February 12
“If you would attain the purity you ask of me, there are three principal things you must do. You must be united with me in loving affection, bearing in your memory the blessings you have received from me. With the eye of your understanding you must see my affectionate charity, how unspeakably much I love you. And when the human will is concerned you must consider my will rather than people’s evil intentions, for I am their judge – not you, but I.”
--Our Lord to St. Catherine of Siena
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February 11
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
"I am the Immaculate Conception"
--The Blessed Virgin to St. Bernadetter Soubirous
For Reflection: Do I understand the meaning of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception -- that Mary was conceived without the blemish of original sin? I will ask the Blessed Mother today to enhance my appreciation of this great truth.
(Quote from Graceful Living)
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February 10
"The way of faith gives us more than the way of philosophical thought: it gives us God, near to us as person, who loves us and deals with us mercifully, giving us that security which human knowledge cannot give. But the way of faith is dark."
--St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
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February 9
“The perfection of a Christian consists in knowing how to mortify himself for the love of Christ…. Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.”
--St. Philip Neri
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February 8 Feast of St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin (1869 – 1947)
“If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and religious today.”
--St. Josephine Bakhita
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February 7
“Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.”
--St. Jane Frances de Chantal
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February 6
“Someone has said we do not save others by changing and converting and developing them; we redeem them by the love that accepts them and serves them as they are.”
--Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D. (Jessica Powers)
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February 5
Feast of St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr
“She wore the glow of a pure conscience and the crimson of the Lamb’s blood for her cosmetics...Her robe is the mark of her faithful witness to Christ.”
--St. Methodius on St. Agatha
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February 4
“The act and spirit of giving are the best counter to the evil forces in the world today, and giving liberates the individual not only spiritually but materially.”
--Dorothy Day
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February 3
Feast of St. Blaise
O God, deliver us through the intercession of Thy holy bishop and martyr Blaise, from all evil of soul and body, especially from all ills of the throat; and grant us the grace to make a good confession in the confident hope of obtaining Thy pardon, and ever to praise with worthy lips Thy most holy name. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.--From the Novena Prayer to St. Blaise
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