March 4
“Our rest in a world that is full of unrest is Christ’s trust in His Father, our peace in a world without peace is our surrender, complete as the surrender of the sleeping child to its mother, of the Christ in us to God...”
-Caryll Houselander
March 3
“Realization of our oneness in Christ is the only cure for human loneliness. For me, too, it is the only ultimate meaning of life, the only thing that gives meaning and purpose to every life.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 2
“The Host is resting among us in order that Christ may work the miracle of His love in us, changing us almost imperceptibly into Himself, that through us His love may overcome the world.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 1
“There are very many Catholics who are so intent upon exterior activities, and on activities which are divorced from what should be their daily life, that they allow no rest either to themselves or those who are near them: they leave no part in the world’s conversion to God, and forgetting His immemorial law, His way of acting in the world, they fail to surrender their lives to the Infant Christ…”
-Caryll Houselander
February 28
“… however difficult or however insignificant our life may seem to be, it is precious to God as Christ is precious to God. On each one in whom Christ lives, the whole of the infinite love of God is concentrated at every moment. If this were realized there could be no one who could not fulfill the first condition of rest, which is trust.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 27
“The power of Christ is able to control fiercer storms than those of the wind and the sea. It is able to still the torrents of evil of the whole world in the stillness of his own heart. It is the power which enables him to command the floods of all the sorrow in the world and hold them within his peace. It is the power which can not only give life back to the dead, but can change death itself to life. It is the power of divine love.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 26
“We could scrub the floor for a tired friend, or dress a wound for a patient in a hospital, or lay the table and wash up for the family; but we shall not do it in martyr spirit or with that worse spirit of self-congratulation, of feeling that we are making ourselves more perfect, more unselfish, more positively kind.
We shall do it just for one thing, that our hands make Christ's hands in our life, that our service may let Christ serve through us, that our patience may bring Christ's patience back to the world.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 25
“Everything that Christ said and did and experienced on earth is the Word saying, 'see how God loves you!'”
-Caryll Houselander
February 24
“Disasters are not God’s will; they are the result of sin and opposed to God’s will. But in His mercy He does allow that the suffering resulting from them, though never the sin that caused them, can be caught up into His love and do good.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 23
“Rest is not idleness; indeed, restlessness is the torment of idle people. It is not relaxation. Relaxation should never be necessary, because the nervous tension which makes it so should never be present. Rest, far from being relaxation, is a culmination, a fullness of gathered peace, like the fullness and stillness of waters gathered to a flood tide.”
-Caryll Houselander
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