Finding Joy in the day, Day 58 (Year 3)

Magnificat magazine

'If a man disregards the commandment about prayer, he then commits worse acts of disobedience, each one handing him over to the next like a prisoner.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 57 (Year 3) St. Catherine of Siena

Lots of errands done

'It is not enough to see that God wishes the good we aim at, but that He wishes it through our instrumentality, in our manner and in our time; and we come to discern all this by true obedience.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 56 (Year 3) St. Peter Chanel

Getting a few errands done despite the cold

'They [religious] live more purely, they fall more rarely, they rise more speedily, they are aided more powerfully, they live more peacefully, they die more securely, and they are rewarded more abundantly.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 55 (Year 3)

Family support

'Alas that I have not the strength to go and continue to preach my Jesus crucified, Who died on the cross for us sinners! Would that I might thus put an end to the commission of so many crimes!'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 54 (Year 3)

Safe traveling

A strange phenomenon occurs as the soul gazes at Jesus. 

Its own reflection becomes brighter. 

Its faults fade away and one day that 'soul is turned -

transformed into the image it reflected' (II Cor 3:18)

Mother Angelica

Finding Joy in the day, Day 53 (Year 3) Feast of St. Mark

Rainbow on my way home

'In raising human nature to heaven by His ascension, Christ has given us the hope of arriving thither ourselves.'

St. Thomas Aquinas

Finding Joy in the day, Day 52 (Year 3)

Fun jokes

'If "love prevents us from harming our neighbor" (Rom. 13:10), he who is jealous of his brother or irritated by his reputation, and damages his good name with cheap jibes or in any way spitefully plots against him, is surely alienating himself from love and is guilty in the face of eternal judgment.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

Finding Joy in the day, Day 51 (Year 3)

All the babies

'To be a faithful lover of Jesus Christ her spouse, and to preserve unsullied the lily of her purity, a virgin must adopt the necessary means. The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 50 (Year 3)

Sunny Friday and seeing my sweet nephew

'Let each one ask of God grace for love of Jesus, notwithstanding that thou beest a sinner.'

St. Bernardine of Siena

Finding Joy in the day, Day 49 (Year 3)

Finding a beautiful picture of a great saint at church

'We make no progress because we dwell in that exterior learning which puffs up the mind; but these illiterate Egyptians have a true sense of their own weakness, blindness, and insufficiency; and by that very thing they are qualified to labor successfully in the pursuit of virtue.'

St. Arsenius

Finding Joy in the day, Day 48 (Year 3)

Good stations reflection

'We must not be behind time in doing good; for death will not be behind his time.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 47 (Year 3)

Getting my list of things I have to attend partially done

'It seems that God is calling you to great perfection. And I perceive it by this, that He takes away from you every tie that might hinder it in you.'

St. Catherine of Siena

Finding Joy in the day, Day 46 (Year 3)

The last day of tax season, I am thankful for this for your sake MB

'He who desires ecstasies and visions does not know what he is desiring.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 45 (Year 3)

Sisters prayers and a good babysitting night

'You know what you have to do. Correspond faithfully, joyfully and willingly to the lights He gives you.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 44 (Year 3)

80 degrees

'A living faith consists of thinking little of self, and showing consideration for others.'

St. Poemen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 43 (Year 3)

A good adjustment

'Before choosing, let us examine well whether the attachment we feel for an object springs solely from the love of God.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 42 (Year 3)

A nice dinner occasion

'How patiently Christ, the King and Lord of heaven and earth, bore with the apostles, enduring at their hands many incivilities and misbeliefs, they being but poor and rough fishermen! How much more ought we to bear with our neighbour, if he treats us with incivility.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 41 (Year 3)

Good weather

'The proper activity of the intellect is to be attentive at every moment to the words of God.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 40 (Year 3)

Weather getting warmer

'When you hear something to your benefit, do not condemn the speaker; for if you do you will nullify his helpful admonition.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 39 (Year 3)

Having nice things

'We do not know God from His essence. We know Him rather from the grandeur of His creation and from His providential care for all creatures. For through these, as though they were mirrors, we may attain insight into His infinite goodness, wisdom and power.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

Finding Joy in the day, Day 38 (Year 3)

Blooming daffodils

'Be not judge in your own case, but distrust yourself, and adore the Father of lights in spirit and in truth. It is written: Happy the man who always fears!'
St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 37 (Year 3)

Not too windy

'No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him; and I will raise him up in the last day.'
John 6:44

Finding Joy in the day, Day 36 (Year 3)

A new tv

'Escape from temptation through patience and prayer. If you oppose temptation without these, it only attacks you more strongly.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 35 (Year 3)

Purple pedicure

'If Nabuzardan, the head-cook, had not come, the temple of the Lord would not have been burned: (2 Kings 24:8) that is to say: if slackness and greed did not come into the soul, the spirit would not be overcome in combat with the enemy.'
St. Poemen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 34 (Year 3)

A nice nap

'Frequent Confession, frequent Communion, daily Mass: these are the pillars which should sustain the whole edifice of education.'

St. John Bosco

Finding Joy in the day, Day 33 (Year 3)

Getting some groceries

'Dearest daughter in Christ sweet Jesus: I Catherine, thy poor unworthy mother, want thee to attain that perfection for which God has chosen thee.'
St. Catherine of Siena

'I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them.'
St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 32 (Year 3)

A new babysitting job

'What? The cross make us lose our inward peace? Surely it is the cross that bestows it on our hearts. All our miseries come from our not loving it.'
St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

Finding Joy in the day, Day 31 (Year 3) Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord Jesus 2016

Quote from my mom
here it is:

I have a quote for you too:  "All grace flows from mercy...even if a person's sins were as dark as night, God's mercy is stronger than our misery.  One think alone is necessary: that the sinner set ajar the door of his heart, be it ever so little, to let in a ray of God's merciful grace, and then God will do the rest.   (Diary 1507)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 30 (Year 3) Divine Mercy Sunday 2016

A day to celebrate God's Mercy

(965) Souls perish in spite of My bitter Passion. I am giving them the last hope of salvation; that is, the Feast of My Mercy. If they will not adore My mercy, they will perish for all eternity. Secretary of My mercy, write, tell souls about this great mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My justice, is near.
"Yes, the first Sunday after Easter is the Feast of Mercy, but there must also be acts of mercy ... I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it" (742)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 29 (Year 3)

Friend date to Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel

'Man acts so far as he can in accordance with his own wishes; but God decides the outcome in accordance with justice.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 28 (Year 3)

Bright Sunny morning

"Love makes the heart leap and dance.
Love makes it exult and be festive.
Love makes it sing and be silent as it pleases.
Love grants it rest and enables it to act.
Love possesses it and gives it everything.
Love takes it over completely and dwells in it.
And Holy Communion is the mansion of love."

St. Veronica Giuliani