June 24
Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist
“Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.”
-Matthew 3:3
Tag Archives: grace
The Pharisees I see
June 23
“My daughter, I see more Pharisees among the Christians than there were
around Pilate.”
-St. Margaret of Cortona
What God Wills
June 22
Feast of St. Thomas More
“Do not let your mind by troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world. Nothing can come but what God wills. And I am very sure that whatever that be, however bad it may seem, it shall indeed be best.”
-St. Thomas More to his daughter
during his imprisonment
To be made straight
June 21
Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga
“I am but a crooked piece of iron and have come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance.“
-St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Finding Joy in the Cross
June 20
“I could not be happy without the Cross – I could not lay it down for all the world would give. With the Cross I am happy; but without it would be lost.”
–Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop
A Dating Hiatus
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
–Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Safe Against Error
June 19
“The soul that journeys in the light and the truth of the Faith is safe against all error.”
–St. Frumentius, Bishop
Lord, Save Us!
June 18
“Whenever any grievous temptation or vehement sorrow oppresses thee, invoke they guardian, thy leader; cry out to him and say, ‘Lord, save us, lest we perish!'”
–St. Bernard
Where the Mother is, there also is the Son
June 17
“Meditate often on the sorrows of the holy Mother, sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you seek the Cross, there you will find the Mother and where the Mother is, there also is the Son.“
-St. Paul of the Cross
Moment to Moment
June 16
“We should not wish for anything but what comes to us from moment to moment, exercising ourselves nonetheless for good.“
-St. Catherine of Genoa
