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
Tuesday, April 9th
Do not let your weakness make you unhappy. When, in the morning, we feel no courage or strength for the practice of virtue, it is really a grace: it is the time to ‘lay the axe to the root of the trees,’ Matt. 3:10 relying upon Jesus alone. -St. Therese
Monday, April 8th
It is in the effects and deeds following afterward that one discerns the true value of prayer. -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, April 7th
How your life would be transformed if you were frequently with Jesus as with a friend! Do you perchance think that Jesus will not receive you as such? If you think such a thing, you would demonstrate that you do not know Him. He is all tenderness, all love for…
Saturday, April 6th
If the soul does not withdraw from its Spouse through a very culpable boldness, He will protect it from the whole world and even from all hell. -St. Teresa of Avila
Friday, April 5th
Those who now desire to question God or receive some vision or revelation are guilty not only of foolish behavior but of also offending Him by not fixing their eyes entirely on Christ and by living with the desire for some other novelty. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, April 4th
We do not climb Calvary as heroes, like the champion who has won the race. A saint is not a hero: he is someone filled with God and with God’s strength. – Ven. Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus