Finding Joy in the day, Day 291 (Year 5)

A new white snowfall

'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 290 (Year 5)

Feast of the Holy Family to remind me to be grateful for my family

'Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 289 (Year 5)

The sun is out

'You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 288 (Year 5)

Snowflakes instead of rain

'My sweet Jesus, give me a great love for the cross, and if I do not die at the hands of others as you did, may I die by the intensity of my love.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

My Jesus, help my love to be intense like St. Bernadette

Finding Joy in the day, Day 287 (Year 5)

Getting my own copy of the book I am reading

'The divine Heart of Jesus must be so entirely substituted for our own, that He alone may live and act in us and for us; His Will must so annihilate ours that it may have absolute freedom to act without any resistance on our part; in fact, His affections, thoughts and desires must take the place of ours: thus He will love Himself with His own love in us and for us.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 286 (Year 5)

Fun gifts

'I have my weaknesses also, but I rejoice in them...It's so good to feel that one is weak and little.'

St. Therese of Lisieux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 285 (Year 5)

Funny family stories

'Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them.'

St. Peter of Alcantara

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

A sunny Christmas Eve

'We must not serve God for the sake of His consolations, but because He is worthy of being served.'

St. Paul of the Cross

 'When tribulations, infirmities, and contradictions come, we must not run away in a fright, but vanquish them like men.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 283 (Year 5)

Getting some errands done without having to wait too long in line

'Lord, grant that I may know Thee, and that I may know myself.'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 282 (Year 5)

Seeing my sister and nephews

'We protest before heaven and earth that our glory is in the cross, that it is the source of all our blessings, our every hope, and that it is that which has crowned every saint.'

St. John Chrysostom

Finding Joy in the day, Day 281 (Year 5)

Time with a friend

'We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.'

Bl. Peter Julian Eymard

Finding Joy in the day, Day 280 (Year 5)

At least its not raining

'You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.'

The Blessed Virgin, to Bl. Alan de la Roche

Finding Joy in the day, Day 279 (Year 5)

Reading in my book

'If, then, you are really surrendering yourselves to God, as you say, cease to be anxious for yourselves, for He bears your anxiety, and will bear it always.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 278 (Year 5)

A warm fire and a cozy room to sleep in

'The more the intellect is purified, the more the soul is granted spiritual knowledge of divine principles.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 277 (Year 5)

A day that is not too cold

‘I ought to burn of love for God out of gratitude for the kindness that He has shown me.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 276 (Year 5) Guadete Sunday 2018 "Come Lord Jesus"

Seeing a movie with my dad

'As by nature the soul gives life to the body, so virtue and spiritual knowledge give life to the soul.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 275 (Year 5)

Going to Mass and confession

'I hope all from the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ Who is so filled with love for you that, cost what it may, He wills you should become a saint.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to her brother a priest

Finding Joy in the day, Day 274 (Year 5) Feast of St. John of the Cross

Having a good prayer session

‘I ought to burn of love for God out of gratitude for the kindness that He has shown me.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 273 (Year 5) Feast of St. Lucy 2018

Getting some packages out in the mail

'Hope has been the sole companion of my life, the greatest aid in doubts, the strongest assistance in my weakness; hope, but not the hope in men, such as is thought to bring greater happiness and instead brings greater disaster, but hope in Christ, supported by the celestial promise that He will strengthen the weakest of men with a greatness of soul and divine help.'

Pope St. Pius X

Finding Joy in the day, Day 272 (Year 5) Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Getting some winter items

'Let all our actions be directed to the end that God may be glorified in all things.'

St. Benedict

Finding Joy in the day, Day 271 (Year 5)

Seeing my grandma

'The paralytic let down through the roof (cf. Mark 2:4) signifies a sinner reproved in God's name by the faithful and receiving forgiveness because of their faith.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 270 (Year 5)

Getting out in the morning

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

St. Philip Neri

'By the cross God perfects the loving soul that offers Him a fervent and generous heart.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 269 (Year 5)

Babies sucking on thumbs

'Leave your soul free to take her flight to the Sovereign Good as God shall guide her.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 268 (Year 5)

Getting ipad worked out

'How beautiful to look upon is the starry firmament! Yet it is only the portal of the blessed country where I hope to go one day.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 267 (Year 5)

Getting some early morning errands run

'When I go to the chapel, I put myself before the good God and say to Him, "Lord, here I am, give me what You wish." If He gives me something, I am happy and I thank Him. If He gives me nothing, I thank Him still, because I do not deserve anything more. Then I tell Him all that comes into my mind. I tell Him my sorrows and my joys - and I listen.'

St. Catherine Laboure

Finding Joy in the day, Day 266 (Year 5) St. Nicholas Day, 2018

A fun St. Nick's morning

'O sweet submission of Jesus, my sovereign God!'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 265 (Year 5)

Getting some pampering

'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

'We must cover the failings of our neighbor with the mantle of charity, attributing them to ignorance or inadvertence.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 264 (Year 5)

Getting prayed with

'He is the Source of all blessings, and will bestow them wherever the picture of His divine Heart is placed and honored.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 263 (Year 5)

Getting some errands done

'Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.'

