Thursday, May 5, 2011

Prayer

The soul should move toward prayer the way a fish should move toward water; they are both a purely natural state.
--Saint Jean Vianney

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Above all things

Love the Heart of Jesus; love Him foolishly; love Him above all things, immersing all your affections in Him without fear of sacrifice.
--Father Mateo, as quoted in Father Jean d'Elbee's I Believe in Love

Monday, May 2, 2011

Faithfulness

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

--Saint Augustine

Friday, April 29, 2011

Easter Friday

For men quickly change and presently fail; but Christ remains for ever, and stands by us firmly to the end.
--Saint Therese

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Easter Thursday

In the day of your solemnity, saith the Lord, I will bring you into a land that floweth with milk and honey, alleluia.
--Ex. 13.5 (Offertory for Easter Thursday) 

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Easter Tuesday

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
--Katherine Lee Bates

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Alleluia!

He is risen! He is truly risen! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

(A blessed and joyful Easter to you and your dear ones!)