Tuesday, January 18th
If you have confidence in Him and have courageous spirits–for His Majesty is very fond of these–you need not fear that He will fail you in anything. -St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, January 17th
The darker it becomes around us, the more we ought to open our hearts to the light that comes from on high. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Sunday, January 16th
If a person is not quite blind, that person often refuses to be led by a guide. Since he sees a little, he thinks it is best to go in whatever direction he can distinguish because he sees no better direction. So he can lead astray a guide who sees…
Saturday, January 15th
I saw an angel appear in bodily form close by my left side …. He was not large, but small, and extremely beautiful,” Teresa wrote. “His face was aflame with fire so much that he appeared to be one of the highest ranks of angels, those that we call seraphim…
Friday, January 14th
True poverty of spirit…means being at rest in labors and dryness and not seeking consolation or comfort in prayer…but seeking consolation in trials for love of Him who always lived in the midst of them. – St. Teresa of Avila
Thursday, January 13th
We ought to receive everything as coming directly from our Father’s divine hand, who loves us and who, in all our trials, is working out His own end end — that of uniting us more closely to Himself. Launch your soul upon the sea of courage and holy abandonment to…
Wednesday, January 12th
If I ask You to free me from a trial, and the purpose of that trial is my mortification, what is it that I’m asking for, my God? – St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, January 11th
The hours of adoration before the Highest Good and the listening for the voice of the Eucharistic God are simultaneously “meditation on the Law of the Lord” and “watching in prayer.” But the highest level is reached “when the Law is deep within our hearts” (Ps 40:8), when we are…
Monday, January 10th
Work, especially great work, is a burden and a pain, a suffering precisely because intense activity cannot fail to generate in us that disagreeable phenomenon that is called fatigue, which eventually degenerates into depression or prostration or some other form of real and actual suffering. This painful aspect of work…
Sunday, January 9th
O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, descend into my soul and make all in me as an incarnation of the Word, that I may be to Him a super-added humanity wherein He renews His mystery; and You O Father, bestow Yourself and bend down to Your little creature, seeing in…