September 3
“Your task may appear desperately difficult. Your enemies are more numerous than you; they have at their command inexhaustible resources; they are organized with a cleverness that one is almost tempted to call satanic.”
-Emil Neubert
Tag Archives: Daily Gracelines
Love for our heavenly mother
September 2
“Devotion to Mary is much like the love of a child for its mother, since after all, every devotion to Mary is love for our heavenly mother.
-Emil Neubert
Enmity
September 1
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. They will strike at your head, while you strike at their heel.”
-Genesis 3:15
We belong to Him
August 31
“Jesus has chosen us for Himself; we belong to Him. Let us be so convinced of this belonging that we do not allow anything, however small, to separate us from this belonging- from this love.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
Why be afraid to die?
August 30
“When a person loves another dearly, he desires strongly to be close to the other: therefore, why be afraid to die? Death brings us to God!”
-St. Josephine Bakhita
The reward of eternal joy
August 29
Feast of the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist
“His persecutors had demanded not that he should deny Christ, but only that he should keep silent about the truth. But to endure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was not a heavy burden for such men as John; rather it was easily borne and even desirable, for he knew eternal joy would be his reward.”
-St. Bede the Venerable about St. John the Baptist
Restless hearts
August 28
Feast of St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor (354 – 430)
“You have created us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they rest in you.”
-St. Augustine
Feast of St. Monica
August 27
Feast of St. Monica (331 – 387)
“One thing only I ask you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be.”
-St. Monica
Nothing half-hearted
August 26
“Nothing half-hearted for me–
I will follow Christ with all my heart and soul.”
-St. Therese of Lisieux
Influencing young souls
August 25
Feast of St. Joseph Calasanz, Priest (1557 – 1648)
“Like the twigs of plants the young are easily influenced, as long as someone works to change their souls.”
-St. Joseph Calasanz