Pope Pius IX

Hail Mary full of Grace, pray for us sinners!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 262 (Year 5)

Fresh pretty snow, signifies a new clean slate

'Where shalt thou rejoice? Upon the Cross, with the Spotless Lamb, seeking His honour and the salvation of souls, through continual, humble prayer. Now herein is all our perfection.'

St. Catherine of Siena

'What have I done for Christ? What am I doing for Christ? What ought I to do for Christ, my Lord and Saviour?'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Help me Lord to live for you, to live for the Christ-child and not for myself. Strengthen and restore my will to align and act according to yours.

Finding Joy in the day, Day 261 (Year 5) First Sunday in Advent 2018

Seeing someone special at church

'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

Jesus help me to honor all those who cross my path and to never act superior as I do in my human flesh all to often! St. Philip Neri, pray for me!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 260 (Year 5)

Getting some errands done

' I your pains and trials: "May thy holy will be done, O My God! Welcome ye afflictions! Beloved you to my heart! Ah! dear hand of my God, I bless Thee! Blessed be the holy rod that strikes me with so much love! Ah! tender Father, it is good for me to be humbled!"'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 259 (Year 5)

Seeing some of my family after about 4 months of being away

'Prayer is, beyond doubt, the most powerful weapon the Lord gives us to conquer evil passions and temptations of the devil; but we must really put ourselves into our prayer: it is not enough just to say the words, it must come from the heart. And also prayer needs to be continuous, we must pray no matter what kind of situation we find ourselves in: the warfare we are engaged in is on-going, so our prayer must be on-going also.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 258 (Year 5)

Getting picked up on time

'If you wish to be pleasing to God and happy here below, be in all things united to His will.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 257 (Year 5)

Mountain views

"Do not accept anything is the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth." Edith Stein 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 256 (Year 5)

A date

'As often as, for love of Me, you suffer reproach, so often will I strengthen you and bear you up, so that nothing may be an obstacle between your soul and Me. And I will add to your merit what the person admonished would have gained by submitting humbly to your advice.'

The Lord, to St. Gertrude the Great

Finding Joy in the day, Day 255 (Year 5)

A fun birthday package, thank you TS

'The flesh with its desire is opposed to the spirit, and the spirit opposed to the flesh, and those who live in the spirit will not carry out the desire of the flesh (cf. Gal. 5:15-17).'

St. Mark the Ascetic

 

Help me Holy Spirit to live in you and no longer in the flesh!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 254 (Year 5) Feast of Christ the King

A cozy pig

"before I come as the Just Judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy. Before the day of justice arrives, there will be given to people a sign in the heavens" (Diary 83)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 253 (Year 5)

Visiting with a friend

'Purgatory is in those souls that are not dead to themselves; Hell is in the heart of the impious; Paradise in that of the perfect, who are closely united to Our Lord.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

 

Dear Jesus, please help me to at least make it to Purgatory. Align my will to yours, strengthen and restore my will and actions to align with yours.

 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 252 (Year 5)

Getting my journaling done

'If God be with us, there is no one else left to fear.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 251 (Year 5) Happy Thanksgiving 2018

A snow free Thanksgiving actually sitting outside for more the 30 min

'God delights in those who make themselves little and become as little children; He keeps them near His person, and nourishes them with the milk of divine love, in order to prepare them for the sweet wine of holy love, which inebriates those who drink it; but it is a blessed wine, which gives daily more wisdom.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 250 (Year 5)

A listener

'The thought of Friday is suggestive of reflections so sad as to make one that truly loves sorrowful unto death; for was it not on that day that my Incarnate God suffered for me, even to immolating Himself for me, on the infamous gibbet of the cross?'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 249 (Year 5)

Getting to sit in the CO sun twice and not be cold

'I am very glad that our divine Master has shown you that these trials add to the burden of your office; for He wishes them to be the cause of your having more frequent recourse to His Goodness, which will turn all these things to His glory and to your advantage, if you second His designs.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to a Superioress

 

I surrender, Jesus heal and restore and strengthen my will to align and do what you will.

Finding Joy in the day, Day 248 (Year 5)

Gorgeous bouquet

'Let us believe in our son, and let him be our father for heaven.'

St. Gladys, to St. Gwynllyw of their son St. Cadoc

Finding Joy in the day, Day 247 (Year 5)

Getting to Chapel service and Holy Communion

'I have no need of anything, I have only poverty.'

