Sunday, December 24th
What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetites and our tongue, for the language He best hears is silent love. -St. John of the Cross
Saturday, December 23rd
O my Jesus! You never ask what is impossible; You know better than I how frail and imperfect I am; You know that I shall never love my Sisters as You have loved them, unless You love them Yourself within me, my dearest Master. -St. Therese
Friday, December 22nd
When one cannot put oneself right by speaking, it is better to have recourse to prayer and silence; and thus to keep one’s peace alone with God. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Thursday, December 21st
The immense gifts of God can only be contained by empty and solitary hearts. Therefore our Lord, who loves you greatly, wishes you to be quite alone, for he desires to be your only companion. -St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, December 19th
To be a child of God, to do His will, not one’s own; to place all our hopes and cares in His hands and no longer be concerned about one’s self or future. Thereupon rest the freedom and the good cheer of the child of God. – St. Teresa Benedicta…
Tuesday, December 19th
The road and ascent to God, then, necessarily demands a habitual effort to renounce and mortify the appetites; the sooner this mortification is achieved, the sooner the soul reaches the top. But until the appetites are eliminated, a person will not arrive, no matter how much virtue he practices. For…
Monday, December 18th
Christ’s love knows no bounds, is never ending, does not draw back before ugliness and filth. He came for sinners and not for the just, and if the love of Christ lives in us we ought to do as He did and set ourselves to seek the lost sheep. –…
Sunday, December 17th
Aristotle says that, even as are the eyes of the bat with regard to the sun, which is total darkness to it, even so is our understanding to that which is greater light in God, which is total darkness to us. And he says further that, the loftier and clearer…
Saturday, December 16th
We practice charity much better when we are helping a person who is less appealing to us. – St. Therese
Friday, December 15th
We come to the great King of Heaven with empty hands, in debt to Him for everything: life itself, and grace, and all the gifts He lavishes on us. Yet all we can say is, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all I owe,’ while all the…