31 March 2025
The most precious crown is reserved in heaven for those who do all that
they do as zealously as possible: for to do good deeds in not enough by itself;
we must do them well.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
His Presence in You
30 March 2025
When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.
Saint Francis de Sales
When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.
Saint Francis de Sales
There is One Lord
29 March 2025
There is one work because there is one mystery, there is one baptism because there is one death for the world. There is a unity of outlook which cannot be separated.
St. Ambrose
There is one work because there is one mystery, there is one baptism because there is one death for the world. There is a unity of outlook which cannot be separated.
St. Ambrose
Christ With You
28 March 2025
Place your heart gently in Our Lord’s wounds. Have great confidence in His mercy for He will never abandon you.
Saint Pio
Place your heart gently in Our Lord’s wounds. Have great confidence in His mercy for He will never abandon you.
Saint Pio
A Beautiful Paradox of Divine Love
27 March 2025
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting
Blessed Fulton Sheen
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting
Blessed Fulton Sheen
The Source of All Grace
26 March 2025
The source of all grace is God’s love for us, and he has revealed this not just in words but also in deeds.
Saint Josemaría Escrivá
The source of all grace is God’s love for us, and he has revealed this not just in words but also in deeds.
Saint Josemaría Escrivá
Our Own Need for God
25 March 2025
Out of this grows the love of our neighbors, for we now esteem them, and no longer judge them as we used to do, when we looked upon ourselves as exceedingly fervent, and upon others as not. Now we see nothing but our own need for God, which we keep so constantly before our eyes that we can look upon nothing else.
Saint John of the Cross
Out of this grows the love of our neighbors, for we now esteem them, and no longer judge them as we used to do, when we looked upon ourselves as exceedingly fervent, and upon others as not. Now we see nothing but our own need for God, which we keep so constantly before our eyes that we can look upon nothing else.
Saint John of the Cross
God's Mercy
24 March 2025
If we stop to think how great is the mercy of God, we would never cease doing all the good we can, for while we on our side, for love of him, give to the poor what he gives us he promises us a hundred fold in Heavenly glory.
Saint John of God
If we stop to think how great is the mercy of God, we would never cease doing all the good we can, for while we on our side, for love of him, give to the poor what he gives us he promises us a hundred fold in Heavenly glory.
Saint John of God
On Morning Prayer
23 March 2025
The essence of morning prayer is to thank God for sleep, rest and regained strength and to pray that He will help us do everything to His glory. Express this to Him with your mind and with your whole heart.
Saint Theophan the Recluse
The essence of morning prayer is to thank God for sleep, rest and regained strength and to pray that He will help us do everything to His glory. Express this to Him with your mind and with your whole heart.
Saint Theophan the Recluse
Draw Near to God
22 March 2025
Both Holy Scriptures and personal experience testify that, in order to draw near to God, it is necessary for the sinner to suffer, weep, shed tears, and convert his deceitful heart.
Saint John of Kronstadt
Both Holy Scriptures and personal experience testify that, in order to draw near to God, it is necessary for the sinner to suffer, weep, shed tears, and convert his deceitful heart.
Saint John of Kronstadt
God's Infinite Mercy
21 March 2025
What God asks of us and offers us is simply to receive his infinite mercy. That God loves us is a reality sometimes hard to comprehend. But when we discover that his love is forgiveness above all else, our hearts find peace and are even transformed.
Brother Roger of Taize
What God asks of us and offers us is simply to receive his infinite mercy. That God loves us is a reality sometimes hard to comprehend. But when we discover that his love is forgiveness above all else, our hearts find peace and are even transformed.
Brother Roger of Taize
The Saving Communion
20 March 2025
Inexpressibly great must be the value of our souls, since they are fed with the precious ransom of their own redemption.
Johann Gerhard
Inexpressibly great must be the value of our souls, since they are fed with the precious ransom of their own redemption.
Johann Gerhard
God With Us
19 March 2025
Don’t think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
Thomas à Kempis
Don’t think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
Thomas à Kempis
Through the Spirit
18 March 2025
From the Spirit comes foreknowledge of the future, understanding of the mysteries of faith, insight into the hidden meaning of Scripture, and other special gifts. Through the Spirit we become citizens of heaven, we enter into eternal happiness, and abide in God. Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspirations – we become God.
Saint Basil the Great
From the Spirit comes foreknowledge of the future, understanding of the mysteries of faith, insight into the hidden meaning of Scripture, and other special gifts. Through the Spirit we become citizens of heaven, we enter into eternal happiness, and abide in God. Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspirations – we become God.
