Friday, April 19th
To live of love is not to set up our tent on Tabor. It is to climb Calvary with Jesus and see the Cross as a treasure. -St. Therese
Thursday, April 18th
The hours of adoration before the Highest Good and the listening for the voice of the Eucharistic God are simultaneously “meditation on the Law of the Lord” and “watching in prayer.” But the highest level is reached “when the Law is deep within our hearts” (Ps 40:8), when we are…
Wednesday, April 17th
You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, or even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them. – St. Therese
Tuesday, April 16th
Fasten your eyes on Him alone because in Him I have spoken and revealed all and in Him you will discover even more than you ask for and desire. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, April 15th
Once you get used to enjoying the castle, you will find rest in all things, even those involving much labor, for you will have hope of returning to the castle, which no one can take from you. – St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, April 14th
We will be glorified in the measure in which we will have been conformed to the image of His divine Son. So let us contemplate this adored Image, let us remain unceasingly under its radiance so that it may imprint itself on us. -St.Elizabeth of the Trinity
Saturday, April 13th
Life is passing, Eternity draws nigh: soon shall we live the very life of God. After having drunk deep at the fount of bitterness, our thirst will be quenched at the very source of all sweetness. -St. Therese
Friday, April 12th
Therefore the whole perpetual sacrificial offering of Christ at the cross, in the holy Mass, and in the eternal glory of heaven can be conceived as a single great thanksgiving as Eucharist: as gratitude for creation, salvation, and consummation. Christ presents himself in the name of all creation, whose prototype…
Thursday, April 11th
Many of these beginners have also at times great spiritual avarice. They will be found to be discontented with the spirituality which God gives them; and they are very disconsolate and querulous because they find not in spiritual things the consolation that they would desire. – St. John of the…
Wednesday, April 10th
It is a serious evil to have more regard for God’s blessings than for God Himself: prayer and detachment. – St. John of the Cross