April 7
St. Jean-Baptiste De La Salle (1651-1719)
“Adapt yourself with gracious and charitable compliance to all your neighbor’s weaknesses. In particular, make a rule to hide your feelings in many inconsequential matters.”
--St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle to his Christian Brothers
April 6
“However severe God’s guidance may seem to us at times, it’s always the guidance of a Father who is infinitely good, wise, and kind.”
--Traditionally attributed to St. Julie Billiart
April 5
St. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419)
“You must open the interior eyes of your soul on this light, on this heaven within you, a vast horizon stretching far beyond the realm of human activity.”
--From a letter of St. Vincent Ferrer
April 3
Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him.”
--Hebrews 5:8-9
April 2
"When we were baptized into Christ and clothed ourselves in Him, we were transformed into the likeness of the Son of God."
-St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures
Closing Prayer to Our Lady
O Mary, our Mother, with thine arms outstretched – those tender arms in which the eternal God delighted to dwell when He became our blood Brother – plead our cause. With thine eyes of mercy, beseech of Him for us, thy children, the grace that in our exile we may resemble thee, His most devoted follower, and so at last, in union with thee, may glorify Him forever!
Adorn Your Soul with Mary’s Virtues, Day 1
“...since the measure of our grace will always be inferior to [Mary’s}, we must adorn our souls with virtue through correspondence with the degree of grace that God bestows on us. Thus will we walk in her footsteps and, like her, grow in humility, in purity, and in love of God.”
“As our chief duty in life is the sanctification of our souls, we should strive with all our powers to advance to that standard of perfection that God has determined for each one of us. We should use all our efforts to grow daily in divine love.”
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