Tuesday, October 15th
…the harm done to us by our failure to understand well this humility and self-knowledge…self-knowledge is the most important thing for us. – St.Teresa of Avila
Monday, October 14th
To acquire the holy love of God the best means is to live in the presence of God. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Sunday, October 13th
Even the poorest and the one most bowed down under the weight of sins can stand before the Lord and pray for someone else. First, because the Lord is not only just but merciful. And second, because there can be nothing more pleasing to God than a sincere prayer. –…
Saturday, October 12th
…or if, as I have said, you are very careful about your prayer, you will soon find yourselves gradually reaching the summit of the mountain without knowing how. But how harsh it sounds to say that we must take pleasure in nothing, unless we also say what consolations and delights…
Friday, October 11th
‘You are dead and your life is hidden with Christ in God’ (Col. 3:3). There is the condition: we must be ‘dead’, otherwise we may be hidden in God sometimes, but we do not live habitually in Him; for all our sensitiveness, our self-seeking and such-like, causes us to depart…
Thursday, October 10th
I give thanks to Jesus for making me walk in darkness, and in the darkness I enjoy profound peace. Indeed, I consent to remain through all my religious life in the gloomy passage into which He has led me. I desire only that my darkness may obtain light for sinners.…
Wednesday, October 9th
The Majesty! How victorious! How joyful! Indeed, like one coming forth from a battle where he has gained a great kingdom! And all of that, plus Himself, He desires for you. Well, is it such a big thing that from time to time you turn your eyes to look upon…
Tuesday, October 8th
Oh, if you knew how necessary suffering is so God’s work can be done in the soul… – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Monday, October 7th
Because we are so miserable, we become attached to sensible fervor, to experiencing the love of God sensibly, and often we go to prayer in search of the sensible consolation of God but not for God Himself. – St. Teresa of the Andes
Sunday, October 6th
We must enter continually more deeply into the Divine Being by means of recollection. ‘I press on’ cried St Paul (Phil. 3:14). Thus, every day we must go down deeper along the path of the abyss that is God, letting ourselves slide down the slope in a confidence that is…