Finding Joy in the day, Day 146 (Year 2)

Talking to parents
Looking for things I enjoy doing

'The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.'

Deuteronomy 32:4

Finding Joy in the day, Day 145 (Year 2)

Someone who listens
Prayers when I struggle

'St. Joseph was chosen among all men, to be the protector and guardian of the Virgin Mother of God; the defender and foster-father of the Infant-God, and the only co-operator upon earth, the one confidant of the secret of God in the work of the redemption of mankind.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 144 (Year 2)

Visit with my friend and my niece
Surprise from my sister

'Himself guides the bark of Peter. For this reason it can not perish, although He sometimes seems to sleep.'

St. Antoninus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 143 (Year 2)

Sunshine in the window

'So greatly did the virtue of humility please Him in Mary that He was constrained to give her the Word His Only-Begotten Son and she was the sweet mother who gave Him to us.'

St. Catherine of Siena

Finding Joy in the day, Day 142 (Year 2)

Good Spirituality group
Compassionate people

'Your most important business is the care of your soul. This is why, before leaving your room in the morning, you should spend at least a quarter of an hour in meditating on the life, the Passion, and the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 141 (Year 2) Feast of St. Anne

Sunday naps

Access to the newspaper and coupons

 

"For I am With You,

to save you and deliver you

  says the Lord.

I Will deliver you out of the hand

  of the wicked,

and REDEEEM you from the

 grasp of the ruthless."  Jer.  l5:20-2l

 

'The Lord, though he was God, became man. He suffered for the sake of whose who suffer, he was bound for those in bonds, condemned for the guilty, buried for those who lie in the grave; but he rose from the dead, and cried aloud: "Who will contend with me? Let him confront me." I have freed the condemned, brought the dead back to life, raised men from their graves. Who has anything to say against me? I, he said, am the Christ; I have destroyed death, triumphed over the enemy, trampled hell underfoot, bound the strong one, and taken men up to the heights of heaven: I am the Christ.'

St. Melito of Sardis

 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 140 (Year 2) Feast of St. James

Visiting family
Clothes I can wear

'Understand the words of Holy Scripture by putting them into practice, and do not fill yourself with conceit by elaborating on theoretical ideas.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 139 (Year 2)

Picture of brothers and sisters
Anticipating my brothers families return

'This feast [of the Sacred Heart] is a day of salvation and of eternal blessing for all who honor It with a humble and sincere heart. Let us, then, love this divine Heart and in all things try to conform ourselves to It.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 137 (Year 2)

Safe drive

'Give me ten truly detached men, and I will convert the world with them.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 138 (Year 2) St. Bridget of Sweden

Getting one thing done
A chance

'When you find your intellect occupied pleasurably with material things and becoming fondly attached to its conceptual images of them, you may be sure that you love these things more than God. "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matt. 6:21)'

St. Maximos the Confessor

Finding Joy in the day, Day 136 (Year 2)

Morning coffee with mom and Aunt
Time with my friend and niece

'O Priest! You are not yourself because you are God. You are not of yourself because you are the servant and minister of Christ. You are not you own because you are the spouse of the Church. You are not yourself because you are the mediator between God and man. You are not from yourself because you are nothing. What then are you? Nothing and everything. O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: "He saved others, himself he cannot save!"'
St. Norbert

Finding Joy in the day, Day 135 (Year 2)

2 Coffee dates
Enjoying my visits

'Open thine ears to the voices of nature, and thou shalt hear them in concert inviting thee to the love of God.'

Ven. Louis de Granada

Finding Joy in the day, Day 134 (Year 2)

Safe Travels
Pretty drive

'In union with the perfect confidence and hope that the Holy and Blessed Virgin placed in Thee, do I hope O Lord.'

Pope St. Pius V

Finding Joy in the day, Day 133 (Year 2)

A book from my dad
A trip to the Monastery with daddio

'The hour is finished - we may say the same of the year; but the time to do good is not finished yet.'
St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 132 (Year 2)

Help from strangers
Love from family

'Perfection of life consists in drawing close to God. Heaven is the possession of God. In heaven God is contemplated, adored, loved. But to attain heaven it's necessary to be detached from what is earthly. What is the life of a Carmelite if not one of contemplating, adoring and loving God incessantly? And she, by being desirous for that heaven, distances herself from the world and tries to detach herself as much as possible from everything earthly.'
St. Teresa of the Andes

Finding Joy in the day, Day 131 (Year 2)

Help from mom and dad

Friends who listen to my woes

'The poor should live by alms.'

