June 9
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The Daily Offering to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
"O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and suffering of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world.
I offer them for all the intentions of Your Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls, reparation for sins, the reunion of all Christians;
I offer them for the intentions of our Bishops and of all Apostles of Prayer and in particular for those recommended by our Holy Father this month."
What Saints are Made of
June 8
"Greatness and sanctity consist not in what one does but in how one does it. What ultimately gives quality to our actions is the love, energy, and perfection with which we perform them."
-Federico Suarez
God Found Me
June 7
"By reading and reflecting I found God; but by praying I believed that God found me and that He is a living reality and that we can love Him in the same way that we can love a person."
-Servant of God Madeleine Delbrel
Outstanding Faith
June 6
Feast of St. Norbert (1080 - 1134)
"Faith was the outstanding virtue of Norbert's life. Affable and charming, amiable to one and all, he was at ease in the company of the humble and the great alike."
-From the life of St. Norbert
Knowing our Spiritual Self
June 5
"Savior, your crucifixion marked the end of your mortal life; teach us to crucify ourselves and make way for our life in the Spirit. May your resurrection, Jesus, bring true greatness to our spiritual self and may your sacraments be the mirror wherein we may know that self."
-St. Ephrem
How could this be?
June 4
"How could this be?" Mary asked the angel. Gabriel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God."
Love, praise and adoration
June 3
"From the depths of my nothingness, I prostrate myself before Thee, O Most Sacred, Divine and Adorable Heart of Jesus, to pay Thee all the homage of love, praise and adoration in my power. Amen."
-St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Do I See God in Everyone?
Becoming a Martyr
June 1
Feast of St. Justin Martyr
"Though beheaded, and crucified, and thrown to wild beasts, in chains and fire, and all other tortures, we do not give up our confession; but the more such things happen, the more others, in larger numbers, become believers."
-St. Justin Martyr
Conquering the World
May 31
"Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world."
-Pope Pius IX