March 27
Be Willing to Sacrifice All For God
“The true child of Mary must be prepared to make the sacrifice necessary to overcome the love of created things with the love of the Creator.”
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Lenten Journey Day 41
March 26
Strive to Die to Yourself
“When God demands of a soul a great sacrifice, he strengthens the soul, through the vivifying power of His grace, to overcome all obstacles. Such a soul dies perfectly to itself, and its only desire is to remain spiritually dead to its natural inclinations as long as God wishes.”
Lenten Journey Day 40
March 25
Realize How Precious You Are
(Feast of the Annunciation)
“Oh, how precious are our souls to Jesus and Mary, our blood Brother and our mother. The best expression of our gratitude for such love is the irrevocable consecration of ourselves to them – in the gloom of uncertainty, in the anguish of doubt, in the heart-riving loneliness of interior desolation, when God seems to desert us, by complete abandonment to the divine will.”
Lenten Journey Day 39
March 24
Cherish Mary Your Mother, Day Two
“Mary cannot forsake us, because she is our Mother. If we confide our salvation to her loving care and faithfully imitate her virtues, she will fold us to her Immaculate Heart both now and at the hour of our death.”
Lenten Journey Day 38
March 23
Cherish Mary Your Mother, Day One
“What a truly marvelous privilege is ours! Mary being our mother, we share in her love of her divine Son. Let us stand in the spirit on the mount of crucifixion and listen to the dying Christ saying to each of us, ‘Behold thy mother.’”
Lenten Journey Day 37
March 22
Seek Holiness Through Your Daily Work
“Mary’s holiness kept pace with her labor. Through her faithful performance of her ordinary duties, she may be said to have attained, in the solitude of Nazareth, her greatest sanctity.”
Lenten Journey Day 36
March 21
Rely on God’s Providence
“Once we surrender ourselves to the divine will, obedience must be our solace and support. We must disregard the doubts with which Satan inspires us, by acting against them in confidence that God will provide for us even though to do so might cost Him a miracle.”
Lenten Journey Day 35
March 20
Bear Your Sufferings with Christ
“The way of the Cross is the only pathway to peace of mind here and to eternal peace hereafter...Only in the school of the cross can we learn the truest wisdom, the knowledge of Jesus Christ and Him crucified...”
Our Ultimate Longing
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.”
C.S. Lewis
Lenten Journey Day 34
March 19
Remain Serene Even When Misunderstood, Day 2
“In the trials most repugnant to our natural selves, when we are misunderstood, misrepresented, or calumniated, let us be silent and, like Jesus and Mary, make no attempt at justification... The soul that is dead to itself has mastered the fine art of living.”
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