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St. Teresa impresses upon her nuns, "Shouldn't we consider ourselves lucky to be able to repay something of what we owe Him for His service toward us? I say these words "His service toward us" unwillingly; but the fact is that He did nothing else but serve us all the time He lived in this world...."
St. Teresa of Avila counsels her daughters not to worry whether they are doing household chores or practicing mental prayer: "True humility consists very much in great readiness to be content with whatever the Lord may want to do with them and in always finding oneself unworthy to be called His servant."
"Do whatever he tells you" (Jn 2:5), were the instructions from the Mother of the Lord to the servants at the wedding banquet. Bishop Silvio José Báez reminds us that if we put his gospel into practice, our lives will be transformed in unexpected ways...
We continue St. Edith Stein's comment on woman's destiny and the Marian ideal: "woman has something in herself inherited from Eve, and she must search for the way from Eve to Mary."
When I read in the Gospel “that Mary went in haste to the hill country of Judea” to perform her loving service for her cousin Elizabeth, I imagine her passing by so beautiful, so calm and so majestic
St. John of the Cross reminds us that "God’s purpose is to exalt the soul". That is why he came down, "so profound is the humility and sweetness of God".
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.
How could a truly humble person think he is as good as those who are contemplative? Yes, it is true, God can make you a contemplative
What do you think serving God involves?
True humility consists very much in great readiness to be content with whatever the Lord may want to do with them
Do me the favor of hurrying to serve His Majesty
We are God’s most precious “investment”. The Lord made his riskiest, most important financial transaction when he created us.
My heart was filled with a burning hunger and thirst to win souls for the Divine Heart
No Caesar of this world can demand that which belongs to God.
Scripture presents Elijah as a man of crystalline faith
The Lord gives when He desires, as He desires, and to whom He desires
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If you desire to discover peace and consolation for your soul and to serve God truly, do not find your satisfaction in what you have left behind
In seeing itself rich, while not even deserving to eat the crumbs that fall from the table...
We hear every day of many murders, lost reputations, insults, squandered fortunes, rivalries, quarrels, and of so many adulteries, rapes, and fornications.
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Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. ~ St. Teresa of Avila
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