January 28
“Good example is the most efficacious apostolate; you must be lighted lanterns and shine like brilliant chandeliers among men. By your good example and your words, animate others to know and love God.”
-St. Mary Joseph Rossello
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Have you become hardhearted?
January 27
“Never must our wounded sensibilities make us indifferent our hardhearted…”
-Elisabeth Leseur
How do you practice generosity?
January 26
“Far from being like to those great souls who from their childhood practice all sorts of macerations, I made my mortification consist solely in the breaking of my will, restraining a hasty word, rendering little services to those around me without making anything of it, and a thousand other things of this kind.”
-Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Where is your treasure?
January 25
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
-Matthew 6:19-21
Aglow with love for God
January 24
“Pay the greatest attention to this: that your heart be ever glowing with love. Boiling water does not attract flies, lukewarm water does. In the same way the devil with all his impure thoughts shuns and keeps his distance from the soul aglow with love for God…”
-St. Camilla Batista Varano
How have you experienced God’s mercy?
January 23
“Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin…”
-Psalm 51:1
Abandon sin
January 22
“The devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them.”
-St. John Vianney
Is your spiritual life worth it?
January 21
“If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
-John 8:31-31
Can others perceive God in you?
January 20
“Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived…”
-St. Hildegard of Bingen
Are your words life-giving?
January 19
“For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter;…”
-Matthew 12:34-36
