January 13

“How to pray? This is a simple matter. I would say: Pray any way you like, so long as you do pray.”

                                                            -St. Pope John Paul the Great Read the rest…

January 12

“Prayer is both a gift of grace and a determined response on our part. It always presupposes effort.”

                                    -Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2725 Read the rest…

January 11

“We must pray literally without ceasing – without ceasing; in every occurrence and employment of our lives. You know I mean that prayer of the heart which is independent of place or situation, or which is, rather, a habit of lifting up the heart to God, as in a constant communication with Him.”

                                                                        -St. Elizabeth Seton Read the rest…

January 10

Like St. Teresa, with five pennies and God, I can accomplish many great things.

-St. Frances Cabrini Read the rest…

January 9

“What are our real trials? By what name shall we call them? One cuts herself out a cross of pride; another, one of causeless discontent; another, one of restless impatience or peevish fretfulness. Yet we know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life, that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.”

-From a conference by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Read the rest…

January 8

“The sweet fragrance of Christ noticed among men [is] not in a sudden burst of flame, but in the constant red-hot embers of virtues such as justice, loyalty, faithfulness, understanding, and cheerfulness.”

–St. Josemaría Escrivá, Christ is Passing By Read the rest…

January 7

 “What we mean, in the last resort, by ‘an answer to prayer,’ is that from the beginning of time, before He set about the building of the worlds, God foreknew every prayer that human lips would breathe, and took it into account. That, and nothing less, is the staggering claim which we make every time we say the ‘Our Father.’”

                                                           – Monsignor Ronald Knox Read the rest…

January 6

“The Creator of the universe awaits the prayer of one poor little soul to save a multitude of others, redeemed like her at the price of His Blood.”

                                                                        -St. Therese of Lisieux Read the rest…

January 5

“Prayer is not only the mutual presence of God and the soul. It is also a relationship between them, a relationship of intimacy, exchange, activity, and life indeed, it is the highest kind of life there is, the life of love, divine love.”

                                                            -Canon Jacques Leclercq Read the rest…

January 4

“Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God’s perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!”

                                                            -St. Pope John Paul II Read the rest…