Tuesday, June 21st
Be careful never to waste an occasion for mortification by complaining. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, June 20th
His Majesty couldn’t grant us a greater favor than to give us a life that would be an imitation of the life His beloved Son lived. – St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, June 19th
Those who practice prayer should have a special affection for him (St. Joseph) always. I do not know how anyone can think of the Queen of the Angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Child Jesus, without giving thanks to Saint Joseph for the way he…
Saturday, June 18th
God is love, and love is goodness giving itself away. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Friday, June 17th
First, have a habitual desire to imitate Christ in all your deeds by bringing your life into conformity with His. You must then study His life in order to know how to imitate Him and behave in all events as He would. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, June 16th
Those who work for God with purest love not only care nothing about whether others see their works, but do not even seek that God himself know of them. Such persons would not cease to render God the same services, with the same joy and purity of love, even if…
Wednesday, June 15th
If you are nothing, do you forget that Jesus is everything? You have only to lose your nothingness in His infinity and think only of loving Him. – St. Therese
Tuesday, June 14th
I propose to have no other purpose in all my activities, either interior or exterior, than the motive of love alone, by constantly asking myself: ‘Now what am I doing in this action? Do I love God?’ If I should notice any obstacle to pure love, I shall take myself…
Monday, June 13th
If I look at things from an earthly standpoint I see loneliness and even emptiness, for I cannot say that my heart has not suffered; but if I keep my eyes fixed upon Him, my shining Star, then all the rest vanishes and I lose myself as a drop of…
Sunday, June 12th
Through perseverance in its spiritual exercises without consolation or satisfaction, the soul practices the love of God. – St. John of the Cross