March 17
“Trivial suffering is not trivial in its effects; it has tremendous power for good and tremendous power for evil; it can be destructive, and warp and sour our personality. It is almost always trivial suffering which, when it is not deliberately sanctified, results in the most lethal disease of the human character, self-pity.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 16
“What is past is past; it cannot be undone, it cannot be changed by self-torture. When it is sinful it can be and should be confessed once, and only once, and then forgotten; when it is just a mistaken, confused or foolish thing, it should simply be left alone.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 15
“We certainly should pray all the time, praying with our hands, our bodies, our will, our acts; but in order to delight God and to build up the peace of our souls, besides the prayer in which we offer ourselves to God should be the prayer in which we let God give Himself to us. We should learn to receive the love of God in silence and joy–that is what is meant by relaxing.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 14
“The Liturgy expresses every passion, every emotion, every experience of the human heart. It is the song of the whole world; but it is also much more: it is the love-song of Christ in man, the voice of the Mystical Body of Christ lifted up to God. All our inarticulate longings and adoration, all our stammered, incoherent love, set in the tremendous metre of the Liturgy and lifted on the voice of Christ to our Heavenly Father.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 13
“To become bitter, to want reprisals, to give way to hatred, is a temptation for many people; it is a temptation that is going to become greater day by day and hour by hour. It is all the more difficult to combat because it is not recognized by everyone as a temptation at all, indeed there is a growing number of people who think it right to hate...”
-Caryll Houselander
March 12
“No sooner do you begin to concentrate on the feelings and needs of people around you than your own feelings and needs become less important and your own fears begin to fade.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 11
“... there is neither room to receive God nor silence to hear His voice, even though He comes as light and little as a Communion wafer and speaks as soft as a zephyr of wind tapping on the window with a flower.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 10
“The modern world's feverish struggle for unbridled, often unlicensed, freedom is answered by the bound, enclosed helplessness and dependence of Christ—Christ in the womb, Christ in the Host, Christ in the tomb.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 9
“To become a child is to know with a child’s intuition, to see with a child’s vision… to see human suffering, not with an adult’s reasonable despair, but with a child’s immediate, unquestioning compassion.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 8
“Face to face with one man, we cannot forget, we cannot fail to know what he wants and needs… All this can be forgotten and left out when one thinks in terms of “humanity,” but face to face with one man it cannot be forgotten”
-Caryll Houselander
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