Saint Basil the Great
The Holy Trinity
17 March 2025
I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness of the Creator of creation.
St. Patrick
I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness of the Creator of creation.
St. Patrick
On Fasting
16 March 2025
For the honor of fasting consists not in abstinence from food, but in withdrawing from sinful practices. […]
If you see a poor man, take pity on him! If you see an enemy, be reconciled to him! If you see a friend gaining honor, do not envy him. […]
What advantage is it, if we have gone through the fast devoid of works?
If another says, “I have fasted the whole of Lent,” you should say, “I had an enemy, but I was reconciled; I had a custom of evil-speaking, but I put a stop to it; I had a custom of swearing, but I have broken through this evil practice.”
St. John Chrysostom
For the honor of fasting consists not in abstinence from food, but in withdrawing from sinful practices. […]
If you see a poor man, take pity on him! If you see an enemy, be reconciled to him! If you see a friend gaining honor, do not envy him. […]
What advantage is it, if we have gone through the fast devoid of works?
If another says, “I have fasted the whole of Lent,” you should say, “I had an enemy, but I was reconciled; I had a custom of evil-speaking, but I put a stop to it; I had a custom of swearing, but I have broken through this evil practice.”
St. John Chrysostom
The Marvels of the Passion
15 March 2025
Amongst all the marvels of the passion what we should most dwell upon is the unspeakable love with which Christ suffered for us, that we may love Him more and suffer with Him more sweetly. But chiefly that we may imitate Him, and be conformed to His image.
Saint Louis de Blois
Amongst all the marvels of the passion what we should most dwell upon is the unspeakable love with which Christ suffered for us, that we may love Him more and suffer with Him more sweetly. But chiefly that we may imitate Him, and be conformed to His image.
Saint Louis de Blois
Imitate Christ’s Life
14 March 2025
We must imitate Christ’s life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.
Thomas à Kempis
We must imitate Christ’s life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.
Thomas à Kempis
The Spirit
13 March 2025
The spirit is the source of holiness, a spiritual light, and he offers his own light to every mind to help it in its search for truth. By nature the Spirit is beyond the reach of our mind, but we can know him by his goodness. The power of the Spirit fills the whole universe, but he gives himself only to those who are worthy, acting in each according to the measure of his faith.
Saint Basil the Great
The spirit is the source of holiness, a spiritual light, and he offers his own light to every mind to help it in its search for truth. By nature the Spirit is beyond the reach of our mind, but we can know him by his goodness. The power of the Spirit fills the whole universe, but he gives himself only to those who are worthy, acting in each according to the measure of his faith.
Saint Basil the Great
On Righteousness
12 March 2025
We are then righteous when we confess that we are sinners, and our righteousness depends not upon our own merits, but on the mercy of God, as the Holy Scripture says, "The righteous man accuses himself when he begins to speak," and elsewhere, "Tell your sins that you may be justified." Romans 11:32 "God has shut up all under sin, that He may have mercy upon all." And the highest righteousness of man is this—whatever virtue he may be able to acquire, not to think it his own, but the gift of God.
St. Jerome
We are then righteous when we confess that we are sinners, and our righteousness depends not upon our own merits, but on the mercy of God, as the Holy Scripture says, "The righteous man accuses himself when he begins to speak," and elsewhere, "Tell your sins that you may be justified." Romans 11:32 "God has shut up all under sin, that He may have mercy upon all." And the highest righteousness of man is this—whatever virtue he may be able to acquire, not to think it his own, but the gift of God.
St. Jerome
On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins
11 March 2025
See how Job, too, confesses his sins, and says how sure he is that there is none righteous before the Lord. He is also sure of this, that 'if we say we have no sin...the truth is not in us.' While, therefore, God bestows on him His high testimony of righteousness, according to the standard of human conduct, Job himself took his measure from that rule of righteousness, which, as well as he can, he beholds in God. Knowing this is true, he goes on to say, 'How will a mortal be just before the Lord?'
St. Augustine
See how Job, too, confesses his sins, and says how sure he is that there is none righteous before the Lord. He is also sure of this, that 'if we say we have no sin...the truth is not in us.' While, therefore, God bestows on him His high testimony of righteousness, according to the standard of human conduct, Job himself took his measure from that rule of righteousness, which, as well as he can, he beholds in God. Knowing this is true, he goes on to say, 'How will a mortal be just before the Lord?'
