A want of will is the chief obstacle to our becoming saints. We are not holy because we do not really wish …
Saints
December 17, 2016
St Laurence, who joked “turn me over, I’m done on this side” while being burned Avoid worry, anxiety, uneasiness about anything. “The …
December 16, 2016
God has many gifts to bestow upon us, but none more precious than time. Yet how we abuse this royal gift! How …
December 15, 2016
St John of the Cross Surely you are not right in trying to keep our Lord away from you, or in thinking …
December 14, 2016
St Lucy It is scarcely necessary to state that deliberate sin in any shape or form utterly destroys the interior life. COMMENT: …
December 13, 2016
I am sorry to see you suffer and yet glad that the cross is your portion. If I had at this …
December 12, 2016
St Maravillas of Jesus I want to be generous with God and to refuse Him nothing. I do not want to say, …
December 11, 2016
I believe strongly in corporal penance as a means to the end. But a denial of your own will often costs more …
December 7, 2016
St Nicholas of Myra I want you to make a greater effort to see the hand of God in everything that happens, …
December 6, 2016
Death of St Francis Xavier Xavier’s hour has come, the hour of his eternal reward and never-ending bliss. In a little hut, …
December 3, 2016