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“The more intensely and completely that an individual is himself, the more completely is he the part of the whole–the whole Christ.”
-Caryll Houselander
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Take up your cross daily
March 19
“But trust does not mean believing that God will spare us from suffering… To trust God means that we must know that whatever comes to us comes from His hand… Christ says: ‘Take no thought of tomorrow.’ He also says: ‘take up your cross daily.’ There is no need, in accepting sorrow, to look ahead, to imagine tomorrow, to ask for more or less, but just as we receive our joy day by day, so can we receive our sorrow day by day, and it will be measured day by day, by the love of God and our own littleness…”
-Caryll Houselander
Even in the busiest day
March 18
“There should be, even in the busiest day, a few moments when we can close our eyes and let God possess us. He is always present, always giving us life, always round us and in us, like the air we breathe; there should be moments at least when we become more conscious of His presence; when we become conscious of His presence; when we become conscious of it as the only reality, the only thing that will last forever…”
-Caryll Houselander
Guard against self-pity
March 17
“Trivial suffering is not trivial in its effects; it has tremendous power for good and tremendous power for evil; it can be destructive, and warp and sour our personality. It is almost always trivial suffering which, when it is not deliberately sanctified, results in the most lethal disease of the human character, self-pity.”
-Caryll Houselander
Do you dwell on past mistakes or sins?
March 16
“What is past is past; it cannot be undone, it cannot be changed by self-torture. When it is sinful it can be and should be confessed once, and only once, and then forgotten; when it is just a mistaken, confused or foolish thing, it should simply be left alone.”
-Caryll Houselander
Receive the love of God in silence and joy
March 15
“We certainly should pray all the time, praying with our hands, our bodies, our will, our acts; but in order to delight God and to build up the peace of our souls, besides the prayer in which we offer ourselves to God should be the prayer in which we let God give Himself to us. We should learn to receive the love of God in silence and joy–that is what is meant by relaxing.”
-Caryll Houselander
The voice of the Mystical Body of Christ
March 14
“The Liturgy expresses every passion, every emotion, every experience of the human heart. It is the song of the whole world; but it is also much more: it is the love-song of Christ in man, the voice of the Mystical Body of Christ lifted up to God. All our inarticulate longings and adoration, all our stammered, incoherent love, set in the tremendous metre of the Liturgy and lifted on the voice of Christ to our Heavenly Father.”
-Caryll Houselander
In times of conflict
March 13
“To become bitter, to want reprisals, to give way to hatred, is a temptation for many people; it is a temptation that is going to become greater day by day and hour by hour. It is all the more difficult to combat because it is not recognized by everyone as a temptation at all, indeed there is a growing number of people who think it right to hate...”
-Caryll Houselander
Turn outward in love
March 12
“No sooner do you begin to concentrate on the feelings and needs of people around you than your own feelings and needs become less important and your own fears begin to fade.”
-Caryll Houselander
Is there room in your heart?
March 11
“... there is neither room to receive God nor silence to hear His voice, even though He comes as light and little as a Communion wafer and speaks as soft as a zephyr of wind tapping on the window with a flower.”
-Caryll Houselander
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