June 14
“Give up prayer, and you no longer see the inwardness of things; you see only the surface. And with nothing to go by but effects, statistics, and evidence supplied by natural perceptions, you arrive at the wrong conclusions.”
-Dom Hubert Van Zeller Read the rest…
June 13
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua (1231)
“Actions speak louder than words. Let your words teach and your actions speak.”
–St. Anthony of Padua Read the rest…
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June 12 “Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.” -St. Francis de Sales Read the rest… |
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June 11 “A quality unique to woman is her singular sensitivity to moral values and an abhorrence of all which is low and mean; this quality protects her against the dangers of seduction and total surrender to sensuality.” -St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Read the rest… |
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June 10 “Yes, we are all sinners, but let us never forget that we are saved sinners. It is obvious that we are going to stumble a million times between our birth and death. But when we look at the Gospel, we see immediately that God came, not for the perfect ones, but for sinners. That means each one of us.” — Catherine Doherty Today’s Reflection: What solace these words bring to me as I consider my latest regret, my latest transgression! Thank you, Jesus, for reminding me today of your saving act of redemption.
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June 9
Feast of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor (306 – 373)
“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 Read the rest…
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 Read the rest…
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 Read the rest…
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 Read the rest…
June 5
“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.” Read the rest…