St. Conrad of Parzham

 

St. Conrad pray for me to be just like you!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 246 (Year 5)

A new friendly person to join me for the day

'Self-contempt and perfect union with the divine will: these are the main points of the Christian life.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 245 (Year 5)

Working on a project

Do not say a dispassionate man cannot suffer affliction; for even if he does not suffer on his own account, he is under a liability to do so for his neighbor.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 232 (Year 5)

Time in the sun

'Let us ask Him to strengthen our weakness, to enrich our poverty, to soften the hardness of our hearts so as to make them susceptible to His pure love, which will not be content with a divided heart.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

'Let us concentrate ourselves so completely in the divine love, and enter so far into the living fountain of wisdom, through the wounded Side of our Incarnate God, that we may deny ourselves and our self-love, and so be unable to find our way out of that Wound again.'

St. Philip Neri

 

Please Holy Spirit and Mother Mary help me find my way into the wounded Side of Jesus.

Father God, restore and strengthen my will to align with yours, I pray for a miracle!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 244 (Year 5)

Getting confession, communion, and emails from Dad

'We must be careful not to omit our prayers, Confession, Communion, and other exercises of piety, even when we find no consolation in them.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

Finding Joy in the day, Day 243 (Year 5)

Two times to sit in the Denver sun and not be cold

'I resolve to cultivate a deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and strive to imitate her virtues. '

St. Conrad of Parzham, resolutions in the novitiate

 

I ask your help Mary and Holy Trinity to actively seek Mary as my mother for help and to imitate her in saying yes to all God asks of me

Finding Joy in the day, Day 242 (Year 5)

My dad trying to call me

'Enlighten me, O Lord! and make known to me what I must do to be saved, for with Thy help I will do all that Thou requirest of me.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

 

Lord please be a miraculous help to me because I keep failing at doing what you require! Help me Lord, save me from myself!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 241 (Year 5)

Getting some mail

 

'Love Him with all your strength, think always of Him, let Him do with you, in you and for you whatever He wills, and do not be anxious about anything else.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 240 (Year 5)

Finally finishing some not so good books, on to hopefully a better one!

'Doubtless you are one of those plants which the Heavenly Father has placed in His Garden to cultivate with His own Hand, to preserve by His Providence, to unfold by His grace, and to cause to flower in the odor of sweetness by the warmth of His sacred love, provided that you courageously resist the opposition the enemy will strive to raise.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 239 (Year 5)

Having sun despite the cold snow

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards only a cup of cold water given for love of Him

St. Dominic Savio

Finding Joy in the day, Day 238 (Year 5)

Having good company

'O my God, I do not ask you to keep me from suffering, but to be with me in affliction. Teach me to seek you as my only comforter; sustain my faith; strength my hope; purify my life. Grant me the grace to recognize your hand in the midst of suffering and to want no other comforter than you.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 237 (Year 5)

Getting a new device in the mail

'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

 

'Like Jesus we will say: 'It was truly necessary for suffering to try us and bring us to glory'.'

St. Therese of Lisieux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 236 (Year 5)

Sun in the window and room warmed up

'If you want with a few words to benefit one who is eager to learn, speak to him about prayer, right faith, and the patient acceptance of what comes. For all else that is good is found through these.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 235 (Year 5)

Seeing my friend again that I have been in contact with for the last 10 years but just started seeing her now that I am in Denver and she lives close by

'Obedience to a commandment purifies the soul, and purification of the soul leads to its participation in light.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

 

Jesus strengthen me to resist sins and lying and live in complete obedience to you will and to know I can trust you even though I feel so out of control

 

'I looked at Thy Cross, O Christ, and read there the song of Thy Love!'

St. John of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 234 (Year 5)

Getting some copies made

'A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.'

Padre Pio

 

Jesus when I have more opportunities to visit the Blessed Sacrament please draw me to you and give me the desire and will power to visit you frequently, Help me Jesus, be my strength and drive for life in love with you and to satisfy you alone!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 233 (Year 5)

Making a picture collage of my family

'Love and self-control purify the soul, while pure prayer illumines the intellect.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 231 (Year 5)

Getting to a small church service and getting Catholic communion

'Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 230 (Year 5)

Not disappointing someone when I told them the truth

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

St. Therese of Lisieux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 229 (Year 5)

Crying even though I feel crummy

'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 228 (Year 5)

Getting to sit in the sun outside despite it being a little cooler

'God "tested Abraham" (cf. Gen. 22:1-14), that is, God afflicted him for his own benefit, not in order to learn what kind of man Abraham was - for He knew him, since He knows all things before they come into existence - but in order to provide him with opportunities for showing perfect faith.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

 

Lord help me have the faith and perseverance as your completely faithful Abraham was, and be able to trust and surrender to you in what seems to be impossible

Finding Joy in the day, Day 227 (Year 5)

Getting some sun in the window this morning

'Prayer is never more perfect than when it ascends from the very depth and essence of the soul; we pray, then, in the spirit of God. This is a sublime language, but when God wills, He makes even the stones speak. Let the sovereign God reign in your spirit; there ought to be a reciprocal repose: God in you, and you in God. O sweet, O divine operation!'

St. Paul of the Cross

 

'And so, dearly beloved, make firm your resolve, knowing that you cannot do anything greater for your spouse Christ Jesus than persevere and finish under the yoke which you have taken up through him, aware that the enemy sometimes makes the way seem too narrow or too long.'

St. Catherine of Bologna

Finding Joy in the day, Day 215 (Year 5)

Seeing a friend for first time in 10 yrs

'Created free and called to freedom (cf. Gal. 5:13), do not be enslaved by impure passions.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

'When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His good pleasure, by whom it is certain that adversity is sent with as much love as prosperity, and as much for our good? When shall we cast ourselves undeservedly into the arms of our most loving Father in Heaven, leaving to Him the care of ourselves and of our affairs, and reserving only the desire of pleasing Him, and of serving Him well in all that we can?'

St. Jane Frances de Chantal

Finding Joy in the day, Day 226 (Year 5)

Getting my journaling done today

'Keep yourself in the presence of our Lord, not only during prayer, but also at other times, as a disciple before his Master, anxious to do His Will by giving up his own.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 225 (Year 5) Feast of All Souls

A little walk

'Above all, I must be attached to no one but Jesus Christ. I ask Him for His light, His strength, His divine life. I must strive for a holy death in Him and with Him. I am a Religious, thus I have made a profession of perfection.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 224 (Year 5) All Saints Day

Good company

'Let the rule of thy life be to walk in the light of faith and in the brightness, with which the Omnipotent shall fill and illumine thy soul, and to continue to love, adore and reverence Him, without any cessation or diminution.'

The Blessed Virgin, to Ven. Mary of Agreda

 

All you holy men and women, pray for us

Finding Joy in the day, Day 223 (Year 5) The eve of all Saints

Liking the people here to help me

'Remain in peace, wholly given over and immolated to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ Who, I am sure, will never forsake you. He will take special care of you, in proportion as you trust in Him, and abandon yourself with unswerving fidelity to Him, whenever there is a question of proving your love.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 222 (Year 5)

A better day than the weekend

'This Creed is the spiritual seal, our heart's meditation and an ever-present guardian; it is, unquestionably, the treasure of our soul.'

St. Ambrose of Milan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 221 (Year 5)

Getting to sit out in the Denver 70's and sun

'Whether we will or no, we must suffer. There are some who suffer like the good thief, and others like the bad thief.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

Lord help me to suffer well!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 220 (Year 5)

Getting to chapel service and communion

'Subjugate your body, strip it of sensual pleasures, and free it from base servitude.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Jesus Help me give my daily life and body over to you, I surrender, help me not feel like I have to take control

Finding Joy in the day, Day 219 (Year 5)

Talking to my friend on the phone again today :)

'It is a most useful thing, when we see another doing any spiritual good to his neighbour, to seek by prayer to have a part in that same good which the Lord is working by the hand of another.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 218 (Year 5)

New gum yum

'When God speaks to souls by lights or impressions, in an angelic manner, without articulated words, His communications are sublime, being purely intellectual. In this case God speaks with great majesty, and His word produces wonderful effects.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 217 (Year 5)

A huge network of prayer warriors and supporters!

'Let us apply ourselves only to love and to suffer while loving. When we have acquired the perfect knowledge thereof, then we shall know and do all that God wishes of us.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 216 (Year 5)

Getting snail mail

'Humble yourself, resign yourself, and abandon yourself to God with entire confidence, always keeping in view your nothingness.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 214 (Year 5) Feast of St. John Paul II

Talking to my dad

'By wishing to do too much, we often spoil everything, constraining our Lord to leave us to act alone and withdraw from us in sorrow.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 213 (Year 5)

Getting good naps in

'It is an old custom with the servants of God always to have some little prayers ready, and to be darting them up to heaven frequently during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the filth of this world. He who adopts this plan will get great fruit with little pains.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 212 (Year 5)

Sort of smooth transition

 

'Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. This is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 211 (Year 5)

New pink blankets

'Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. This is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 210 (Year 5)

Safe flight

'Be grateful to the person who nurses you; take whatever she offers you. In brief, act as a child in the arms of its mother. Remain in your bed as on the cross. Jesus prayed for three hours on the cross, and His was a truly crucified prayer, with no comfort from within or without.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 209 (Year 5)

Help from a friend really above and beyond

'Acknowledge that without Me thou canst do nothing, but I will never let thee lack help as long as thou keepest thy weakness and nothingness buried in My strength.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 208 (Year 5)

So much support from friends and family

'Others say, "If I neglect mental prayer, I do not mis-spend my time; I employ it in study." But the Apostle said to Timothy: "Take heed to thyself and to doctrine;" Attend first to thyself, that is, to prayer, and then to doctrine, that is, to study, in order to procure the salvation of others.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 207 (Year 5)

Getting some packing done

'Mary, my mother, have pity on me.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 206 (Year 5)

Getting back to campus on time

'When the devil again tempts you to sin, telling you that God is merciful, remember that the Lord showeth mercy to them that fear Him, but not to them who despise Him.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 205 (Year 5)

A good hopeful talk with the Dr.

