Love

"To live of love is not to set up our tent on Tabor. It is to climb Calvary with Jesus and see the Cross as a treasure."

St. Therese of Lisieux

Freedom

Gal. 5:1-6

"For freedom Christ set us free." Gospel freedom is the capacity to desire and depend on God, and thereby to possess the true meaning of our life. The Pharisees are unfree because they make an idol of rules. By giving alms, they will rediscover what their hearts were made for, and "everything will be clean" for them.
--from Magnificat, p. 160

Trust

You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress; my God in whom I trust."
--Psalm 91:1-2

Our Lady of the Rosary

"The Hail Mary, continuously repeated, should express the attitude of a soul who is striving to approach the Blessed Virgin, hastening toward her in order to be captivated by her and given insight into the divine mysteries. 'Ave Maria!' the lips say, and the heart murmurs: 'Teach me, O Mary, to know and love Jesus as you knew and loved Him.' Saying the Rosary in this way requires recollection."

"O, Mary, since you love me, make me resemble you. You have all power to change hearts: take my heart, then, and transform it. Make me a saint... O Mary, you who are the holiest of all creatures, make me holy. You lack neither love nor power; you can and you will obtain everything for me." St. Alphonsus

--from Divine Intimacy, pp.1156-7

Jesus, I trust in You

Today is the commemoration of the death of St. Faustina. It is a good day to pray a chaplet of Divine Mercy.

Wait

Habakkuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4

"For the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint; if it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late."

The Little Way

"Oh! ... I love him ...My God, I ... love...you!"
--St. Therese

"I do not desire either suffering or death, although both are appealing to me; it is love alone which really attracts me...
I can ask for nothing with any enthusiasm except the perfect accomplishment of the Divine Will in my soul, unhindered by any intrusion of created things. I can say, with the words of our father, St. John of the Cross, in his Spiritual Canticle, 'I drank in the inner cellar of my Beloved, and when I went forth into the meadow I forgot everything and lost the flock which I used to drive. My soul has employed all its resources in His service; now I guard no flock, nor do I have any other duties. Now my only occupation is love."
--St. Therese