March 9
“We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.”
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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Dependent on God
March 8
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
-St. Augustine
Lead someone to Him!
March 7
“To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
A serious warning cry
March 6
“This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Peace of heart
March 5
“But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure. In order to preserve it there is nothing more useful than renouncing your own will and substituting for it the will of the divine heart. In this way his will can carry out for us whatever contributes to his glory, and we will be happy to be his subjects and to trust entirely in him.”
-St Margaret Mary Alacoque
Run to Jesus!
March 4
“The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.”
-St. Augustine
Filled with holy fear
March 3
“For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.”
-St. Bernard
The storms that rage against it
March 2
“I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.”
-St. Faustina
The burden of afflictions
March 1
“Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases.”
-St. Rose of Lima
Mary’s love
February 28
“Think of what the Saints have done for their neighbor because they loved God. But what Saint’s love for God can match Mary’s? She loved Him more in the first moment of her existence than all the Saints and angels ever loved Him or will love Him. Our Lady herself revealed to Sister Mary Crucified that the fire of her love was most extreme. If Heaven and earth were placed in it, they would be instantly consumed. And the ardors of the seraphim, compared with it, are like cool breezes. Just as there is not one among all the Blessed who loves God as Mary does, so there is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does. Furthermore, if we heaped together all the love that mothers have for their children, all the love of husbands and wives, all the love of all the angels and Saints for their clients, it could never equal Mary’s love for even a single soul.”
-St. Alphonsus Liguori