St. Augustine
A Submissive Heart
10 March 2025
The heart is where faith and righteousness is received through the Word in which God reveals and affects the person's relationship to himself. A heart submissive to God and clinging to his chosen words of grace then yearns for ongoing conformation, healing and renewal.
Jared Wicks
The heart is where faith and righteousness is received through the Word in which God reveals and affects the person's relationship to himself. A heart submissive to God and clinging to his chosen words of grace then yearns for ongoing conformation, healing and renewal.
Jared Wicks
Doing the Father's Will
9 March 2025
Jesus is not deflected at His temptation. When subsequently tempted to put on a show of power that would reveal a God who would fit our notions, Jesus resolutely refuses. He never uses His power for Himself. Jesus is the man for others. As such He had no basis for fear, for fear is self-regarding. Jesus came to do the Father’s will that was “for us and for our salvation.” It was the weight of what that involved, not fear, that brought Jesus low in Gethsemane. Yet He held to the Father’s will and went on to Calvary. There Jesus did what only He could do. He did it for us, for if we had to bear our sin’s burden that would be the end of us.
Norman Nagel
Jesus is not deflected at His temptation. When subsequently tempted to put on a show of power that would reveal a God who would fit our notions, Jesus resolutely refuses. He never uses His power for Himself. Jesus is the man for others. As such He had no basis for fear, for fear is self-regarding. Jesus came to do the Father’s will that was “for us and for our salvation.” It was the weight of what that involved, not fear, that brought Jesus low in Gethsemane. Yet He held to the Father’s will and went on to Calvary. There Jesus did what only He could do. He did it for us, for if we had to bear our sin’s burden that would be the end of us.
Norman Nagel
Our Righteousness
8 March 2025
We then say, that in many things we all of us offend, and that no man is pure from uncleanness, even though his life upon earth be but one day. Let us ask then of God mercy; which if we do, Christ will justify us; by Whom and with Whom, to God the Father, be praise and dominion, with the Holy Spirit, unto ages of ages. Amen.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
We then say, that in many things we all of us offend, and that no man is pure from uncleanness, even though his life upon earth be but one day. Let us ask then of God mercy; which if we do, Christ will justify us; by Whom and with Whom, to God the Father, be praise and dominion, with the Holy Spirit, unto ages of ages. Amen.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Clothed in Righteousness
7 March 2025
The adversary has deceived me; he has stripped me of my garment and stolen it away. Because of him I remain fruitless and must go to the judgment entirely naked. May Thy mercy be for me a robe in the day of judgment!
St. Ephrem the Syrian
The adversary has deceived me; he has stripped me of my garment and stolen it away. Because of him I remain fruitless and must go to the judgment entirely naked. May Thy mercy be for me a robe in the day of judgment!
St. Ephrem the Syrian
On Music
4 March 2025
I am not satisfied with him who despised music, as all fanatics do; for music is an endowment and a gift of God, not a gift of men. It also drives away the devil and makes people cheerful; one forgets all anger, unchasteness, pride, and other vices. I place music next to theology and give it the highest praise.
Martin Luther
I am not satisfied with him who despised music, as all fanatics do; for music is an endowment and a gift of God, not a gift of men. It also drives away the devil and makes people cheerful; one forgets all anger, unchasteness, pride, and other vices. I place music next to theology and give it the highest praise.
Martin Luther
Live by the Spirit
2 March 2025
Your brother does not cease to be your brother because he slips or offends you; that is when he has most need of your love. Loving your neighbor as yourself means that you should not obey the sinful nature, which, when it is offended, hates and bites and devours. Rather, you should wrestle against it by the Spirit and continue loving your neighbor, although you find nothing worthy of love in him. Our righteousness is much more abundant than our sin, because the holiness and righteousness of Christ our Mediator far exceeds the sin of the whole world, and the forgiveness of sins that we have through him is so great that it easily swallows up all our sins, so long as we live by the Spirit.
Martin Luther
Your brother does not cease to be your brother because he slips or offends you; that is when he has most need of your love. Loving your neighbor as yourself means that you should not obey the sinful nature, which, when it is offended, hates and bites and devours. Rather, you should wrestle against it by the Spirit and continue loving your neighbor, although you find nothing worthy of love in him. Our righteousness is much more abundant than our sin, because the holiness and righteousness of Christ our Mediator far exceeds the sin of the whole world, and the forgiveness of sins that we have through him is so great that it easily swallows up all our sins, so long as we live by the Spirit.
Martin Luther
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