Finding Joy in the day, Day 248 (Year 4)

Day off

'It is better to do the Divine Will on earth than to enjoy heaven. To suffer and not to die was the motto of St. Therese.'

St. Padre Pio

Finding Joy in the day, Day 247 (Year 4)

Going out with my friend

'God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: "Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?"'

St. John Chrysostom

Finding Joy in the day, Day 246 (Year 4)

Free watermelon

'Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 245 (Year 4) Feast of St. Jude 2017

Getting a longer massage and seeing super cute pictures of my Lbaby

'Why despair of your eternal salvation? Do you not know how good God is?'

St. Paul of the Cross

p.s. Happy Feast day Dad

Finding Joy in the day, Day 244 (Year 4)

Touched my sister called back since we didn't get much time the day before, I love you to the moon and beyond...

'Jesus Christ at His birth: I contemplate Him there with Mary and Joseph. What conditions, though! Lying in a manger where animals feed! Humiliation, privation, suffering.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 243 (Year 4)

Nice chatting with my sister

'Moreover it is all the more remarkable that the more we submit to God's will, the more He tries to meet our wishes. It would seem that as soon as we make it our sole aim to obey Him, He on His part does His best to try and please us. Not only does He answer our prayers but He even forestalls them by granting the very desires we have endeavored to stifle in our hearts in order to please Him, and granting them in a measure we had never imagined.'

St. Claude de la Colombiere 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 242 (Year 4)

Driving my car after a month

'Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 241 (Year 4)

Waking up to a wonderful message from my friend

'Without prayer a man will not persevere long in spirituality; we must have recourse to this most powerful means of salvation every day.'

St. Philip Neri 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 240 (Year 4)

Staying warm today

'What toil we must endure, what fatigue, while we are attempting to climb hills and the summits of mountains! What, that we may ascend to heaven! If you consider the promised reward, what you endure is less. Immortality is given to the one who perseveres; everlasting life is offered; the Lord promises His Kingdom.'

St. Cyprian of Carthage

'Though I find myself in so wretched a condition that I feel as if I no longer possess faith, hope, or charity, nor even that natural light which other men enjoy, so that I seem to be like an animal, even then, were I asked of what I was thinking, I could truthfully say that in the depth of my soul I have God alone present with me.'

St Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 239 (Year 4)

A mostly lazy day with some beautiful Fall clips captured

'So greatly did the virtue of humility please Him in Mary that He was constrained to give her the Word His Only-Begotten Son and she was the sweet mother who gave Him to us.'

St. Catherine of Siena

Finding Joy in the day, Day 238 (Year 4)

Sleeping in ahhhh

'Begin in the morning, before leaving your room, by meditating, for a quarter of an hour, on the Passion of our Redeemer, and you will see that, all will go well with you, and that you will live far removed from sin.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 237 (Year 4)

Seeing red leaf trees lining the street

'If you would live entirely for Him, and reach the perfection which He desires of you, you must sacrifice yourself unreservedly with all that depends on you. You must no longer will anything but by the will of this loving Heart, and no longer love anything but by Its affections. You must act only by Its light; never undertake anything without first asking for Its counsel and help; give It all the glory thereof; return It thanks, both for failure and success in your undertakings, and without worrying be equally satisfied with all; for, provided that this divine Heart is pleased, loved and glorified, nothing else matters.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 236 (Year 4)

Decent temperatures and sun  

379 During one of the adorations, Jesus promised me that: With souls that have recourse to My mercy and with those that glorify and proclaim My great mercy to others, I will deal according to My infinite mercy at the hour of their death.

Divine Mercy Diary

Finding Joy in the day, Day 235 (Year 4)

A good laugh with my siblings
Driving into the sunset on the way home

'Jesus was obedient even to the death of the Cross, therefore I wish to obey even to my last sigh, so as to pay homage to the obedience of Jesus in the Sacred Host; and the whiteness of the Host teaches me that I must be a pure victim, in order to be sacrificed to Him.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 234 (Year 4)

A nice ride through the park

'He will have a special love and care for you, if you keep yourself interiorly humble, and strive to be gentle and steadfast in suffering abjection in humiliations, which are often the harder to bear the more trifling they are.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 233 (Year 4) Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Generous and caring friends and family

'If you wish to preserve or acquire the gift of prayer, keep yourself recollected by making, even in the midst of your occupations, frequent aspirations to God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'Choose the divine Heart for your sacred oratory, wherein to offer to God your petitions and prayers that may be pleasing to Him.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 232 (Year 4) Susanna and Brad's Wedding Day

Seeing a beautiful Sacrament of Love- I love you Mr. and Mrs. Band SP

'There is faith "that comes by hearing" (Rom. 10:17) and there is faith that "is the substance of things hoped for" (Heb. 11:1).'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 231 (Year 4)

Seeing my wonderful family

'I exhort you to hide your treasure as well as you can. You understand of what treasure I speak; it is your precious sufferings.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 230 (Year 4)

A great visit with mani and pedi and coffee and the best company

'Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.'

St. Jerome

Finding Joy in the day, Day 229 (Year 4)

An email from my momma

'Union, intimate union with Jesus, heart to heart with Jesus like Saint John, in purity and in love.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 228 (Year 4)

Trying to get everything ready

'I must die to myself continually and accept trials without complaining. I work, I suffer and I love with no other witness than His Heart. Anyone who is not prepared to suffer all for the Beloved and to do His will in all things is not worthy of the sweet name of Friend, for here below, Love without suffering does not exist.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

'Be of good courage, for neither grace nor the help of the Sacred Heart will be wanting to you. Our Lord wishes to save you; He will not let you perish as long as you do not willfully do what you know displeases Him.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 227 (Year 4)

Having a little time to connect

'We must pray literally without ceasing -- without ceasing; in every occurrence and employment of our lives.'

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Finding Joy in the day, Day 226 (Year 4)

A rainbow on my drive home

'He who tries to conquer his own will by means of obedience and prayer is following a wise ascetic method. His renunciation of external things indicates his inward struggle.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 225 (Year 4)

Seeing my friend, coffee, walk, chat, coffee

'More determination is required to subdue the interior man than to mortify the body; and to break one's will than to break one's bones.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 224 (Year 4)

Sleeping in, hip hip hooray

'In order that a correction may be administered with fruit, authority must be in the one giving it, and love in the one receiving it.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 223 (Year 4)

4 months and finally reunited with HD, love that girl

'Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 222 (Year 4) Feast of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska Oct 5, '17

Getting through lots of appointments and bible study tonight

“Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul."
St. Faustina 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 221 (Year 4)

Still being able to babysit even though I was running late and getting understanding

'I shall conclude this subject with what St. Basil said to his monks: If, my children, we desire to raise the soul towards heaven, let us direct the eyes towards the earth. From the moment we awake in the morning, let us pray continually in the words of holy David: Turn away my eyes, that they may not behold vanity.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 220 (Year 4)

Seeing the sun today

'He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.'

John 1:10-13

We are born...by the will of GOD!-(love that part of the vs)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 219 (Year 4) Feast of the Guardian Angels Oct, 2 '17

Gratefully borrowing a car

'Christ is the Savior of the whole world, and has conferred on men the gift of repentance so that they may be saved.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 218 (Year 4) Feast of St Therese of the Child Jesus Oct, 1 '17

Babysitting again

"The world is thy ship, not thy home" St. Therese of Lisieux