
St. Josemarie Escriva (1902-1975) Image courtesy of Wikicommons, Andres Tristan Pertinez, CC BY-SA 4.0
LL writes: “What do you think of Opus Dei? Is it New Age?”
February 20
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
February 19
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
-St. Therese of Lisieux
February 18
“Love, and the Lord will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.”
-St. Augustine
February 16
“Happy are we, beloved, if love enables us to live in harmony and in the observance of God’s commandments, for then it will also gain for us the remission of our sins.”
-St. Clement I
February 15
“If someone wishes to savor the joy of brotherly love with greater perfection and delight, he must extend even to his enemies the embrace of true love.”
-St. Aelred
February 14
“Love is never something that is ready-made, something merely ‘given’ to man and woman; it is always at the same time a ‘task’ which they are set. Love should be seen as something which in a sense never ‘is’ but is always only ‘becoming,’ and what it becomes depends upon the contribution of both persons and the depth of their commitment.”
-Pope St. John Paul II