July 16
"Among those around you, apostolic soul, you are the stone fallen into the lake. With your word and example produce a first ripple...and it will produce another...and then another, and another...each time wider."
- St. Josemaría Escrivá
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Without Difficulty
July 15
"Everyone knows that a guide is needed in order to climb a mountain without difficulty. The same thing happens when it is a matter of a spiritual climb...and even more so in that here one must avoid the pitfalls set by the devil, who dearly wants to bring us down.'"
-The Three Ages of the Interior Life,
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
The Way, the Truth and the Life
July 14
"Our sensible appetites, inclined to sensuality and to sloth, need to be vivified by contact with the virginal body of Christ, who endured most frightful sufferings for love of us. We, who are always inclined to pride, to lack of consideration, to forgetfulness of the greatest truths, to spiritual folly, need to be illumined by contact with the sovereignly luminous intellect of the Savior, who is 'the way, the truth, and the life.'"
-The Three Ages of the Interior Life,
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Secret Union with God
July 13
"The experience of contemplative prayer 'is a delightful, loving attention, at times a dry purifying desire, at other times a strong thirsting for Him. In the beginnings it is usually delicate and brief, but as it develops it becomes burning, powerful, absorbing, prolonged. Always it is transformative of the person.'"
--Fire Within, Thomas Dubay, S.M.
Sorrow for your sins
July 12
"A trusting humility brings us back into the light of communion between the Father and His Son Jesus Christ."
-Catechism of the Catholic Church #2631
Excuses
July 11
"So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God."
-2 Corinthians 5:20 (RSV)
Born of Woman
July 10
"But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman."
-Galatians 4:4 (RSV)
Battle Cry
July 9
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world."
-1 John 2:16 (RSV)
Infinite Goodness
July 8
"Nevertheless, He has willed that correspondence on the part of human beings is necessary, and has consequently placed in our nature the capacity for disposing ourselves towards receiving the supernatural action of grace. Through cultivating human virtues--resilience, loyalty, truthfulness, affection, courtesy--we prepare our soul in the best possible way for the action of the Holly Spirit."
-In Conversation with God
by Francis Fernandez
Holiness
July 7
"My soul magnifies the Lord,
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.
For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed;
for he who is mighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
And his mercy is on those who fear him
from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm,
he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts,
he has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree;
he has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent empty away.
He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his posterity for ever.”
-Luke 1: 46-55 (RSV)