St. Benedict Joseph Labre

Finding Joy in the day, Day 129 (Year 2) Feast of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (one of my patron saints)

Friends and a bonfire
Getting an errand done before going to work

“I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love. The state of helpless poverty that may befall me if I do not marry does not frighten me. All I need is a little food and a few pieces of clothing. With the work of my hands I shall always earn what is necessary and what is left over I’ll give to my relatives and to the poor. If I should become sick and unable to work, then I shall be like the Lord on the cross. He will have mercy on me and help me, I am sure.” Saint Kateri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 130 (Year 2)

Blessings from my nanny families
French Pedicure

'By denying our self-love and our inclinations in little things, we gradually acquire mortification and victory over ourselves.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 128 (Year 2)

A lovely bridal shower
GPS Apps on my phone

'Despise not prophecies.
But prove all things; hold fast that which is good.'
1 Thessalonians 5:20-21

Finding Joy in the day, Day 127 (Year 2)

Yay for thunderstorms
Finding what I was looking for on sale

'I acknowledge, Lord, that for the just punishment of my sins I fell into the horrible temptation which so nearly caused my destruction. Thou it is Who, by Thine infinite mercy, hast delivered me from it. I promise to serve Thee for the remainder of my days with all the fidelity I am capable of, and I beg Thee the grace to do so. Cause the light of Thy countenance to shine upon Thy servant; grant me that interior peace after which I have so long sighed; show me the way in which Thou wishest me to walk and go to Thee, for it is just that the work of Thy hands should praise Thee, obey Thee, and be entirely submissive to Thy commands.'
St. John of God

Finding Joy in the day, Day 126 (Year 2)

Good vs reflecting what I need to hear
Prayers from others

'I work here on borrowed money, a prisoner for the sake of Jesus Christ. And often my debts are so pressing that I dare not go out of the house for fear of being seized by my creditors. Whenever I see so many poor brothers and neighbors of mine suffering beyond their strength and overwhelmed with so many physical or mental ills which I cannot alleviate, then I become exceedingly sorrowful; but I trust in Christ, who knows my heart. And so I say, "Woe to the man who trusts in men rather than in Christ.'
St. John of God

Finding Joy in the day, Day 125 (Year 2)

Making art with my friend
Quality time with a good friend (BK, your awesome)

'Just as we drive out one nail by another, let us oppose effort to effort, habit to habit.'
St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 124 (Year 2)

Getting to all my appointments
Squeezing in another appointment

'If some shameful thought is sown in your heart as you are sitting in your cell, watch out. Resist the evil, so that it does not gain control over you. Make every effort to call God to mind, for He is looking at you, and whatever you are thinking in your heart is plainly visible to Him. Say to your soul: "If you are afraid of sinners like yourself seeing your sins, how much more should you be afraid of God who notes everything?" As a result of this warning the fear of God will be revealed in your soul, and if you cleave to Him you will not be shaken by the passions; for it is written: "They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion; he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be shaken" (Ps. 125:1. LXX). Whatever you are doing, remember that God sees all your thoughts, and then you will never sin. To Him be glory through all the ages. Amen.'
St. Isaiah the Solitary

Finding Joy in the day, Day 123 (Year 2)

Pleasant afternoon
Looking forward to visitors

'If our natural feelings, being hurt, cause us to utter some words, or to act in opposition with the principles we profess, we must chastise them severely until they have obeyed us.'
St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 122 (Year 2)

Seeing a beautiful friend prepping for her wedding
Special moments of being vulnerable

'The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer and spiritual reading.'
St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 121 (Year 2) Feast of St. Maria Goretti

Someone to help with the legwork
A sub for work

“Behold, now she follows the Lamb who was crucified for us,
powerful in virginity, modesty her offering,
a sacrifice on the altar of chastity.”

(Mass Entrance Antiphon, Memorial of St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 120 (Year 2)

Good insight
Drove right into the fireworks grand finale, like driving into the twlight zone!
Free Watermelon

'When the intellect devotes itself continually to divine realities, the soul's passible aspect becomes a godlike weapon.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 119 (Year 2) Birthday and Feast day of Blessed Pier Giorgio

Catching up with my a dearest friend, I love you MK
Affirming words

“The times we are going through [he said to the young] are difficult because cruel persecution of the Church is raging.  But you bold and good young people should not be afraid of this small thing; remember that the Church is a divine institution and cannot come to an end.  She will last till the end of the world. Not even the gates of hell can prevail against her.”
-Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati

Finding Joy in the day, Day 118 (Year 2)

A day off from running around
Replacing my earings

'In leaving God for God, there is a great spiritual gain and nothing to lose.'
St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 117 (Year 2)

An early end to all my to dos today
Lovely weather

'If it is your task to give spiritual instruction and you are disobeyed, grieve inwardly but do not be outwardly upset. For if you grieve, you will not share the guilt of the person who disobeys you; but if you are upset you will be tested by the same temptations as he is.'
St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 116 (Year 2)

Making it to all my appointments
www.masstimes.org

'What is the number of those who love Thee, O God? How few they are! The Elect are much fewer than the damned! Alas! The greater portion of mankind lives in sin unto the devil, and not unto Jesus Christ. O Saviour of the world, I thank Thee for having called and permitted us to live in the true faith which the Holy Roman Catholic Church teaches. . . But alas, O my Jesus! How small is the number of those who live in this holy faith! Oh, God! The greater number of men he buried in the darkness of infidelity and heresy. Thou hast humbled Thyself to death, to the death of the cross, for the salvation of men, and these ungrateful men are unwilling even to know Thee. Ah, I pray Thee, O omnipotent God, O sovereign and infinite Good, make all men know and love Thee!'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori