Posted: January 31, 2025
“Holiness comes down through the centuries without being degraded or corrupted. Holiness renders a person blessed. Holiness truly transforms a person and raises him or her to the highest level: God. Holiness fills a person with love and the Holy Spirit moves him or her. Holiness is the most beautiful thing in the world.” –Venerable
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Posted: January 30, 2025
“To be successful by the usual standards of the world means acquiring:/—power, while the saints relied on God’s omnipotence;/—riches, while the saints enjoyed the Creator’s abundant gifts;/—university degrees, while the saints shared in divine wisdom;/—admiration, while the saints rejoiced to be the objects of God’s love. Holiness is not the passive presence of God in
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Posted: January 29, 2025
“In the measure in which we [live out our vocation] generously we shall be brought to a spiritual and human maturity which we could not have reached in any other way, and outside of which is only illusion and escape.” –Sister Mary David Totah, O.S.B. (+ 2010) Intention: I have my trust and confidence
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Posted: January 28, 2025
“The saint is the man who is truly alive (cf. CCC 294). ‘The saints are the living ones,’ says Origen, ‘and the living ones are the saints.’ Holiness is life in its fullness. This means that God’s glory is going to be realized by the unfolding of all the potentialities he has put in our
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Posted: January 27, 2025
“Without prayer, the Gospel will be words but we will risk failing to meet the Person who is speaking, the Person who is training us, the Person whom we are following.” –Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl (1964) Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at
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Posted: January 26, 2025
“Saint Paul was not transformed by a thought but by an event, by the irresistible presence of the risen One whom subsequently he would never be able to doubt, so powerful had been the evidence of the event, of this encounter. It radically changed Paul’s life in a fundamental way.” –Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022)
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Posted: January 25, 2025
“Overcoming well means overcoming all the machinations of the devil. He serves up enticements, he is overcome by self-restraint; he inflicts pains and tortures, he is overcome by patience; he suggests errors, he is overcome by wisdom. As a last resort, when all these ploys have been defeated, he suggests to the soul, ‘Well done,
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Posted: January 24, 2025
“How precious must man be in the eyes of the Creator, if he ‘earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer’ (Easter Exsultet), and if God gave his only Son in order that man should not perish but have eternal life (Jn 3:16).” –Saint John Paul II (+ 2006) Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights
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Posted: January 23, 2025
“The Queen of Heaven was sanctified in the same way we are, by throwing the little straws of day-to-day renunciations onto the blazing fire of her heart. Our daily work is simply to climb the steep road that leads from earth to heaven. Smile and be kind to everyone. Sanctity is simply to carry out
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Posted: January 22, 2025
“It is very simple to be pleasing to Jesus; you have only to say to yourself: I can do nothing, but Jesus can do everything. After that, fall and rise again gaily until death.” –Mother Agnes of Jesus, O.C.D. (+ 1951) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are
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