph… Those who cannot find a master to teach them prayer should take this glorious saint for their master, and they will not go astray. – St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, August 31st
…you have only to stay close to the crucified and your suffering is the best prayer. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity