
December 3
“Try to imagine how she [Our Lady] spent these months, waiting for her Son to be born. And our Lady, Holy Mary, will make of you alter Christus, ipse Christus: another Christ, Christ himself!”
-St. Josemaría Escrivá

December 3
“Try to imagine how she [Our Lady] spent these months, waiting for her Son to be born. And our Lady, Holy Mary, will make of you alter Christus, ipse Christus: another Christ, Christ himself!”
-St. Josemaría Escrivá

December 2
“Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another.”
-Caryll Houselander

December 1
“Jesus wants to see us dedicated, faithful, responsive. He wants us to love him. It is his desire that we be holy, very much his own.”
-St. Josemaría Escrivá

November 30
“On this first Sunday of Advent, when we begin to count the days separating us from the birth of the Savior... we have considered the reality of our Christian vocation: how our Lord has entrusted us with the mission of attracting other souls to sanctity, encouraging them to get close to him, to feel united to the Church, to extend the kingdom of God to all hearts. Jesus wants to see us dedicated, faithful, responsive."
-St. Josemaría Escrivá

November 29
"Yes, in silence we can actually break the hold time has on us, and accept that our true home is not here on earth, but in eternity."
-Sister Wendy Beckett

November 28
"I have given everything to my Master: He will take care of me. The best thing for us is not what we consider best, but what the Lord wants for us."
-St. Josephine Bakhita

November 26
"When Christ came, he banished the devil from our hearts, in order to build in them a temple for himself. Let us therefore do what we can with his help, so that our evil deeds will not deface the temple."
- St. Caesarius of Arles

November 25
"We must keep near to the souls God puts in our way, and try to understand and love them. Here we have discovered, by God's grace, the sources of peace and the means of possessing it fully."
-Elizabeth Leseur

November 24
"Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man."
-St. Teresa of Avila
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