Saturday, December 9th
To be a child of God, that means to be led by the hand of God, to do the will of God, not one’s own will, to place every care and every hope in the hand of God and not to worry about oneself or one’s future. On this rests…
Friday, December 8th
Seeing the silence which reigns in His creature, observing how it is wholly recollected in its interior solitude, the Creator greatly desires its beauty. He leads it into the immense, infinite solitude, into that spacious place of which the Psalmist sings, which is His very self. ‘I will enter into…
Thursday, December 7th
His blood is the curtain through which we enter into the Holiest of Holies, the Divine Life. In baptism and in the sacrament of reconciliation, his blood cleanses us of our sins, opens our eyes to eternal light, our ears to hearing God’s word. It opens our lips to sing…
Wednesday, December 6th
O you who do not dare draw near to Him, make the test and prove how good and generous is our most loving God! – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Tuesday, December 5th
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. – St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, December 4th
Jesus wishes to bring His Kingdom to souls more by suffering and persecution than by brilliant preaching. -St. Therese of Lisieux
Sunday, December 3rd
I often consider my Christ, how pleasing and delightful Your eyes are to the one who loves You. – St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, December 2nd
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. – St. Therese
Friday, December 1st
I wish…I could help you find consolation near the Cross. In its shadow, every kind of bitterness fades. No one has suffered like Jesus has and, from His cross, He teaches us to bear with every pain in silence and in resignation. From the cross and with open arms He…
Thursday, November 30th
Lonely valleys are quiet, pleasant, cool, shady and flowing with fresh waters; in the variety of their groves and in the sweet song of the birds, they afford abundant recreation and delight…and in their solitude and silence they refresh and give rest. These valleys are what my Beloved is to…