Posted: April 24, 2025
“In spite of the fact that our planet is constantly being studded with fresh tombs, becoming more and more a burial ground in which man who emerged from dust returns to dust, nonetheless all who look to the tomb of Jesus Christ live in resurrection hope.” –Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) Intention: Lord,
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Posted: April 23, 2025
“Love, affective union, can take a double form. It is desire as long as the union with the beloved person is not realized; it becomes joy and fruition as soon as it is realized in some manner. This is why the spiritual life here below alternates between the search for Christ, the Beloved—desired above all
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Posted: April 22, 2025
“In a third garden our Lord continues his work—by rising from the dead. How fitting that his tomb should be in a garden—to complete the restoration of God’s original plan. Indeed, when she first sees him, Mary Magdalene takes our Lord to be the gardener…. He rises as the divine Gardener, to restore order, beauty,
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Posted: April 20, 2025
“God does not live in a distant castle, nor does he hide himself behind impenetrable anterooms. The door is open; it is called Jesus Christ. The celebration of Easter is intended to show us the radiant light that streams from this door.” –Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022) Intention: Lord, please give us a society
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Posted: April 19, 2025
“O when Risen Love has given himself again to the beloved Magdalen, may he not refuse to let us become sharers in her joy. Happy are we if the brightness of his Resurrection shines upon our hearts: if, the leaven of malice and wickedness being purged away, we may eat with holy eagerness the unleavened
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Posted: April 18, 2025
“Now Love is lifted up! It hangs from the tree. Its song of love descends upon the multitudes…while the final note of that most sublime of all symphonies (that began with the cry of a baby born in a manger) trembles in the air. It is consummated—a note no one was ever able to transcribe into
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Posted: April 17, 2025
“In that desolate garden of Gethsemane, Love who is God bends and takes from his beloved first the immense weight of original sin, then all sins, all the darkness that the soul has walked in, all its endless searchings, its shed and unshed tears, and—O miracle of love!—covers his own incomprehensible sinlessness, his white immaculateness,
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Posted: April 16, 2025
“Whenever the heart, by God’s grace in the soul, emerges out of turmoil into God’s victory and God is glorified, the person too is glorified. One has new strength to give new assents, and one also has a new understanding of the great fruit that comes out of dying…. We can never make any effort
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Posted: April 15, 2025
“Saint Paul tells us that our battles are with principalities and powers…. This means struggles of the heart, struggles with pride, struggles with vanity, all of these struggles with the things that belong to the fallen angels—pride, disobedience, non serviam: “I won’t do it.” The Father adds to his glory by our bearing much fruit in
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Posted: April 14, 2025
“God is glorified by our victory over our own human turmoil and tossings. It is not that we go serenely through life untroubled by temptation…. It is out of struggle and temptation that we turn to God…. This is marvelous holy living: many assents of the heart, much dying to self, much burying in the
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