There is no rule for vocations, no age-limit for the call. Innocence attracts the gaze of God, deep-rooted habits of sin, provided …
Virtues
December 20, 2018
“I have called upon Thee in the day of my trouble” (Psalm 85. 7). Jesus is our comforter. What burden is there …
December 18, 2018
A want of will is the chief obstacle to our becoming saints. We are not holy because we do not really wish …
December 17, 2018
Avoid worry, anxiety, uneasiness about anything. “The devil’s boiling pot” expresses this state of mind; one trouble ended, another crops up to …
December 16, 2018
God has many gifts to bestow upon us, but none more precious than time. Yet how we abuse this royal gift! How …
December 15, 2018
St John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church Surely you are not right in trying to keep our Lord away from …
December 14, 2018
St Lucy It is scarcely necessary to state that deliberate sin in any shape or form utterly destroys the interior life. COMMENT: …
December 13, 2018
I am sorry to see you suffer and yet glad that the cross is your portion. If I had at …
December 12, 2018
St Maravillas of Jesus I want to be generous with God and to refuse Him nothing. I do not want to say, …
December 11, 2018
Let us love silence and recollection. When we are at home with silence we are at home with God. Silence seems impossible …
December 10, 2018