Saturday, November 27th
Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you. – St. John of the Cross
Friday, November 26th
If individuals resolutely submit to carrying the cross, if they decidedly want to find and endure trial in all things for God, they will discover in all of them great relief and sweetness. -St. John of the Cross
Thursday, November 25th
My Jesus, pardon me. I am so proud that I do not know how to accept with humility the slightest humiliation. Dear Jesus, teach me humility and send me humiliations, even though I am unworthy of them. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Tuesday, November 23rd
I already told you elsewhere that sometimes the devil gives us great desires so that we will avoid setting ourselves to the task at hand, serving our Lord in possible things, and instead be content with having desired the impossible. Apart from the fact that by prayer you will be…
Monday, November 22nd
God deliver us from spiritual people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may. It would be a bad business for us if we could not seek God until we were dead to the world. Neither Magdalene, nor the woman of Samaria,…
Sunday, November 21st
…how all the Saints remain in the shadows when we look at the Blessed Virgin’s light! – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Saturday, November 20th
Do not refuse work even though it seems that you cannot do it. Let all find compassion in you. – St. John of the Cross
Friday, November 19th
The people of Israel did not find the manna sweet above all else, although it was so in fact, because they would not limit their desires to it alone. The sweetness and nourishment of the manna was not perceived by them, not because it was lacking, but because they longed…
Thursday, November 18th
Since this flame is a flame of divine life, it wounds the soul with the tenderness of God’s life, and it wounds and stirs it so deeply as to make it dissolve in love. What the bride affirmed in the Song of Songs is fulfilled in the soul. She was…
Wednesday, November 17
Sanctity lies not in saying beautiful things, or even in thinking them, or feeling them: it lies in truly being willing to suffer. – St. Therese