January 3
“A person’s prayer often keeps step with his moral life. The closer our behavior corresponds to the Divine Will, the easier it is to pray; the more our conduct is out of joint with Divinity, the harder it is to pray.”
-Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
January 2
“When prayer is humble, trusting, and persevering, it obtains for us a more lively faith, a firmer hope, a more ardent charity. Thereby we see how fruitful mental prayer can be; how it draws God strongly toward us that He may give Himself intimately to us and that we may give ourselves to Him.”
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
January 1
"We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son."
--Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
December 2
“Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.”
-Thomas Merton
December 1
“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”
-St. Therese of Lisieux
November 30
“Merely to love things above is already to mount on high.”
-Pope St. Gregory the Great
November 28
“Lord, I will put myself at hell’s gate, so that I can stop anyone else from entering there.”
-Blessed Dominic Barberi
November 27
“God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end.”
-Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1037
