Tuesday, February 19th
Look upwards. There is a Father up there who is looking out for us. – Bl. Titus Brandsma
Monday, February 18th
The devil through very small things drills holes through which very large things enter. -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, February 17th
God is compassionate and filled with gentleness, slow to punish and abundant in mercy, for He knows our frailty, He remembers we are dust. -St. Therese
Saturday, February 16th
Many of these beginners want God to desire what they want, and they become sad if they have to desire God’s will. They frequently believe that what is not their will, or that which brings them no satisfaction, is not God’s will, and on the other hand, that if they…
Friday, February 15th
More courage I will need for sure, But any pain will I endure, Because it makes me like to you And leads unto your kingdom too. – Bl. Titus Brandsma, OCD
Thursday, February 14th
Who are you, sweet Light, who inundate me and enlighten the night of my heart? You guide me just like a mother’s hand; but if you leave me I cannot advance a single step. You are space that surrounds my being and in which it is concealed. If you abandon…
Wednesday, February 13th
The mirror in which we ought to look at ourselves that we may reach divine union is Jesus Christ, because no one can attain it except by means of and through the merits of Jesus Crucified. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Tuesday, February 12th
My life is but an instant, an hour that passes by; a single day that slips my grasp and quickly slides away. O well you know, my dearest God, to love you I only have today. -St. Therese
Monday, February 11th
That is what life in Carmel means: to live in God, contemplating His goodness and beauty, and dedicated entirely to the fulfillment of His blessed Will. Then every immolation, every sacrifice becomes divine; through everything the soul sees Him whom she loves and everything leads her to Him… it is…
Sunday, February 10th
Thus you must undertake all things, agreeable or disagreeable, for the sole purpose of pleasing God through them. – St. John of the Cross