Finding Joy in the day, Day 120 (Year 4)

Getting a few things cleared up

'Every day make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, and when the duties of your state of life prevent you, visit Him in spirit.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 119 (Year 4)

Making it through the first 24 hours

'Do not be so given to the activity of Martha as to forget the silence of Mary. May the Virgin who so reconciled the one with the other be your sweet model and inspiration.'

Padre Pio

Finding Joy in the day, Day 118 (Year 4)

Getting a little settled

'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 117 (Year 4)

Getting some time to read

'Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.'

St. Isidore of Seville

Finding Joy in the day, Day 116 (Year 4)

A decent day

'Do we not admire Joseph, a young man of seventeen, for enduring his temptation to the end? And God glorified him. Do we not also see Job, how he suffered to the end, and lived in endurance? Temptations cannot destroy hope in God.'

St. Poemen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 115 (Year 5)

Visit with Fr. Celestine

'Let all thy care be to possess thy soul in peace and tranquility. Let no accident be to thee a cause of ill-humor.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

Finding Joy in the day, Day 114 (Year 4)

Another babysitting job

'What the eye is in the body, knowledge is in the mind.'

St. Clement of Alexandria

Finding Joy in the day, Day 113 (Year 4)

Talking to my friend on the phone

'Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified.'

Psalm 131:8

Finding Joy in the day, Day 112 (Year 4)

Getting support from my mom

'Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 111 (Year 4)

Getting a short babysitting job

'Enter upon this holy retreat, therefore, holding in your hands the book of the Crucifix. Shield yourselves against the onslaughts of hell by fleeing to the protection of Mary. Finally, strike down the pride of Lucifer with the powerful weapon of prayer. Live for God, my beloved, live in His presence. Unite yourselves solely and most intimately with Him. Then you will be holy and blessed. Amen.'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

Finding Joy in the day, Day 110 (Year 4)

Getting the morning out of the way

'To mortify one passion, no matter how small, is a greater help in the spiritual life than many abstinences, fasts, and disciplines.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 109 (Year 4) Father's Day 2017

For being blessed with the best dad God could have ever given me, who loves me unconditionally and is ALWAYS there for me!

'Ah! when shall we perfectly imitate our divine Redeemer, Who humbled Himself so much?'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 108 (Year 4)

Anticipating a sale

'Prayer comprises the complete fulfillment of the commandments; for there is nothing higher than love for God.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 107 (Year 4)

Seeing my friend after far too long

'Without a doubt, obedience is more meritorious than any other penance. And what greater penance can there be than keeping one's will continually submissive and obedient?'

St. Catherine of Bologna

Finding Joy in the day, Day 106 (Year 4)

Seeing mom and dad

'Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is actually necessary, because there is no better means of obtaining God's graces than through His most holy mother.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 105 (Year 4)

Hearing good news from Mom and Dad

'As long as you have bad habits do not reject hardship, so that through it you may be humbled and eject your pride.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

Finding Joy in the day, Day 104 (Year 4)

Quiet day

'Man by prayer merits to receive that which God had from all eternity determined to give him.'

St. Gregory

Finding Joy in the Day, Day 103 (Year 4)

Things going much better then anticipated this weekend (to everyone who prayed, THANK YOU)

'We ought to hate no one, for God never comes where there is no love of our neighbours.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 102 (Year 4)

Getting into the carwash without a line

'When our pious undertakings meet with little success, let us not be troubled; when God wills anything to be done for His glory He will not fail to urge on the work until it is accomplished.'

St. Paul of the Cross

(this is promising)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 101 (Year 4)

Finding a shirt I wanted to get last winter from target but was' quick enough at the thrift store
Reaching 100 days x4 years
All those who keep praying for and loving me

'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 100 (Year 4)

Seeing my friend before she leaves

'When the afflictions of this life overcome us, let us encourage ourselves to bear them patiently by the hope of heaven.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 99 (Year 4)

Seeing a movie

'O Divine Jesus, impress on my heart a disposition like that of a certain man who loved your cross so much that he used to say if after serving you for a hundred years his only recompense were the grace to suffer one hour for love of you, he would believe all his sacrifice too well rewarded.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 98 (Year 4)

Support from a friend

'I do not love suffering itself; I ask it of God because I desire its fruits: it gives glory to God, saves my brothers in exile, and frees souls from the fires of Purgatory.'

Padre Pio

Finding Joy in the day, Day 97 (Year 4)

Good conversation

'Behold how sinners treat Me. . . My daughter, wilt thou give Me thy heart and ease My suffering love which everyone despises?'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 96 (Year 4) Happy Birthday to the Church

Seeming to have straightened things out

'Glory be to thee, Lord Jesus!'

St. Concordius, during his tortures on the rack

Finding Joy in the day, Day 95 (Year 4)

Art fair with my friend

'Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?'

St. Gerard Majella

Finding Joy in the day, Day 94 (Year 4)

Making granola again

'He, very God, whose dwelling is in heaven, whose throne among the angels, He to whom heaven and earth, with all that they contain, do bow down and obey, has offered Himself to thee as thine abode, and furnished and prepared His presence for thee; for, as the Apostle teaches, "in Him we live, and move, and be" (Acts xvii. 28).'

St. Anselm of Canterbury

Finding Joy in the day, Day 93 (Year 4)

Talking to mamma on the phone

'You don't need to wallow in guilt. Wallow in the mercy of God. When you are guilty, say so to God through a confessor. Acknowledge your problems and sins. The moment you have stated them, God puts His Hand over you and you are a newborn babe.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

Finding Joy in the day, Day 92 (Year 4)

Getting back to my book group

'If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.'

St. Charles Borromeo