Thursday, February 27th
…you have only to stay close to the crucified and your suffering is the best prayer. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Wednesday, February 26th
In what does true poverty consist? It is to not even possess our own will, in being detached from our own judgement. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Tuesday, February 25th
Our good God ardently desires to give us the great treasure of His love; but He wishes that we ask Him for it urgently, and that we act in such a way that everything we do will be a request begging for this love. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Monday, February 24th
What God communicates to the soul in this intimate union is totally beyond words. One can say nothing about it just as one can say nothing about God Himself that resembles Him. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, February 23rd
O Jesus, I feel, that, if by an impossibility You could find a soul weaker than mine, You would fill it with even greater graces, provided that such a soul abandoned itself with absolute confidence to Your infinite Mercy. -St. Therese
Saturday, February 22nd
To find God we must work ourselves according to our capacity. The soul therefore, remembering the saying of the Beloved ‘Seek and you shall find’, is resolved to seek Him actively and not rest until it finds Him. For there are many who do not want God to cost them…
Friday, February 21st
If, by an impossibility, the good God Himself did not see my good deeds I would not be grieved. I love Him so much that I wish to give Him pleasure, even without Him knowing that it is I. -St. Therese
Thursday, February 20th
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, February 19th
The relationship of the soul to God as God foresaw it from all eternity as the goal of her (the soul’s) creation, simply cannot be more fittingly designated than as a nuptial bond. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Tuesday, February 18th
There are others who are vexed with themselves when they observe their own imperfectness, and display an impatience that is not humility; so impatient are they about this that they would fain be saints in a day. -St. John of the Cross