'Inveterate wickedness requires long practice of the virtues; for an engrained habit is not easily uprooted.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

'Search me, O Lord, and try me: prove my reins and my heart.'

Psalm 26:2

Finding Joy in the day< Day 204 (Year 5)

Friends and family who always support and pray for me

'Consider often that it is only the humble of heart that can enter into the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, converse with Him, love Him and be loved by Him.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 203 (Year 5)

Getting a new book, hopefully I have the discipline to read it

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

Psalm 131:8

Finding Joy in the day, Day 202 (Year 5)

Help from a good friend

'Again, grace may be hidden in advice given by a neighbor. Sometimes it also accompanies our understanding during reading, and as a natural result teaches our intellect the truth about itself. If, then, we do not hide the talent given to us in this way, we shall enter actively into the joy of the Lord.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 201 (Year 5)

Getting things to hopefully work out

'Learn to be silent sometimes for the edification of others, that you may learn how to speak sometimes.'

St. Vincent Ferrer

Finding Joy in the day, Day 200 (Year 5)

A very very lazy day

'Each degree of prayer presupposes a purification.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'I have heard thy sighs, and the desires of thy heart are so pleasing to Me, that had I not instituted My divine Sacrament of love, I would do so now for love of thee, so as to have the pleasure of dwelling in thy soul and of taking My loving repose in thy heart.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 199 (Year 5)

All the support of my friends and family

'Escape from temptation through patience and prayer. If you oppose temptation without these, it only attacks you more strongly.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 196 (Year 5) Feast of the Archangels

Getting some naps and rest today!

'The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself.'

St. Peter Julian Eymard

(p.s.) the year I will probably update at the end of each calendar year since I have started this even if I have not completed 365/66 days in that year. I think year end is late Feb or early March, I will probably  start with March 1.

Finding Joy in the day, Day 198 (Year 5)

Talking to my dad and his love and forgiveness

'Some men abstain from the passions because of human fear, others because of self-esteem, and others through self-control. Some, however, are delivered from the passions by divine providence.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

Lord, deliver me from my passions make my passion only for you and you be my sole source of comfort! Jesus, I trust in you, Jesus, I surrender

Finding Joy in the day, Day 197 (Year 5)

Getting more pieces of the "puzzle" put together

'There is where I study my sermon - at the foot of the crucifix.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 195 (Year 5)

Getting through a super long week

'Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.'

St. Paul of the Cross

P.S. I am very sorry to my readers I am in school and I don't have daily access to my computer so will no longer be able to keep up with my daily postings 😢😢 I will do my best to at least post 2x on weekends when I have more access.  I am very sad I can't keep it up daily, my apologies.

Finding Joy in the day, Day 194 (Year 5)

Getting somethings checked off the list

'As work according to God is called virtue, so unexpected affliction is called a test.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 193 (Year 5)

Made it through two long days looking forward to tomorrow off

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples John 8:31

Finding Joy in the day, Day 192 (Year 5)

Not quite as long a seminar as last year

'Unlimited self-denial. Love for and fidelity to Jesus, my Spouse, until death.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 191 (Year 5)

Going to prayer room

'The devotion to His Sacred Heart contains ineffable treasures which He wishes to bestow upon all hearts of goodwill; it is the last effort of the love of our Lord towards sinners to draw them to repentance and give them in abundances His efficacious and sanctifying graces.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 190 (Year 5)

Getting a lot unpacked

'I would willingly endure alone all the sufferings of this world to be raised a degree higher in Heaven and to possess the smallest increase of the knowledge of God's greatness.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 189 (Year 5)

Seeing my nephew
Getting to Pomona ok

'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 188 (Year 5)

having time and motivation to make a few things

'The more deeply the cross penetrates, the better; the more deprived suffering is of consolation the purer it will be; the more creatures oppose us, the more closely shall we be united to God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 187 (Year 5)

Getting home safe and a loving and helpful family

'O my Jesus, help me to love you; love me, and then crucify me as much as you please.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 186 (Year 5)

A nice shower

'When I commit any faults, after having punished myself for them by penance, I will offer to the Eternal Father one of the virtues of the divine Heart, in order to repair the outrages of which I have been guilty, and thus little by little pay my debt.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 185 (Year 5)

Seeing some absolutely amazing friends

'To have nothing, to be able to do nothing, to know nothing! and God will cause to spring from this nothingness the work of His greatest glory.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 178 (Year 5)

Getting to see a friend today

'If you make a habit of listening to spiritual teaching, your intellect will escape from impure thoughts.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 179 (Year 5)

By chance seeing some out of town friends unexpectedly
My sister coming to see me

'One of the things which we must be very firm about, if we are to please our Lord, is to cast far from us everything that could remove us from the love of our brethren. We should make every effort to love them with a tender charity, for Supreme Truth has said: This is how all will know you are my disciples, etc. [John 13:35]'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 184 (Year 5)

Love and Help from my brother 

'Suffer bravely, and be content that the divine good pleasure be accomplished in you. You must be immolated and sacrificed to it with unshaken trust that the Sacred Heart will not forsake you: It is closer to you in suffering than in consolation.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 183 (Year 5)

A drink from mom

'He who wishes to purify his faults purifies them with tears and he who wishes to acquire virtues, acquires them with tears.'

