Finding Joy in the day, Day 302 (Year 3)

Seeing little L smile

'As for me, I am cheerful, tranquil and content, only because I am doing the will of God. I proclaim that I want to live and die with total abandonment to him. Is it not a great thing for a soul to know with certainty that one is fulfilling the divine will?'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

Finding Joy in the day, Day 301 (Year 3)

Past the 300 mark and in year 3 of this blog
(grateful for my sister who actually reads and comments everyday too!!!)

'In the choice of a state of life, if we wish to secure our eternal salvation, we must embrace that state to which God calls us, in which only God prepares for us the efficacious means necessary to salvation.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 300 (Year 3)

Out with mom and niece

'How I wish we would all walk in faith! Yes, this is the true way.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 299 (Year 3)

Awesome new EO rollon

'Should you feel yourself overwhelmed by fear, cast yourself into the abyss of the unshaken confidence of the Sacred Heart, and there your fear will give place to love. If you find yourself frail and weak, lapsing into faults at every moment, go to the Sacred Heart and draw from It the strength which will invigorate and revive you.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 298 (Year 3)

Win with the blanket gift

'Come, Lord, work upon us, set us on fire and clasp us close, be fragrant to us, draw us to your loveliness, let us love, let us run to you.'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 297 (Year 3)

More family time

'Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be.'

St. John Berchmans

Finding Joy in the day, Day 296 (Year 3) Christmas Day 2016

Christmas with family

'If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.'

St. Thomas More

Finding Joy in the day, Day 295 (Year 3) Christmas Eve 2016

Finished babysitting for the day
and safe drive to WI after

O Lord, Word of God, You, whose glory is complete, came to us in perfect humility as a child in the womb. Your love for us and humility is unsurpassed and brings us to our knees in prayer and worship.

'The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.'


St. Isidore of Seville

Finding Joy in the day, Day 294 (Year 3)

Getting back to the chiropractor

'In order to bear our afflictions with patience, it is very useful to read the lives and legends of the saints who endured great torments for Jesus Christ.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

O Emmanuel, our King and Giver of Law:

come to save us, Lord our God!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 293 (Year 3)

Finishing up on crown

'There are some who sin through frailty, or through the force of some violent passion. They desire to break these chains of death; if their prayer is constant they will be heard.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

O King of all nations and keystone of the Church:
come and save man, whom you formed from the dust!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 292 (Year 3)

Warmer day and sun

O Radiant Dawn,
splendor of eternal light, sun of justice:come and shine on those who dwell in darkness and in theshadow of death.

'One ought ardently to desire that charm of language so necessary in treating with men.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 291 (Year 3)

Getting a long morning done

O Key of David,
opening the gates of God’s eternal Kingdom:
come and free the prisoners of darkness!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 290 (Year 3)

Beautiful manger scene

'Fearful afflictions await the hard of heart, for without great sufferings they cannot become pliable and responsive.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 289 (Year 3)

Having a nice time visiting with others

'The glory of one who knows how to suffer is so great that Heaven, angels and men, and even God Himself, gaze on him with joy as a most glorious sight. And if the saints in Heaven desired anything, it would be to return to earth so as to bear some crosses.'

St. Louis Marie de Montfort

Finding Joy in the day, Day 288 (Year 3)

Safe travels to the party

'In our ascetic warfare we can neither rid ourselves of evil thoughts apart from their causes, nor of their causes without ridding ourselves of the thoughts. For if we reject the one without the other, before long the other will involve us in them both at once.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 287 (Year 3)

Getting a few things cleared up

'When fathers have given their sons a good education, and put everything clearly and distinctly in train for them, the sons who succeed them, and continue to follow the road marked out for them, will have the advantage of seeing their family persevere in holy ways, and in the fear of God.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 286 (Year 3)

First steps to dental crown done

'Because an interval of time elapses between sowing and reaping, we begin to think there will be no requital.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 285 (Year 3)- Happy Birthday to my Beautiful and Amazing sister

Warm blankets on my bed

'In order to be perfect, we must not only obey and honour our superiors; we must honour our equals and inferiors also.'

St. Philip Neri

'Since, in His mercy, He has consecrated me to His love and to His glory, I care not in what manner He treats me. Provided He is satisfied, I am content. Whether He raises me up or casts me down, consoles or afflicts me, it is all the same to me, as long as His good pleasure is fulfilled.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 284 (Year 3)

Pretty white snow

'You will not find the rigors of the ascetic life hard to bear if you do all things with measure and by rule.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 283 (Year 3)

Safe travels home

'Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be.'

St. John Berchmans

Finding Joy in the day, Day 282 (Year 3)

Kisses from Charlie

'Do everything through love and for love, making good use of the present moment, and do not be anxious about the future.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 281 (Year 3)

Spending time with my momma

'Gratitude for graces received is a most efficacious means of obtaining new ones.'

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 280 (Year 3)

Seeing a dear friend

'By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.'

Padre Pio

Finding Joy in the day, Day 279 (Year 3) Feast of the Immaculate Conception Dec 8, 2016

No injuries in accident

'He is truly humble of heart who knows 'himself thoroughly and who knows God. May the Lord grant this grace to all men!'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 278 (Year 3)

Figuring out how to get my dental work done

'Some are unable to fast or give alms; there are none who can not pray.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 277 (Year 3)

Clean teeth

'A soul defiled by the passions becomes obdurate: it has to undergo knife and cautery before it recovers its faith.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 276 (Year 3)

Good talks

'May the holy cross of Christ remain ever planted in our heart! May our mind be grafted on this tree of life, and may it produce worthy fruits of penance, through the merits of the death of the true Author of life!'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 275 (Year 3)

Grand Meander and Kowalski's Market

'I have chosen thy soul to be a paradise of rest to Me on earth, and thy heart shall be a throne of delight for My divine love.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 274 (Year 3)

Seeing my cousins

'Humility and self-contempt are safe barriers against illusions.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 273 (Year 3)

Getting some stuff ready for the weekend

'In the Heart of Jesus be constantly recollected; it is not necessary that you should feel and taste the divine presence, but it is all-important that you keep yourself in that presence by pure faith, devoid of all self-satisfaction.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 272 (Year 3)

New Christmas music artist 

'Blessed the one who has become like the Seraphim and the Cherubim and never wearied in his spiritual ministry, unceasingly giving glory to the Lord.'

St. Ephrem of Syria