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
March 7
“I saw that it is the will of Christ’s love to be put into the hands of sinners, to trust Himself to man, that he may be their gift to one another, that they may comfort Him in each other, give Him to each other. In this sense the ordinary life itself becomes sacramental, and every action of anyone at all has an eternal meaning.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 6
“There is no cowardice in admitting that we are afraid, indeed we should not be human were we not. But we ought to realize that this fear, unless we face it and learn to understand and even manage it, will lead to hate.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 5
“… there is a law of God that starts from within us. It is the music of His creative love, its measure and beat and pause and stress, and it is within us because we are made in His image.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 4
“Our rest in a world that is full of unrest is Christ’s trust in His Father, our peace in a world without peace is our surrender, complete as the surrender of the sleeping child to its mother, of the Christ in us to God…”
-Caryll Houselander
March 3
“Realization of our oneness in Christ is the only cure for human loneliness. For me, too, it is the only ultimate meaning of life, the only thing that gives meaning and purpose to every life.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 2
“The Host is resting among us in order that Christ may work the miracle of His love in us, changing us almost imperceptibly into Himself, that through us His love may overcome the world.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 1
“There are very many Catholics who are so intent upon exterior activities, and on activities which are divorced from what should be their daily life, that they allow no rest either to themselves or those who are near them: they leave no part in the world’s conversion to God, and forgetting His immemorial law, His way of acting in the world, they fail to surrender their lives to the Infant Christ…”
-Caryll Houselander
February 28
“… however difficult or however insignificant our life may seem to be, it is precious to God as Christ is precious to God. On each one in whom Christ lives, the whole of the infinite love of God is concentrated at every moment. If this were realized there could be no one who could not fulfill the first condition of rest, which is trust.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 27
“The power of Christ is able to control fiercer storms than those of the wind and the sea. It is able to still the torrents of evil of the whole world in the stillness of his own heart. It is the power which enables him to command the floods of all the sorrow in the world and hold them within his peace. It is the power which can not only give life back to the dead, but can change death itself to life. It is the power of divine love.”
-Caryll Houselander
