I Dunno…

You’re St. Jerome! You’re a passionate Christian, fiercely devoted to Jesus Christ and His Church. You are willing to labor long hours in the Lord’s vineyard, and you have little patience with those who are less willing or able to work as you do. Your passions often carry you into temptation zones of wrath, lust, and pride. Find out which Church Father you are at The Way of the Fathers!

A New Saint (to me, at least)

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Embrace the World

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True Peace

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Seek true peace, not upon earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in other things created, but in God alone.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Love’s Virtues

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

-St. Teresa of Avila

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Perseverance vs Conflict

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

The Lord has given me the grace never to fear the conflict, to do my duty no matter what the cost.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Thought on Love

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

How sweet is the way of love!

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Inspiration

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

He guides and inspires me every moment of the day. Just when I need it, a new light shines on my problems.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Going Up

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

It is your arms, Jesus, which are the elevator to carry me to heaven.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Faith

A quote from St Cyril of Jerusalem, whose feast day it is today (thanks to AmericanCatholic.org’s Saint of the Day):

“It is not only among us, who are marked with the name of Christ, that the dignity of faith is great; all the business of the world, even of those outside the Church, is accomplished by faith. By faith, marriage laws join in union persons who were strangers to one another. By faith, agriculture is sustained; for a man does not endure the toil involved unless he believes he will reap a harvest. By faith, seafaring men, entrusting themselves to a tiny wooden craft, exchange the solid element of the land for the unstable motion of the waves. Not only among us does this hold true but also, as I have said, among those outside the fold. For though they do not accept the Scriptures but advance certain doctrines of their own, yet even these they receive on faith” (Catechesis V).

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Silence

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Silence does good to the soul.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Love Is Everything

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Jesus does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, or even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

True Love

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

The meaning of love is to sacrifice yourself.
-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Little Things

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

When I feel nothing, when I am incapable of praying or practicing virtue, then is the moment to look for small occasions, nothings that give Jesus pleasure… a smile or a friendly word, when I would much prefer to say nothing at all.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Joy

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Joy isn’t found in the material objects surrounding us, but in the inner recesses of the soul. One can possess joy in a prison cell as well as in a palace.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Things In Perspective

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

To remain a child before God means to recognize our nothingness, to expect everything from God. It is not to become discouraged over our failings, for children fall often, but they are too little to hurt themselves very much.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

One’s Own

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

“I do not concern myself about what God might be asking of others. Whatever God asks of me always makes me happy.”

-St. Therese of Lisieux

Good King Wenceslaus…

…is the Saint of the Day, from AmericanCatholic.org.

On St Francis

St Bonaventure wrote:

“Francis sought occasion to love God in everything. He delighted in all the works of God’s hands and from the vision of joy on earth his mind soared aloft to the life-giving source and cause of all. In everything beautiful, he saw Him who is beauty itself, and he followed his Beloved everywhere by His likeness imprinted on creation; of all creation he made a ladder by which he might mount up and embrace Him who is all-desirable” (Legenda Major, IX, 1).

From the Saints of the Day for today, St Elzear and Blessed Delphina, from AmericanCatholic.org

Advice to Preachers…

…from St Francis:

“Moreover, I advise and admonish the friars that in their preaching, their words should be examined and chaste. They should aim only at the advantage and spiritual good of their listeners, telling them briefly about vice and virtue, punishment and glory, because our Lord Himself kept his words short on earth” (St. Francis, Rule of 1223, Ch. 9).

From the Saint of the Day for today, St Pacifico of San Severino, from AmericanCatholic.org