Finding Joy in the day, Day 306 (Year 4)

Being in a safe place, having people love and support me via distance (praise God for technology!)

 Do not worry over things that generate preoccupation and anxiety.  One thing only is necessary: to lift up your spirit and love God.
St. Padre Pio

Finding Joy in the day, Day 305 (Year 4)

Priest vist and confession

'Now in the Catholic Church itself we take the greatest care to hold that which has been believed everywhere, always and by all.'

St. Vincent of Lerins

Finding Joy in the day, Day 304 (Year 4)

God bringing me this far, working things out where I didn't see possibility

'When we give ourselves up entirely to His guidance and allow Him to do as He pleases with us, He enables us to make great progress in a short time, almost without our knowing it, except for the struggles in which His grace continually engages our immortified nature.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 303 (Year 4)

Pretty sunset and rainbow clouds on my drive home

'I will make thee understand that I am a wise and learned director, Who will safely lead those souls who, forgetful of themselves, abandon themselves to Me.'

The Lord to, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 302 (Year 4)

My parents graciousness and love, Getting to spend over a week with my family

'We must have confidence in God, who is what He always has been, and we must not be disheartened because things turn out contrary to us.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 301 (Year 4) Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday Jesus 2017

Lucky me, Starbucks for a few super yummy treats coming soon- Thank you

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

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 300 (Year 4) Merry Christmas Eve 2017

A fun Christmas Eve family night filled with LOVE

'The life of a true Christian should be such that he fears neither death nor any event of his life, but endures and submits to all things with a good heart.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 299 (Year 4)

My little brother coming home tonight (thanks Charlie always love it when you are here)

'In prayer we should particularly combat our predominant passion or evil inclination. We should devote continual attention to it, because when it is once conquered we will easily obtain the victory over all our other faults.'

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 298 (Year 4)

Seeing lights with my dad and drinking iced teas together

'Jesus came on earth to be my model. I want to follow Him and walk generously in His footsteps.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 297 (Year 4)

A hot shower a relief

'If there are some present who do not understand what is being said or sung, they know at least that all is said and sung to the glory of God, and that is sufficient for them to join in it devoutly.'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 296 (Year 4)

Getting a lot of errands done (my sister prayed I would have energy)

'The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance in the next; the more sorrow in the present, the greater will be our joy in the future.'

St. Isidore of Seville

Finding Joy in the day, Day 295 (Year 4)

Happy Birthday to my youngest sister turning 17. 12/19/17 I love you and am SO grateful for your blessing in my life!

'Oh, what happiness we find in a community life! A precious treasure is enclosed in a community life.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 294 (Year 4)

Hearing my lil sisters Christmas Concert

'Already the walls of the prison are crumbling to dust, and the prisoner is about to enjoy the liberty of the children of God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 293 (Year 4)

Working on a plan

'My divine Savior has given to understand that those who work for the salvation of souls will have a gift of touching the most hardened hearts, and will labor with marvelous success, if they themselves are penetrated with a tender devotion to His Divine Heart.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 292 (Year 4)

A good meeting with a priest

'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 291 (Year 4)

Two coffee dates in one day

'Reflect that Job lost his possessions and his sons and his health: his wife remained to him for a perpetual scourge; and then, when God had tested his patience, He restored everything to him double, and at the end eternal life.'

St. Catherine of Siena

'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 290 (Year 4)

My sister and nephew offering up there sickness and praying for me today

'Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 289 (Year 4) Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec 12, 2017

Finishing my 33 days to Morning Glory consecration, (Mary I give myself in entirety to you to use according to yours and Jesus' will and purpose)

'Very often over a period of several years I was more occupied in wishing my hour of prayer were over and in listening whenever the clock struck than in thinking of the things that were good. Again and again, I would rather have done any severe penance than anything that might have given me the practice of recollection.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

She was a real person too! Still persevering inspite of her humanity trying to drag her away she remanned faithful

“Have you strayed from the path leading to heaven? Then call on Mary, for her name means "Star of the Sea, the North Star which guides the ships of our souls during the voyage of this life," and she will guide you to the harbor of eternal salvation.” 

St. Louis de Montfort

Finding Joy in the day, Day 288 (Year 4)

Appreciating my pre-lit christmas tree in my room

A wisdom filled father God has blessed me with 

'By Christ's Passion our weakness was cured. By His Resurrection death was conquered. Still we have to be sorrowful for the world, as well as joyful in the Lord, sorrowful in penance, joyful in gratitude.'

St. Ambrose of Milan

'Be despoiled of everything and the Sacred Heart of Jesus will enrich you. Empty your heart of everything and He will compensate you. Forget and abandon yourself.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 287 (Year 4)

Seeing my friend and sharing together

'Even the holiest desires, whether they refer to the salvation of souls or the needs of the Church, which are very great, should be consumed in the fire of the love of God, whence they proceed, and await God's time for their fulfilment. Meanwhile cultivate one only desire, the most perfect of all; that is, to please God more and more, and to nourish yourself with His will.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 286 (Year 4)

Yummy watermelon

'My only desire is to unite myself to my God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 285 (Year 4) 2nd Sunday of Advent 2017

My friend being my friend and loving me inspite of me.

'In all your afflictions and interior desolations make frequent acts of total abandonment to the will of God. Recite the chaplet which St. Gertrude composed of these words only: Fiat voluntas tua - "May Thy will be done." At other times say, with sentiments of perfect conformity to the divine will, "Thou art just, O Lord! and all Thy judgments are just, and all Thy ways are mercy, and truth, and judgment." (Tobias iii. 2.)'

St. Paul of the Cross

Lord make May they will be done and may thy grace be sufficient 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 284 (Year 4)

Getting a new duvet cover

'Pain and Love are almost synonymous words.'

St. Lydwine of Schiedam

Finding Joy in the day, Day 283 (Year 4) Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception 2017

Trying out my new comforter

“A Virgin, innocent, spotless, free of all defect, untouched, unsullied, holy in soul and body, like a lily sprouting among thorns.” – Theodotus of Ancrya (446) 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 281 (Year 4) Happy Feast of St. Nicholas 2017

A very sweet card with lots of loving words

'Sometimes God leaves us for a long time unable to effect any good, that we may learn to humble ourselves, and never to glory in our efforts.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

Finding Joy in the day, Day 282 (Year 4)

Getting my windows cleared from ice and my tire pressure adjusted

'When temptation comes, a man should remember the sweetnesses he has had in prayer at other times, and he will thus easily master the temptation.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 280 (Year 4)

Mom and dad getting off ok

'The proverb, "happiness leads to egoism," is only too true; you do not begin to experience compassion for others till you have been yourself in want; well-being and strength sterilize you, and you only perform acts which are vaguely correct, till you are lamed or reduced to poverty.'

St. Lydwine of Schiedam

Finding Joy in the day, Day 279 (Year 4) First Sunday of Advent Dec 3, 2017

Spending the day with mom and dad, going to Christmas market, and a full moon

'I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 278 (Year 4)

Meeting up with an out of town friend

'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 277 (Year 4)

Seeing great light display with great friends

'There is not a finer thing on earth, than to make a virtue of necessity.'

St. Philip Neri