December 1
“A few moments of meditation and recollection each morning in the presence of God transforms and perfumes the whole day, like flowers cast about when night comes, whose fragrance at dawn anoints everything they have touched.”
-Elisabeth Leseur
November 29
“If you know how to pray, then you will love prayer- and if you love to pray, then you will pray.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
November 28
“Not all women have fruits of their own womb, but all women are called upon to be mothers: that is, self-giving, self-sacrificing in the silence of their loving heart.”
-Alice Von Hildebrand, Ph.D.
November 27
“If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
-John 8:31-31
November 26
“The devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them.”
-St. John Vianney
November 25
“Pay the greatest attention to this: that your heart be ever glowing with love. Boiling water does not attract flies, lukewarm water does. In the same way the devil with all his impure thoughts shuns and keeps his distance from the soul aglow with love for God…”
-Blessed Baptista Varano
November 24
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
-Matthew 6:19-21
November 23
“Far from being like to those great souls who from their childhood practice all sorts of macerations, I made my mortification consist solely in the breaking of my will, restraining a hasty word, rendering little services to those around me without making anything of it, and a thousand other things of this kind.”
-Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
November 22
“Never must our wounded sensibilities make us indifferent or hardhearted…”
-Elisabeth Leseur