St. Poemen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 182 (Year 5)

Getting my morning stuff out of the way

'Courage then! Finish what you have begun for the sake of this divine Heart, and rest assured that Our Lord will repay you a hundredfold for all that you do for His love.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 181 (Year 5)

Help with my suitcases from my awesome strong brother, Thanks JF

'Avoid over-eagerness and strive to model your interior and exterior upon the humble sweetness of the loving Heart of Jesus, doing each of your actions with the same tranquility as if you had but that alone to do.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 180 (Year 5)

I nice scripture from my mom (Psalm 145)

'I constitute thee heiress of My Heart and of all Its treasures, for time and for eternity, allowing thee to dispose of them according to thy desire; and I promise thee that My assistance will not fail thee, as long as My heart fails not in power. Thou shall be forever Its beloved disciple.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

'He alone suffices to my heart and my soul, which desires nothing save to rest quite simply in His divine presence, without making any other acts than those of love. It is thus that I frequently spend whole days: they are never long enough to love my God.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 173 (Year 5)

Sleeping in a little and still getting up a little early

“There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.”—St. Augustine, Enchiridion, 8

'The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.'

St. Albert the Great

Finding Joy in the day, Day 172 (Year 5)

Getting a good night sleep

'Once the soul starts to feel its own good health, the images in its dreams are also calm and free from passion.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

'Do not distress yourself on account of any distaste or dryness you experience in God's service. He wills that you should serve Him fervently and constantly it is true, but without any other help than simple faith, and thus your love will be more disinterested, and your service the more pleasing to Him.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 177 (Year 5)

Listening to a good book (Adrift- movie tie in)

'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 176 (Year 5)

Going for a sunny walk

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

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 175 (Year 5)

Good prayer ministry
New phone case

'He who does not know the truth cannot truly have faith; for by nature knowledge precedes faith.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 174 (Year 5)

Seeing my two sweet cousins 

'The Holy Eucharist very often invigorates and strengthens even the body. O infinite mercy of our sovereign Good! this marvellous effect proceeds from the great vigor which the bread of angels communicates to the soul, and which reacts on the body.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 171 (Year 5)

Getting some good sleep

'Frequent Confession, frequent Communion, daily Mass: these are the pillars which should sustain the whole edifice of education.'

St. John Bosco

Finding Joy in the day, Day 170 (Year 5)

An email from a friend

'O most loveable Jesus, the sighs of my heart rise up to you.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 169 (Year 5)

Getting some coupons printed

'It is certain that God desires that which is most advantageous to us much more than we desire it ourselves. He knows better than we by what means that which is best for us must arrive. The choice of means is entirely in His hands, since it is He who disposes and regulates all things in the world. With perfect trust in God, let us say: "Thy will be done!"'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 168 (Year 5) Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Mary's yes to Jesus and the Feast right before my favorite mystery of the Rosary (my favorite Mary is crowned with 12 stars)

'The Father bears witness from heaven to His Son. The Holy Spirit bears witness, coming down bodily in the form of a dove. The archangel Gabriel bears witness, bringing the good tidings to Mary. The Virgin Mother of God bears witness.'

St. Cyril of Jerusalem

Finding Joy in the day, Day 167 (Year 5)

Getting some stuff done in the morning

'Strive ever to have a loving and filial fear, which will lead you to do good and avoid evil, rejecting all other fears, for they only come from the spirit of darkness.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 166 (Year 5)

Having good weather the past week

'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 161 (Year 5)

Seeing my friend and a new backpack for my trip

'We ought to imitate the gardeners and the vine-dressers; when a storm breaks out they retire to the shed, and remain there until the storm has passed. So, in the midst of the tempests with which we are threatened on account of our sins and those of the world, we should retire under the golden tent of the divine will, rejoicing that the good pleasure of the Sovereign Master is being accomplished in all things.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'. . . I have written here below at some length some counsels to comfort those persons who have entered the noble battle of this obedience and, being strongly attacked and assaulted by their own will and by how they see things or how things appear to them, are very sad, thinking that, by this, they lose all the merit of obedience. That is not true, because every virtue is perfected by its contrary. That this is true I will show later when I will speak of this excellent and beautiful virtue of obedience which is worthily called the queen or noble empress.'

St. Catherine of Bologna

Finding Joy in the day, Day 160 (Year 5)

Getting up on time

'The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.'

John 6:64

'Thou hast still a long, painful and rugged path to tread, on which thou wilt often need to take breath and rest in My Sacred Heart; on that account. It shall always be open to thee, as long as thou walkest in Its ways.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

'In a word, let us be all to God, all for God and all in God; and remember that He wills you to lead an exemplary life, wholly pure and angelic.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to her brother a priest

Finding Joy in the day, Day 165 (Year 5)

Sleeping better last night

'Pray for us that Our Lord may enable us to triumph over our enemies so terribly arrayed against us.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 164 (Year 5)

Getting one thing check off my list for the day

'True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 163 (Year 5)

Getting to see my friend before I left

'It was revealed to St. Gertrude, that when any one repeats with devotion these words to the Virgin: "Turn, then, towards us, oh our advocate, thy pitying eyes," Mary never fails to listen to the prayer.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 162 (Year 5)

Having two fun friend dates and Caribou

'If you have not yet received the gift of prayer or psalmody, ask persistently, and you will receive.'

St. Nilus of Sinai

Finding Joy in the day, Day 155 (Year 5)

An ok day and not major injury to my knee

'I exhort you to speak little and to pray very much.'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

Finding Joy in the day, Day 159 (Year 5)

Safe travels

'For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown in his name, you who have ministered, and do minister to the saints.'

Hebrews 6:10

Finding Joy in the day, Day 158 (Year 5)

A friend stopping by with a gift

'He who wishes to find Jesus will do so only by having recourse to Mary.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 157 (Year 5)

Good deal on a Patagonia

'We read in the holy Canticles, that at the Assumption of the Virgin, the angels three times asked her name: "Who is she that goeth up by the desert as a pillar of smoke?" "Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising?" And in another: "Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights?" Richard of St. Laurence inquires why the angels so often asked the name of this queen, and answers: The sound of the name of Mary was so sweet to the angels, and they repeated the question that they might hear it repeated also.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 156 (Year 5)

Not really losing mom's graduation ring

'Happy the soul that is detached from self-satisfaction, from her own will, from her own sentiments!'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 154 (Year 5) Feast of St. Alphonsus Marie Liguori

Good prayer ministry session

'Let nothing disturb thee. Let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything. God alone suffices.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 153 (Year 5) Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Being able to wake up super early, hopefully tomorrow is the same

'We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led.'

St. Thomas Aquinas

Finding Joy in the day, Day 152 (Year 5)

Figuring out my library pin

'Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Divine Heart of my Jesus, grant that I may love you always, and always more.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 146 (Year 5)

Seeing a new nature center and always when I get a coffee cooler

'I have to seek only the glory of God, my own sanctification, and the salvation of my neighbor. I should therefore devote myself to these things, if necessary, at the peril of my life.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Virtue does not consist in making good resolutions, nor in saying fine words, but in keeping ones resolutions and carrying out one's good intentions.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 151 (Year 5)

Happened upon Caribou Happy Hour, half price drinks

'No one can experience suffering and remorse in a way that accords with God's will, unless he first loves what causes them.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 150 (Year 5)

Good confession

'I must efface and annihilate myself and live poor, unknown, forgotten and despised by divine Master, so that He may found His Kingdom on my nothingness.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 149 (Year 5)

Finishing a good audiobook

'To encourage ourselves to endure patiently the labors and afflictions of this life, it is well to reflect that they are much less than the pains of Purgatory.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 148 (Year 5) Feast of Sts Anne and Joachim

Smell of diffusing oils

'A strong man is one who repels evil through the practice of the virtues and with spiritual knowledge.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 147 (Year 5)

Getting the green light

'He loves you and would not have you attach yourself to what is perishable, but to Himself Who alone can satisfy your heart, and He will do so and fill it in the measure in which you empty it of creatures.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 145 (Year 5)

A delicious cup of tea

'It is better to accustom ourselves to seek God in everything we do, than to spend a long time in prayer.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 144 (Year 5)

Majorly sleeping in

'My heart breaks when I think of the sorrows of the most holy Virgin.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 143 (Year 5)

Pedicures with 2 amazing women

'Beholding with the eye of faith bitterness, persecutions, and sufferings of soul or body-beholding them, I say, with the eye of faith, as so many jewels sent us by divine love, they are no longer bitter, but become most sweet and pleasing.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 142 (Year 5)

A full day off of obligations

'The sick man may desire to get well, provided he seals his desire always with an "If it please God," "If it is good for my soul;" for we can do many good things in health, which sickness hinders us from doing.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 141 (Year 5)

Caribou Perks

'When the object of our love is infinite we can always love more and more.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 140 (Year 4)

Getting a "Hello" from someone in CA

'I commend to you devotion in helping your neighbor's soul in such a manner, that you always have a care of your own, to preserve and perfect it in every kind of virtue to the glory of the Lord our God.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 139 (Year 5)

Making a really good coffee smoothie

'God, heal your creature, that he not be ruled by the enemy.'

