27 April 2021

Prayer and Holy Scripture

If you don’t have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

       Matthew Kelly (1973 -

26 April 2021

On Devotion

You must seek earnestly the grace of devotion, ask for it fervently, await it patiently and hopefully, receive it gratefully, guard it humbly, cooperate with it carefully and leave to God, when it comes, the length and manner of the heavenly visitation.

        Thomas à Kempis

25 April 2021

Preserving Until Death

Above all, as sanctity does not consist in being faithful for a day or a year but in persevering until death, we must use God as a shield which covers us completely because we are attacked from all sides. God must do everything. All the better; there will be no fear of failure. As for ourselves, we have only to acknowledge our powerlessness and to be fervent and constant in asking for help through the intercession of Mary, to whom God refuses nothing.

    Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)

24 April 2021

On Giving an Account

Beloved Christians, you and your children shall appear at the judgment of Christ, and you shall give account for them to the just Judge. He will not ask you whether you taught your children the arts or whether you taught them to speak French, or German, or Italian, but whether you have taught them to live as Christians.

        St Tikhon of Zadonsk

23 April 2021

On Humility

Humility, that is lowliness or self-abasement, is an inward bowing down or prostrating of the heart and of the conscience before God’s transcendent worth… For to pay homage to God by every outward and inward act, this is the first and dearest work of humility, the most savory among those of charity, and most meet among those of righteousness.

      Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)

22 April 2021

God’s Generosity

Someone filled with resentment and unhappiness, bitter that life is not as it should be, will be deeply disillusioned. On the other hand, people who are glad for what they have received, and thank God for what befalls them will receive still more, until finally being overwhelmed by God’s generosity.

        Jacques Philippe (1947-

21 April 2021

Curbing Our Passions

It is the part of a reasonable man not only to curb his passions to prevent them from coming to light either in word or deed, but also to rule them in such a way that everything is done by reason, nothing on impulse.

        Saint Ignatius of Loyola