Finding Joy in the day, Day 149 (Year 3)

Another day to sleep in a little

'Silence is not a virtue when charity calls for speech.'

St. Poemen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 148 (Year 3)

Sleeping in

Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. - Psalm 25:16 (NIV)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 147 (Year 3) Feast of St. Martha

Mass in the little chapel

'I am come with all My divine power, to heal the wounds which cause you pain.'

The Lord, to St. Mechtilde

and another quote just because I really like this one

'. . . those wounds which were scattered over the body of our Lord, were all united in the single heart of Mary.'

St. Bonaventure

Finding Joy in the day, Day 146 (Year 3)

Enjoying cooking in the kitchen

'He that resists the will of God can have neither rest nor peace. "Who hath resisted Him and hath had peace? " (Job ix. 4.)'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 145 (Year 3)

Waking up early enough

'Well, how goes it with you? Your heart would fain wing its flight to heaven, is it not so? But patience; you must wait till your divine Spouse give you permission.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 144 (Year 3) Feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim

Celebrating Feast Day with my namesake friend Hannah

'There is where I study my sermon - at the foot of the crucifix.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 143 (Year 3)

Smooth babysitting day

'Each man's knowledge is genuine to the extent that it is confirmed by gentleness, humility and love.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 142 (Year 3)

Errands alone

'Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of your enemies. For those who like listening to such things will themselves suffer what they wish for others.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 141 (Year 3)

Pink pedi

'And he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.'

Luke 5:16

'My sweet Jesus, I unite my soul to Thy soul, and my heart, my mind, my life and my intentions to Thine; and, thus united, I present myself to Thy Father. Receive me, O Eternal Father, through the merits of Thy beloved Son.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 140 (Year 3) St. Mary Magdalene

Errands done before appointment

'Hope is obligatory. I must, then, hope for my salvation.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 139 (Year 3)

2 pops

'A good conscience is found through prayer, and pure prayer through the conscience. Each by nature needs the other.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 138 (Year 3)

A few hours of air conditioning

'May the peace of the adorable Heart of Jesus Christ ever fill our hearts, so that nothing may be able to disturb our serenity!'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 137 (Year 3)

Free pop

'The cross is good at all times and in all places. It matters little of what wood it is made, provided that it is offered to us by the Sacred Heart of our Lord.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 136 (Year 3)

Made it through the morning

'I abyss myself in His magnificence and His wisdom but when I ponder His goodness, my heart can say nothing - I can only Adore.'

St. Teresa of the Andes

Finding Joy in the day, Day 135 (Year 3)

A quick time in the ER with work

'All men are made in God's image; but to be in His likeness is granted only to those who through great love have brought their own freedom into subjection to God. For only when we do not belong to ourselves do we become like Him who through love has reconciled us to Himself. No one achieves this unless he persuades his soul not to be distracted by the false glitter of this life.'

St. Diadochos of Photiki

Finding Joy in the day, Day 134 (Year 3) Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Trip to Walmart

'Abandon everything to My good pleasure and let Me accomplish My designs; do not thou interfere in anything, for I will take care of all.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 133 (Year 3)

A job this morning

'The Holy Eucharist very often invigorates and strengthens even the body. O infinite mercy of our sovereign Good! this marvellous effect proceeds from the great vigor which the bread of angels communicates to the soul, and which reacts on the body.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 132 (Year 3) St. Kateri

Special music after Mass

'I never ceased hoping against all hope. . .'

St. Therese of Lisieux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 131 (Year 3)

Card in the mail

'Leave your soul free to take her flight to the Sovereign Good as God shall guide her.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 130 (Year 3)

Talking to my sis

'Frequent confession is the cause of great good to the soul, because it purifies it, heals it, and confirms it in the service of God: we ought not therefore to omit confession on our fixed days for any business whatsoever; but go to confession first, and to business afterwards, and the first will help the last.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 129 (Year 3) St. Benedict

A little shorter day

'In the trials that God sends us we must bow our head in submission, because, if He intended to give us one stroke, and we raise our head in rebellion, He will give us ten of them; whereas, if He designed to give us ten strokes, and we bow our head in submission, He will scarcely inflict one.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 128 (Year 3)

Rain during the night

'They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 127 (Year 3)

Seeing my dear friend and tea from Twinings London

'O my Jesus, help me to love you; love me, and then crucify me as much as you please.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 126 (Year 3)

Getting around to run a few errands

'You know that virtue is not practiced without effort, but for one moment of suffering there follows an eternity of reward.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 125 (Year 3)

Better from my headache

'Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

Finding Joy in the day, Day 124 (Year 3)

Not having to be on hold on the phone today

'Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than his God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow,
Gift to this gift let each receiver be:
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.'

St. Robert Southwell

Finding Joy in the day, Day 123 (Year 3)

Thunder and lightning storms

'The forceful practice of self-control and love, patience and stillness, will destroy the passions hidden within us.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 122 (Year 3) July 4, 2016

Freedom through Christ

'Though God gave me the grace to discern the truth from error, even before the definition of the Holy See, still I have never had any feeling of complacency or vain joy because my judgment was formed in conformity with that of the Church fully recognizing that it was an effect of the pure mercy of God towards me, to Whom, therefore, I must render all the glory.'

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 121 (Year 3)

Reading the Sunday ads

'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 120 (Year 3)

Visit to the Cathedral

'You must be very careful to profit by the occasions of mortification and humiliation that come in your way, not avoiding or shunning them, for they are the principal means of uniting yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 119 (Year 3)

A new Saint Feast Day- St. Junipero Serra

'The Church teaches us that mercy belongs to God. Let us implore Him to bestow on us the spirit of mercy and compassion, so that we are filled with it and may never lose it. Only consider how much we ourselves are in need of mercy.'

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 118 (Year 3)

A nice mild day

'Use the senses and sense objects as a means to spiritual contemplation but, on the contrary, do not use what provokes the desire of the flesh as food for the senses.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan