Friday, March 1st
The great proof of holiness is not to not have temptations or weariness, but to always go on, to react, to climb towards God. -Pere Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD
Thursday, February 29th
Instead of becoming discouraged, I say to myself, “The good God does not inspire us with desires that could not be realized. Therefore, in spite of my lowliness, I can aspire to sanctity.” – St. Therese
Wednesday, February 28th
Many of these beginners have also at times great spiritual avarice. They will be found to be discontented with the spirituality which God gives them; and they are very disconsolate and querulous because they find not in spiritual things the consolation that they would desire. – St. John of the…
Tuesday, February 27th
It is not human activity that can save us, but the sufferings of Christ. To take part in these is my aspiration. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, February 26th
… the soul (possessing a will the more generous and free the more it is united with God) gives to God, God himself in God; and this is a true and complete gift of the soul to God. -St. John of the Cross
Sunday, February 25th
As we said, the soul is not united with God in this life through understanding, or through enjoyment, or through imagination, or through any other sense; but only faith, hope, and charity (according to the intellect, memory, and will) can unite the soul with God in this life. -St. John…
Saturday, February 24th
Our Lord thirsts for our love. He suffered from Bethlehem to Calvary and forged chains by which to live in the tabernacle together with us. Don’t we have a little love for this Divine Beggar? – St. Teresa of the Andes
Friday, February 23rd
It would indeed be novel to think of having these favors from God through a path other than the one He took and the one followed by all His saints. – St. Teresa of Avila
Thursday, February 22nd
For when the sensory delight and gratification coming from things are quenched, neither the devil, nor the world, nor sensuality has arms or power against the spirit. – St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, February 21st
Then gradually, he becomes very small and humble; he grows patient and indulgent toward the splinter in strange eyes because the beam in his own is brought into being; and, finally, he also learns to be patient with himself in the inexorable light of the divine Presence and to surrender…