Sunday, January 1st
God is ready to pardon a sinner who humbles himself. He looks with more love on a soul who returns to Him in Humility, than on a faithful soul who finds pleasure in its virtues. – Bl. Mary of Jesus Crucified
Saturday, December 31st
Leave aside any of that faintheartedness that some persons have and think is humility. You see, humility doesn’t consist in refusing a favor the King offers you but in accepting such a favor and understanding how bountifully it comes to you and being delighted with it. – St. Teresa of…
Friday, December 30th
The pathway of the incarnate Son of God winds around the cross and suffering until it comes to the glory of the resurrection. And for each of us, for all humanity, the way is joined to that of the Son of God through suffering and death, to the glory of…
Thursday, December 29th
True I am not always faithful, but I do not get discouraged. I place myself in the arms of the Lord and He teaches me to “draw profit from everything, good or bad, that He finds in me.” -St. Therese
Wednesday, December 28th
When a person resolves to suffer, the pain is over. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, December 27th
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, December 26th
How easy it is to please Jesus, to ravish His Heart. We have merely to love Him, while, at the same time, forgetting ourselves. -St. Therese
Sunday, December 25th
Since Jesus wants to sleep why will I hinder Him? I am only too happy that He doesn’t bother with me, for He is showing me that I am not a stranger when treating me this way, for I assure you, He is going to no trouble about carrying on…
Saturday, December 24th
In order to allow an entire human existence to be pervaded with divine life, it is not enough to kneel down once a year in front of the manger and allow oneself to be taken in by the spell of the Holy Night. One must be actively engaged with God…
Friday, December 23rd
Think how Our Lady must have felt when, after the Incarnation, she possessed within her the Incarnate Word, the gift of God! In what depths of silence, of recollection, of adoration, she must have lived in the centre of her soul, in order to embrace that God whose Mother she…