Thursday, July 18th
Life is passing, Eternity draws nigh: soon shall we live the very life of God. After having drunk deep at the fount of bitterness, our thirst will be quenched at the very source of all sweetness. -St. Therese
Wednesday, July 17th
Contemplation is perceived more frequently in the will under the form of love, than in the intellect under the form of knowledge. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Tuesday, July 16th
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…
Monday, July 15th
Fasten your eyes on Him alone because in Him I have spoken and revealed all and in Him you will discover even more than you ask for and desire. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, July 14th
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
Saturday, July 13th
As soon as you try to please Him in everything and have an unshakable trust He purifies you every moment in His love and He lets no sin remain. -St. Therese
Friday, July 12th
I have made more acts of faith during the past year than in all the rest of my life. Whenever my enemy provokes me to combat, I try to behave like a gallant soldier. Aware that a duel is an act of cowardice, I turn my back on the foe…
Thursday, July 11th
When you are burdened you are close to God, your strength, who abides with the afflicted. When you are relieved of the burden you are close to yourself, your own weakness; for virtue and strength of soul grow and are confirmed in the trials of patience. – St. John of…
Wednesday, July 10th
Here there is no more to do than surrender our intellects and reflect that they are of no avail when it comes to understanding the grandeurs of God. -St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, July 9th
The soul should firmly resolve never to submit to defeat, for if the devil sees it staunchly determined to lose life and comfort and all that he can offer, rather than return to the first mansion, he will the sooner leave it alone. -St. Teresa of Avila