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…
Saturday, January 8th
When I think that previously I was envious of Mary Magdalene for having had Jesus in her home so many times, for having listened to Him, I become ashamed; for He did not abandon our earth. He remains in the tabernacle. There I look at Him in faith and listen…
Friday, January 7th
I am content to sacrifice during my life all joyful thought of the home which awaits me. -St. Therese
Thursday, January 6th
Come, Holy Spirit. Spirit of truth, you are the reward of the saints, the comforter of souls, light in the darkness, riches to the poor, treasure to lovers, food for the hungry, comfort to those who are wandering; to sum up, you are the one in whom all treasures are…
Wednesday, January 5th
Always receive with equal contentment from God’s hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi