Friday, November 8th
What have I to do on heaven and on earth except to please my God and give myself up to Him continually? – Bl. Marie of the Incarnation (Madame Acarie)
What have I to do on heaven and on earth except to please my God and give myself up to Him continually? – Bl. Marie of the Incarnation (Madame Acarie)
The soul is not united with God in this life through understanding, or through enjoyment, or through imagination, or through any other sense; but only faith, hope, and charity (according to the intellect, memory, and will) can unite the soul with God in this life. – St. John of the…
For this reason, the purer, simpler, and more perfect the general knowledge is, the darker it seems to be and the less the intellect perceives. – St. John of the Cross
It seems to me that if our sacrifices take Jesus captive, our joys make Him prisoner too. All that is needed to attain this is that, instead of giving ourselves over to selfish happiness, we offer to our Spouse the little joys He scatters in our path to charm our…
Love suffers neither delay nor repose, being always eager to suffer for the Beloved. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Love suffers neither delay nor repose, being always eager to suffer for the Beloved. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Let Your divinity shine on my intellect by giving it divine knowledge, and on my will by imparting to it the divine love and on my memory with the divine possession of glory. -St. John of the Cross
O Eternal Father, that You are blessed and glorious in Yourself is no cause for wonder. That all creatures are blessed and glorious through You is no cause for wonder. But that You communicate Yourself to, and take pleasure in, a creature so vile, this is a cause for wonder….…
Let Christ crucified be enough for you, and with Him suffer and take your rest, and hence annihilate yourself in all inward and outward things. – St. John of the Cross
He teaches during the brief moments we spend in prayer; however lukewarm these moments may be, God esteems them highly. – St. Teresa of Avila