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January 16

“You don’t know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, ‘Lord, I don’t even know how to pray!’ you can be sure you have already begun.”

                                                                        -St. Josemaria Escriva

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January 15

“Do not distress yourself about your prayers. It is not always necessary to employ words, even inwardly, it is enough to raise your heart and let it rest on our Lord, to look lovingly up toward this divine Lover of our souls for between lovers the eyes speak more eloquently than the tongue.”

                                                                        -St. Francis De Sales

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January 14

“To pray well you must think of Jesus on the cross. Surely you can see how impossible it is to be distracted when you see your Brother crucified?”

-St. Andre of Montreal

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January 13

“How to pray? This is a simple matter. I would say: Pray any way you like, so long as you do pray.”

                                                            -St. Pope John Paul the Great

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January 12

“Prayer is both a gift of grace and a determined response on our part. It always presupposes effort.”

                                    -Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2725

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January 11

“We must pray literally without ceasing – without ceasing; in every occurrence and employment of our lives. You know I mean that prayer of the heart which is independent of place or situation, or which is, rather, a habit of lifting up the heart to God, as in a constant communication with Him.”

                                                                        -St. Elizabeth Seton

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January 10

Like St. Teresa, with five pennies and God, I can accomplish many great things.

-St. Frances Cabrini

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January 9

"What are our real trials? By what name shall we call them? One cuts herself out a cross of pride; another, one of causeless discontent; another, one of restless impatience or peevish fretfulness. Yet we know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life, that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.”

-From a conference by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

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January 8

"The sweet fragrance of Christ noticed among men [is] not in a sudden burst of flame, but in the constant red-hot embers of virtues such as justice, loyalty, faithfulness, understanding, and cheerfulness."

–St. Josemaría Escrivá, Christ is Passing By

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January 7

 “What we mean, in the last resort, by ‘an answer to prayer,’ is that from the beginning of time, before He set about the building of the worlds, God foreknew every prayer that human lips would breathe, and took it into account. That, and nothing less, is the staggering claim which we make every time we say the 'Our Father.'”

                                                           - Monsignor Ronald Knox

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