22 November 2022
There is only one way leading upwards for all who see, lightened with
heavenly light. But many and dark and contrary are the ways of those who see
not. This way leads to the Kingdom of heaven, uniting man to God: but those
ways bring down to death, separating man from God. Therefore it is necessary
for you and for all who care for their own salvation to make your course
unswerving, firm, and sure by means of faith.
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
Thanksgiving
20 November 2022
For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?
Saint Nicholas Velimirovic
For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?
Saint Nicholas Velimirovic
On Temptations
19 November 2022
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
Saint Mark the Ascetic
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
Saint Mark the Ascetic
On Love
18 November 2022
Love is a great thing so long as it continually returns to its fountainhead, flows back to its source, always drawing from there the water which constantly replenishes it. Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Love is a great thing so long as it continually returns to its fountainhead, flows back to its source, always drawing from there the water which constantly replenishes it. Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Wondering
16 November 2022
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
On the Heart
15 November 2022
A heart that would contemplate must be bright as a mirror, shimmer like some still stretch of water crystal clear, so that in it and through it the mind may see itself, as in and through a mirror, an image in the image of God. The heart that covets the sight of God as in a mirror must keep itself free from cares, from harmful, unnecessary and even necessary ones. It must keep itself ever alert through reading, meditation and prayer. “Blessed are the pure of heart; they shall see God.” (Mt 5:8)
Isaac of Stella (12th Century)
A heart that would contemplate must be bright as a mirror, shimmer like some still stretch of water crystal clear, so that in it and through it the mind may see itself, as in and through a mirror, an image in the image of God. The heart that covets the sight of God as in a mirror must keep itself free from cares, from harmful, unnecessary and even necessary ones. It must keep itself ever alert through reading, meditation and prayer. “Blessed are the pure of heart; they shall see God.” (Mt 5:8)
Isaac of Stella (12th Century)
On Prayer
13 November 2022
Even though we may have had a powerful conversion experience, felt great fervor, and received immense graces, without fidelity to mental prayer our Christian life will soon reach a plateau and stall there.
Jacques Philippe
Even though we may have had a powerful conversion experience, felt great fervor, and received immense graces, without fidelity to mental prayer our Christian life will soon reach a plateau and stall there.
Jacques Philippe
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