Finding Joy in the day, Day 184 (Year 4)

Getting up and ready on time

'By the test of suffering the chaff in the Church of God is distinguished from the wheat: he that humbles himself under tribulations, and is resigned to the will of God, is wheat for paradise; he that grows haughty and is enraged, and so forsakes God, is chaff for hell.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 183 (Year 4)

Getting to sleep in

'He has so fashioned and destined me for His all-lovable Heart, that He alone is all my joy, my consolation, my treasure and my happiness; and apart from Him all else is as nothing to me.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 182 (Year 4)

Having time to get an

'It is God's custom to interweave human life with a trouble and a consolation, at least, of an interior sort, alternately.'
St. Philip Neri estimate

Finding Joy in the day, Day 181 (Year 4)

Seeing two friends

'Let him who seeks true humility, employ two means: mental prayer, meditating on the greatness of God, and his own nothingness; vocal prayer, asking it of God, through the merits of Jesus and Mary.'

St. Benedict Joseph Labre

Finding Joy in the day, Day 180 (Year 4)

Taking a nice nap

'You ought to be like a person who lets go and like one who gathers. You should let go of riches and gather virtues, let go of what will pass and gather eternal things, let go of visible things and gather invisible. In return for the pleasure of the body, I will give you the exultation of your soul; in return for the merriment of the world, I will give you the merriment of Heaven; in return for worldly honor, the honor of the angels; in return for the presence of family, the presence of God; in return for the possession of goods, I will give you myself, the giver and Creator of all things.'

The Lord, to St. Bridget of Sweden

Finding Joy in the day, Day 179 (Year 4)

Talking to my sister

'Each small task of everyday life is part of the harmony of the universe.'

St. Therese of Lisieux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 178 (Year 4)

Getting a last minute babysitting job

'An irresistible incentive to obedience is the loving example of the Man-God, Jesus Christ, our Lord; who, whilst dwelling under the same roof with His parents, was subject to them; and in this Holy Family, the Virgin Mary, Queen of all, was obedient to Joseph.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 177 (Year 4)

Making a couple phone calls

'Blessed the one who stands in the assembly and prays like an Angel from heaven, keeping his thoughts pure day by day, and has given no entrance to the Evil One to make his soul a prisoner, far from God his Saviour.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

Finding Joy in the day, Day 176 (Year 4)

New water bottle

'Even among the present hardships of our exile, and the wearisomeness of our pilgrimage, obedience gives us a foretaste of our heavenly country.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 175 (Year 4)

Seeing the Eclipse- Aug 21, 2017 at 13:07

'I have chosen thee as an abyss of unworthiness and ignorance for the accomplishment of this great design, so that everything may be done by Me.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 174 (Year 4)

Spending the weekend with mom and dad

'Too late have I known Thee, too late have I loved Thee, O beauty so ancient and so new! Too late have I loved thee!'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 173 (Year 4)

Celebrating the day with one of my dearest friends

'Our Lord and God is Jesus Christ, and the intellect that follows Him will not remain in darkness (cf. John 12:46).'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

'My divine Master has taught me to look upon myself only as the sport of the good pleasure of His adorable Heart, my sole treasure, and in this it is that I must glory.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 172 (Year 4)

Mom and Dad arriving safe

'God endures, to be bound in swaddling-clothes, because he had come to pay the debts of the whole world.'

St. Zeno

Finding Joy in the day, Day 171 (Year 4)

Getting excited to see mom and dad

'Outside of God nothing is durable. We exchange life for death, health for sickness, honor for shame, riches for poverty. All things change and pass away.'

St. Catherine of Siena

'The true peace of God, penetrating the depth of the soul, brings with it every help and grace necessary to secure its salvation and reach eternal life.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 170 (Year 4)

Talking to my sister and L again

'After fulfilling a commandment expect to be tempted: for love of Christ is tested by adversity.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 169 (Year 4)

Getting something off my chest

'Poverty is the glorious standard, the impregnable fortress of the religious life.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 168 (Year 4) Feast of the Assumption Aug 15, 2017

Talking to my sister to start my day 💕

"A single act of love makes the soul return to life."
- Maximilian Kolbe

Finding Joy in the day, Day 167 (Year 4)

Finally able to be back home

'Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 166 (Year 4)

Kombucha and snack date with my fellow friend

'Whenever we think of Christ we should recall the love that led him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of his love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love him. For is at some time the Lord should grant us the grace of impressing his love on our hearts, all will become easy for us and we shall accomplish great things quickly and without effort.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 165 (Year 4)

A babysitting job

'The most important thing upon which to concentrate in order to mortify it and eradicate it entirely is our predominant passion, that is, that affection, desire, inclination, vice or bad habit which drags us down and most frequently causes us to fall into sin. Once this king of our faults has been conquered, the battle will be won.'

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

Finding Joy in the day, Day 164 (Year 4) August 11th Feast of St. Philomena

The girls excited to see me

'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

St. Philomena, pray for us

Finding Joy in the day, Day 163 (Year 4)

Waking up and able to accomplish what was needed

'We can never arrive at the contemplative life, if we do not first exercise ourselves laboriously in the active life.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 162 (Year 4)

Caribou perk deal

'Take for your motto: Love has conquered me, it alone shall possess my heart.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 161 (Year 4)

Seeing my friends and having a lively chat

'We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.'
St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 160 (Year 4)

Finally settling in for the night

'Oh Saviour, I am ready to accompany you to that mountain and to suffer and die there with you!'

St. Lydwine of Schiedam

(Lord make me willing to suffer with you and use that suffering for prayer, please, Jesus, Mercy)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 159 (Year 4)

Getting eyebrows waxed

'Let us trust in him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For he is all-powerful, and he tells us: "My yoke is easy, and my burden light."'

St. Boniface

Finding Joy in the day, Day 158 (Year 4) Feast of the Transfiguration

Going out with my fellow "co-worker"

'Blessed the one who keeps his body for holiness for the Saviour and has not shamed his soul by unnatural deeds, but remained well-pleasing to the Lord.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

Finding Joy in the day, Day 157 (Year 4)

Thrift browsing

'Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 156 (Year 4)

Purple toes

'The upright intention is the soul of our actions. It gives them life and makes them good.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 155 (Year 4)

Looking forward to an outing tomorrow

'O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 154 (Year 4)

Relaxing in a hammock

'When, on the contrary, you do not feel this interior peace, or this recollection, the soul can no longer meditate. Make no effort to do so; you ought, however, always to keep up a loving attention to God in the superior part of the soul. In this case, remain before God, detached from all consolation, like a statue in its niche.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 153 (Year 4)

Having a little time to read

'Though Jesus [in His Sacred Humanity] is solitary in the Blessed Sacrament, He is always communing with God. Therefore, in order to be conformed to Him, I will make a solitude in my heart, so that everywhere I may converse alone with Jesus.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque