December 16
“Thanks to her vow of surrender, everything is divinely disposed for this direct hold of God’s word over her.”
-Fr. Marie-Dominique Philippe, O. P.
Tag Archives: Advent
He waits for our assent
December 15
“God wants to transform us by His grace and to sanctify us, but before He does so, He waits for our assent. When this yes is complete and total, as Mary’s was, God will accomplish His work in us.”
-Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, OCD
Waiting for God
December 14
“… the spirituality of waiting is not simply our waiting for God. It is also participating in God’s waiting for us…”
-Henri J. M. Nouwen
The secret of waiting
December 13
“The secret of waiting is that the seed has been planted, that something has begun.”
-Henri J. M. Nouwen
For God
December 12
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
“The Word of God is present in [Mary], dwells within her, and takes hold of all the capabilities of her intelligence, her heart, her sensibility. Her entire being is mobilized by God and for God.”
-Fr. Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P.
Waiting patiently
December 11
“Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.”
-Simone Weil
Onward to Bethlehem
December 10
“And when the hour had come that was to move
The long days onward to Bethlehem…
a moment paused,
Above a quiet place, and found, just this,
A woman wrapped in silence, and the seed
Of silence was her heart that tried to give
All that it held to give, and ever more.”
-John W. Lynch, Excerpt from A Woman Wrapped in Silence
The coming of life
December 9
“The Father of mercies willed that the Incarnation should be preceded by assent on the part of the predestined mother, so that just as a woman had a share in the coming of death so also should a woman contribute to the coming of life.’
-Lumen Gentium #56
Pure as the stars
Pure and spotless
December 7
“Within the sphere of humanity and in the natural world, there had to be a pure and spotless being capable of receiving the divine element, a feminine principle enlightened by grace.”
-Nicholas Berdyaev
