Posted: July 31, 2024
“Those then who die obeying the commandments die in the love of God. And those who love need never fear. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear (1 Jn 4:18)….” –Saint Alphonsus Liguori (+ 1787) Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You are bigger than any problem I could possibly
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Posted: July 31, 2024
“Imagine the leader of all the enemy in that great plain of Babylon. He is seated on a throne of fire and smoke, in aspect horrible and terrifying. Consider how he summons uncountable devils, disperses some to one city and others to another, and thus throughout the whole world, without missing any provinces, places, states,
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Posted: July 30, 2024
“[Jesus] was buried, so that he might undergo the entire process of death, so that death be put to death by death, so that by the seed of his body all the human bodies that had been planted would rise and be lifted up unto the harvest of life…. [And] if we believe that the Judge
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Posted: July 28, 2024
“Ordinary things await us at every moment of life. If we all accomplished our humble tasks with the heart of Jesus, his revolution of love would be complete and success would be in our hands! My surprise and joy will be great when I hear Jesus say to me, Well done, good and faithful servant; you
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Posted: July 28, 2024
“By your example, Lord Jesus, you have taught me to live close to reality and to value ordinary tasks: gathering leftover loaves and fish, fishing, cooking, buying oil, visiting the abandoned and sick, sharing food and clothes, loving, pardoning those who do me wrong… many completely ordinary responsibilities! Each of us carries out ordinary tasks
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Posted: July 26, 2024
“What wisdom was it, what knowledge, that made Our Lady able to accept these things and say, Be it done unto me according to thy word with so whole a will?… What was the secret which enabled her to translate all this suffering into joy? It was the secret of a twofold love, which our Lord
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Posted: July 25, 2024
“What baffling things [Our Lady] would have to face! The slaughter of the innocents and Christ the innocent cause of it, the flight from Herod, the life in exile, and the Child being hunted all his life long; his fasting, so much against the grain for a mother; his choice to be homeless, after all
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Posted: July 25, 2024
“Our Lady knew perfectly well what kind of a world it was into which Christ was to be born. It is strange that she did, for her own life had been sheltered enough, lived in Nazareth, an out-of-the-way village, lying in a ring of hills like the hollow in a chalice. Her future too was
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Posted: July 23, 2024
“The Word of God in the flesh made his abode in [the mother of God]…. He made our human nature divine, and bestowed on us, according to the holy apostle, things the angels desire to look into (1 Pt 1:12). Such is the extraordinary honor and all-surpassing glory of the Ever-Virgin.” –Saint Gregory Palamas (+ 1359)
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Posted: July 22, 2024
“The ways of God are not our ways. It is true that [the spiritual life] goes upward, but by our lowering ourselves. It is true that it purifies the soul, but in the midst of temptations and falls. It is true that its light increases, yet the light is one that is overshadowed with darkness.
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