January 8
“Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”
-James 4:7
Category Archives: Gracelines
Hear God speak
January 7
“The chief exercise of prayer is to speak to God and to hear God speak in the bottom of your heart.”
-St. Francis de Sales
Prayer is not optional
January 6
“Prayer is not one occupation among many, but is at the center of our life in Christ.”
-St. John Paul II
The eyes of them both were opened
January 4
“Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.”
– Gen. 3:7
In His image
January 3
“So God created man in His own image.”
-Genesis 1:26
God is love
January 2
“God is love.”
-John 4:16
For God so loved
January 1
Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
– John 3:16
Bear thy Creator
December 31
Eve of the Feast of Mary, Mother of God
Mother benign of our redeeming Lord,
Star of the sea and portal of the skies,
Unto thy fallen people help afford –
Fallen, but striving still anew to rise.
Thou who dids’t once, while wond’ring
worlds adored,
Bear thy Creator, Virgin then as now,
O by thy holy joy at Gabriel’s word,
Pity the sinners who before thee bow.
-Roman Breviary, Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin
The highest dignity
December 30
“God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of Mother of God is the highest dignity that can be conferred on a creature.”
-St. Bonaventure
Glory Itself
December 29
“The first thing which kindles ardor in learning is the greatness of the teacher. What is greater than the Mother of God? What more glorious than she whom Glory Itself chose?”
-St. Ambrose of Milan
