March 8
“To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.”
-Pope St. Gregory I
Tag Archives: lent
Accepting the cross
March 7
“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”
-St. Rose of Lima
A love beyond our capacity
March 6
“There are ways of being crucified that do not involve rough wood or heavy nails, but a love beyond our capacity to love, which means a love that has been given to us by God…”
-Servant of God Catherine Doherty
The ‘door’ to Lent
Make this Lent different
March 4
“O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.”
-Father Henri Nouwen
Your true homeland
March 3
“Christ has gained for us not only new dignity in our life on earth, but above all the new dignity of the children of God, called to share eternal life with him. Lent invites us to overcome the temptation of seeing the realities of this world as definitive and to recognize that ‘our homeland is in heaven’ (Phil 3:20)”
-Pope St. John Paul II
Give it to Jesus
March 2
“There are a lot of things you can give to Jesus—I don’t like to say, ‘Give it up.’ Well, you’re going to take it back. But give it to Jesus for Lent.”
-Mother Angelica
Prayerfully consider how to spend this Lent
March 1
“Do you wish your prayer to fly toward God? Make for it two wings: fasting and almsgiving.”
-St. Augustine
O Holy Spirit
April 2
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
O Holy Sprit, Soul of my soul I adore Thee.
Enlighten, guide, strengthen and console me.
Tell me what I ought to do, then command me to do it.
I promise to be submissive to all that Thou asks of me,
and to accept all that Thou permittest to happen to me,
only show me what is Thy will. Amen.
-Joseph Cardinal Mercier
Love and truth
April 1
“Avoid truth without love, love without truth.”
-St. Edith Stein
(St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
