Posted: December 26, 2024
“If the blessed Stephen, facing that shower of stones, had not thought about the rewards to come, how could he have borne that terrible hailstorm? But he was bearing in mind the instruction of the one whose presence he could observe in heaven; and reaching out to him with the most ardent love, he longed
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Posted: December 25, 2024
“It is in this dark place of our heart that Christ wants the light of the world to begin to burn and from its burning to radiate, until it shines back from the face of humanity. Here it is that he wants the light to begin to shine in darkness and the life of the
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Posted: December 24, 2024
“Pious souls, cultivate the duties of family life. Be friends, Christian women, as Mary and Elizabeth were. Let your friendship be a work of piety and your conversations full of God; then Jesus will be in your midst and you will feel his presence. Men, you too should imitate these pious women. O God! Sanctify
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Posted: December 23, 2024
“What is baptism? It is the first and most necessary sacrament of the New Law, by which we are enrolled among the heirs of eternal life, because once it is conferred in water, by which we are spiritually reborn, and gain a full remission of sins, we are adopted into the sons of God….” –Saint
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Posted: December 22, 2024
“As the Father saw Eve disappoint him, he saw Mary prefer him; she was truly his obedient daughter. As our union with God must be with all three Persons, so Mary’s union progressed from Daughter of the Father, to Spouse of the Holy Spirit, to Mother of the Son. The new Eve renewed what the
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Posted: December 21, 2024
“And then the same Power that said to nothingness, Be made, enveloped the Woman like a shadow—elevated her to a state of union with God unheard of before and unthought of since. The beginning of the new kingdom had come. As the ‘No’ of one woman brought misery and darkness upon the world, so the ‘Yes’
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Posted: December 20, 2024
“The reason prayer is not easy or spontaneous to us is that prayer makes us conscious that we are limited…. [Prayer] is ‘the great pedagogy of God’ by teaching us our limitation and our need of God, to obtain from him what is lacking to us….” –Sister Mary David Totah, O.S.B. (+ 2017) Intention:
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Posted: December 19, 2024
“Have confidence and trust in the call of God. It’s not something that happened once and for all in the past, but continues to make itself felt throughout our life. Nor is our calling given all at once…. It’s important to keep the attitude of one who is called anew each day, of one who
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Posted: December 18, 2024
“God looks at the heart (1 Sm 16:7). It is here, then, that we must look to find the qualities which, in Saint Joseph, reflect the preference of God…. Indeed, what does the life of this truly chosen saint really reflect? Nothing but acts of obedience, acts accomplished with great generosity and tremendous docility. No desire
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Posted: December 17, 2024
“But a man can wait for the Lord the more trustfully if his conscience is so at rest as to let him say: ‘Every smallest possession of mine, Lord, is entirely yours, for I have treasured up in heaven all my powers, either by giving them to you or by renouncing them for you. At
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