News - November 2019

Consult God more than your books, and ask him, with humility, to make you understand what you read. Go from time to time to refresh them at the feet of Jesus Christ under His cross. Some moments of repose in his sacred wounds give fresh vigor and new lights.

Begin to practice self-denial in little things, so that later you will be able to do so in bigger ones.

The love of all mothers together is but a shadow compared to the love Mary has for each one of us.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Jesus works miracles for His dearest friends only after He has tested their faith. He let Lazarus die, even though Martha and Mary sent word that he was sick. But after the trial, what rewards! Lazarus rises from the dead.

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to immorality destroys grace.

Whoever walks always in God's presence, will never commit sin, but will preserve his innocence and become a great saint.

Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you? He burns with the desire to come into your heart... The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance.

Prayer is the expression of our desire for God, a desire which is itself God's gift.

O Mary, you are so anxious to help us that you are hurt when we do not ask you for graces.

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

As men and women made in the image and likeness of God, we were created to know the truth, to find in that truth our ultimate freedom and the fulfillment of our deepest human aspirations. In a word, we are meant to know Christ, who is himself “the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jn 14:6).

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Forgive others everything; yourself, nothing.

We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Learning unsupported by grace may get into our ears; it never reaches the heart. But when God’s grace touches our innermost minds to bring understanding, His Word which has been received by the ear sinks deep into the heart.

Those who love you for his sake will never desert you

The Lord has the right to be glorified by us at every moment. So if we waste time, we are robbing God of his glory.

Give me a man who has loved, and I will tell him what God is.