St. Poemen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 138 (Year 5)

Almost full size coffee sample at Starbucks ;)

'Patient endurance is a continuous effort for the soul; it is born of suffering freely chosen and of trials that come unsought.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 137 (Year 5)

Talking to people

'Do not shun poverty and afflictions, these wings of buoyant prayer.'

St. Nilus of Sinai

Finding Joy in the day, Day 136 (Year 5) Feast of St. Kateri July 14, 2018 a patron of mine

Sacraments, forgiveness, and a beautiful prayer

'Every good work which we perform through our own natural powers causes us to refrain from the corresponding sin; but without grace it cannot contribute to our sanctification.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 135 (Year 5)

Not getting too wet in the rain

'I feel such great sorrow at having offended Thee, O infinite Goodness, that I fain would suffer all the punishment due not only to the sins I have committed, but also to those into which I should have fallen, had it not been for the help of Thy grace.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 134 (Year 5)

Caribou

'O my Mother, come to my aid; grant me the grace of dying to myself so I will no longer live save in my sweet Jesus and for my Jesus.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 133 (Year 5)

Not feeling so groggy in the morning

'I am persuaded that a servant of God recovered from illness is cured, partly in order that he may direct and arrange all the acts of his life to the glory of God, our adorable Master.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 132 (Year 5)

Getting a new nose stud

'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 131 (Year 5)

A nice and much needed visit with a friend

'He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

John 14:21

(Lord, help me to keep your commandments instead of trying to do things my way, show my heart your love and who you are, that I may trust and love you from my heart)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 130 (Year 5)

Seeing my grandma

'Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow.'

St. Clare of Assisi

Finding Joy in the day, Day 129 (Year 5)

Going out with my papa

'Sufferings are the pearls of Jesus crucified.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 128 (Year 5)

Seeing my sister and nephew and going out with my mom

'Sickness is a great grace of God; it teaches us what we are; in it we recognize the patient, humble, and mortified man. When sickness weakens and mortifies the body, the soul is better disposed to raise herself up to God.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 127 (Year 5)

Seeing Fireworks with my parents

'Pay no attention to sensible consolations; make of them a sacrifice to God, and never set your heart on them.'

St. Paul of the Cross

(St. Paul pray for me that I can detach from my sensible attachments)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 126 (Year 5) 4th of July 2018

Getting new knee injections, I sure hope they help
Driving into a Rainbow

'All I say to you now is, console the poor Mother of Jesus. It is a miracle that she does not die; she is absorbed in the sufferings of Jesus. Imitate her, and ask Magdalen and the beloved disciple St. John what are their sentiments.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 125 (Year 5)

A good massage even though there was a fire drill in the middle of it

'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

(this is kind of encouraging) 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 124 (Year 5)

A free Caribou drink from my perks (I ordered an $8 drink) yum yum

'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 123 (Year 5)

Getting a few extra work hours

'Sufferings are the richest presents that the Divine Majesty bestows on you.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 122 (Year 5)

Seeing one of my dearest and longest friend

'Be generous, and remember that you ought to walk in the footsteps of your Redeemer.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 121 (Year 5)

Getting some returns made

'In order to preserve holy purity it is necessary to love it much, to distrust one's self, to be cautious with all-in a word, it is necessary to fear and to fly.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 120 (Year 5)

Getting cold caribou and the nice hot day I barely had to wear my sweatshirt

'There is no surer or clearer proof of the love of God than adversity.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 119 (Year 5)

Getting my car back

'We must give ourselves to God altogether.'

St. Philip Neri

(Jesus I surrender all, help me when I am weak and take it back)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 118 (Year 5)

Getting a nearly new pair of shoes that doesn't ever go on sale for about 60% off, yay FB Marketplace

'We have no time to go to sleep here, for Paradise was not made for poltroons.'

St. Philip Neri

(just because I like the new word "poltroons"

Finding Joy in the day, Day 117 (Year 5)

Getting a couple things off my list

'Pray twenty-four hours every day - that is, perform all your actions with heart and mind raised to God, holding yourself in interior solitude, and reposing in God in pure faith.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 116 (Year 5) Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Finding good bargains at the discount grocery store

'Not only the heavens, but the sight of a blade of grass, or of the most insignificant thing, suffices to inflame with love of God the heart that knows Him.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 115 (Year 5) (eve of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist)

Getting to church on time

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” -- John the Baptist

Finding Joy in the day, Day 114 (Year 5)

A good deal on a light jacket, yay garage sales

'To him who hungers after Christ grace is food; to him who is thirsty, a reviving drink; to him who is cold, a garment; to him who is weary, rest; to him who prays, assurance; to him who mourns, consolation.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 113 (Year 5)

Finally washing my duvet cover

'As long as the pot is on the fire, no fly nor any other animal can get near it, but as soon as it is cold, these creatures get inside. So it is for the monk; as long as he lives in spiritual activities, the enemy cannot find a means of overthrowing him.'

St. