Wednesday, February 9th
Life is long, and there are in it many trials, and we need to look at Christ our model, how He suffered them, and also at His apostles and saints, so as to bear these trials with perfection. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, February 8th
Let nothing disturb you, be it good or bad. Give up everything else except your peace of mind. When you feel restless, sad, sorrowful and embittered, look for the cause, and if it is not worth being sorry about (and nothing that does not offend God is worth being sorry…
Monday, February 7th
Faith is obscure knowledge; it thus leads us to knowledge of something, but this something we do not get to see. This is the reason why it must also be said that the end we attain by way of faith is also itself a night: God, even in ecstatic union,…
Sunday, February 6th
Let us not desire delights daughters; we are well off here; the bad inn lasts only a night. Let us praise God; let us force ourselves to do penance in this life. How sweet will be the death of one who has done penance for all his sins, of one…
Saturday, February 5th
The light of faith is like the light of the sun which blinds our eyes because its light is stronger than our powers of sight. So the light of faith transcends our comprehension. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, February 4th
If you give yourself to prayer, you will attain having God manifest Himself to you, and He will make you fall in love with Him. -St. Teresa de los Andes
Thursday, February 3rd
Nothing goes well for me this year. But God is merciful when He burdens us with crosses. -St. Raphael Kalinowski
Wednesday, February 2nd
If the Lord put up with someone as miserable as myself for so long a time…who, no matter how bad they may be, has reason to fear? For no matter how bad they may be, they will not be bad for as many years as I was after having received…
Tuesday, February 1st
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
Monday, January 31st
For these are souls who, instead of committing themselves to God and making use of His help, rather hinder God by the indiscretion of their actions or by their resistance; like children who, when their mothers desire to carry them in their arms, start stamping and crying, and insist upon…