Sunday, February 12th
It is enough to keep closed the outside doors, which are the senses; then it seems to me that the soul cannot go elsewhere than to its center which is God. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Saturday, February 11th
He who does not hold the reins of his whole being tightly in his hand is not at all at the height where he can make his decisions with true Freedom: on the contrary he will always be subject to exterior influences. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Friday, February 10th
Since our Lord dwells in our souls, His prayer is ours. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Thursday, February 9th
By entering Carmel you undertook to reproduce in yourself the life of the Crucified. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Wednesday, February 8th
Once while I was thinking of the distress it caused me to eat meat and not do penance, I understood that sometimes my distress was more a matter of self love than a desire for penance. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, February 7th
The lukewarm are very lax and remiss in their will and spirit, and have no solicitude about serving God. Those suffering from the purgative dryness are ordinarily solicitous, concerned, and pained about not serving God. – St. John of the Cross
Monday, February 6th
I found the secret of suffering in peace – I don’t say joy. To suffer in peace, it is enough to will all that Jesus wills. – St. Therese
Sunday, February 5th
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me.…
Saturday, February 4th
Love does not consist in great sweetness of devotion, but in a fervent determination to strive to please God in all things, in avoiding, as far as possible, all that would offend Him, and in praying for the increase of the glory and honor of His Son and for the…
Friday, February 3rd
The darkness that leads to God is, as we already know, faith. It is the only means that leads to union because it sets God before our eyes as he is: as infinite, as triune. Faith resembles God in that both blind the intellect and appear to it as darkness.…