In his retreat for the Carmel of Pontoise in 1943, the Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus, OCD offered a meditation on The Divine Preparation in Mary and in Us. His essential point was this: "Divine preparations are always and above all spiritual rather than material."
Quote of the day, 3 August: Brother Lawrence
Writing to a nun, as he could to each one of us, Brother Lawrence prays for patience and strength that she may be able to suffer as long as God desires. "Find consolation in him... happy are they who suffer with him."
St. Edith Stein Novena 2022: Day Four
St. Edith Stein the catechist teaches us today that "God the Creator is present in each thing and sustains it in existence [...] God dwells in this manner in every human soul, also." The soul, Edith says, "is in his power." As St. Edith said after she read St. Teresa's autobiography, "This is truth." Jesus tells, "you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Quote of the day, 7 July: Jessica Powers
Jessica Powers offers this reflection on the Virgin Mary, 'Full of Grace': "Your own reflection has revealed Your place, for she is utter light by Your own grace..."Your own grace...
Quote of the day, 28 May: St. Edith Stein
St. Edith Stein indicates that there is an inexhaustible source of power for women who are tested beyond their "strength of body and nerves", and "it depends only on knowing one's way and going to this source again and again."
Quote of the day, 25 May: St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi
Come Holy Spirit. [...] Come, you who, descending into Mary, caused the Word to take flesh: effect in us by grace what you accomplished in her by grace and nature.
Marie du jour 2022, 19 May: St. Edith Stein
St. Edith Stein explains how the love of Christ impels virginal souls "to descend into the darkest night": in this way, they resemble the Virgin of virgins who, beneath the cross, became the Mother of Grace.
Marie du jour 2022, 18 May: Cardinal Anders Arborelius
Cardinal Arborelius leads us on a brief meditation on the responsiveness of Our Lady: "With all her soul and with all her personality, Mary wants to be an answer to God and His will."
Quote of the day, 21 January: Mother Agnès of Jesus
If we beg the grace to be profoundly humble [...] then everything in our souls will become pleasing to the Lord.
Quote of the day, 7 January: Brother Lawrence
A soul depends on grace in proportion to its desire for greater perfection. God's help is necessary at every moment because, without it, the soul can do nothing.
Quote of the day, 15 December: Mother Agnès of Jesus
We must be in darkness to see the divine light pass over us...
St. Thérèse of Lisieux Novena 2021, Day 7: Trust
"It's trust and nothing but trust that must lead us to Love"
Quote of the day, 5 August: Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
God's help is necessary at every moment because without it the soul can do nothing.
Quote of the day, 5 July: St. Raphael Kalinowski
Approaching confession from the abyss of her misery, she casts off everything, desiring to preserve in herself only the image of God according to which she was created
Marie du jour 2021, May 23: St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi
Come, you who, descending into Mary, caused the Word to take flesh: effect in us by grace what you accomplished in her by grace and nature.
Quote of the day: 5 October
It was absolute solitude, that solitude in which God speaks to the heart
Quote of the day: 22 September
What a grace to have faith! If I didn't have faith, I would have killed myself...
Quote of the day: 8 September
And in her light I find You hid within me
Quote of the day: 5 July
All of us who wear this holy habit of Carmel are called to prayer and contemplation
Quote of the day: 4 July
I who bear God in the mysteries of grace beseech her: Cloud, encompass God and me.
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