"There are so many things I would like to tell you, but Jesus will make you understand…"
St. Thérèse of Lisieux Novena 2021, Day 9: Jesus
St. Thérèse of Lisieux Novena 2021, Day 4: Transforming love
"The weaker we are, without desires, without virtues, the more suitable we are for the workings of this consuming and transforming Love..."
Quote of the day, 25 September: St. Teresa of the Andes
Jesus told me that He wants me to suffer with joy. This costs me so, but it is sufficient that He asks this, so that I'll try to do it.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux Novena 2021, Day 3: Ready to suffer
"Aren't you ready to suffer whatever the Good Lord wills? I know you do..."
St. Thérèse of Lisieux Novena 2021, Day 2: Loving my littleness
"What pleases him is to see me love my littleness and my poverty... That's my only treasure..."
St. Thérèse of Lisieux Novena 2021, Day 1: My desires
"My desires for martyrdom are nothing... My desires are a consolation that Jesus grants at times to weak souls like mine"
St. Thérèse of Lisieux Novena 2021: Introduction
In this year's novena, our reflections will focus on St. Thérèse's mission to help us love God as she did. Our readings will come from Letter 197, written 17 September 1896 to her sister Marie of the Sacred Heart.
Give, descend, and serve – Silvio José Báez, O.C.D.
Jesus wants to eradicate three deadly verbs from our daily life: to have, to ascend, and to command; and in their place he proposes that we should cultivate these three life-giving verbs: to give, to descend, and to serve.
Quote of the day, 28 July: Blessed John Soreth
It is from Christ Himself, brother, that you will learn how to love Him.
Quote of the day, 19 July: Silvio José Báez, O.C.D.
We rest when we seek a "solitary place" (Mk. 6:31) to be silent; to enter into ourselves; to listen to our conscience and perceive, beyond our fears and tensions, the presence of God who loves and cares for us.
Quote of the day, 11 May: Silvio José Báez, O.C.D.
Christian love has a social and political dimension. We love when we design and organize social life in such a way that no one suffers
Quote of the day, 5 May: Père Jacques
Take war, for example... “Do you think that, if God existed and were omnipotent, he would allow such slaughter?"
Quote of the day, 3 May: Silvio José Báez, O.C.D.
Our fruitfulness in the world depends on prayer, where we welcome the words of Jesus to begin to think like him, see things as he would see them, and act in every situation as he would
Quote of the day, 2 April: St. Edith Stein
[Christ] stands, always and everywhere, before the face of God; his own soul is the Holy of Holies... He gazes upon the uncovered face of the Eternal One and has nothing to fear.
Quote of the day, 20 March: Blessed Titus Brandsma
Stay with me, with me, Jesus sweet, Your presence makes all things good for me.
Quote of the day, 14 March: St. Teresa of Avila
"No, my great love and the desire I have that souls be saved are incomparably more important than these sufferings"
Quote of the day, 5 March: St. John of the Cross
Christ acted this way with his disciples: He told them many parables and maxims the wisdom of which they did not understand
Quote of the day, 20 February: St. Edith Stein
He speaks His “Follow me”, and if a man is not for Him, he is against Him
Quote of the day, 7 February: Père Jacques
I would like to join with you in observing Christ at prayer. What was his prayer like?
When Jesus speaks — Silvio José Báez, O.C.D.
When Jesus speaks, it's obvious that something different. When Jesus comes forward to speak in the synagogue he doesn’t simply comment on what has been said in the past
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