April 2
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
O Holy Sprit, Soul of my soul I adore Thee.
Enlighten, guide, strengthen and console me.
Tell me what I ought to do, then command me to do it.
I promise to be submissive to all that Thou asks of me,
and to accept all that Thou permittest to happen to me,
only show me what is Thy will. Amen.
-Joseph Cardinal Mercier
April 1
“Avoid truth without love, love without truth."
-St. Edith Stein
(St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
Easter Sunday
Most glorious Lord of life that on this day
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin,
And having harrowed hell didst bring away
Captivity thence captive us to win;
Holy Saturday
I am not moved to love Thee, O my Lord,
By any longing for Thy Promised Land;
Nor by the fear of hell am I unmanned
To cease from my transgressing deed or word.
Good Friday
Jesus:
O Mother dear, didst thou but hear
My plaint of desolation,
Thy tender heart would burst apart
With grief of separation!
Holy Thursday
Prone in Gethsemene upon His face,
His eyelids closed, — lay Christ of all our world,
March 27
“We still have one short question to answer: 'How are Catholic women to accomplish their providential role as spiritual mothers (with Mary) of the human race?' The answer is simplicity itself. Like Mary –
-Fr. John A Hardon, S.J.
March 26
“The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
March 25
“The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must ‘go out of oneself’; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
March 24
“I am confident that the Holy Spirit is sending down His gifts of fiery tongues on the Church today – and with emphasis on the women. He is inspiring them to follow in Mary’s footsteps and do for the beleaguered faithful in our day what she did for the infant Church in her day. Time and again our Holy Father has appealed to the faithful women as they stand beneath Christ’s bleeding Mystical Body to carry on Mary’s role as Mother of the Church in our time.”
-The Apostolate of Women by Fr. John Hardon, S.J.
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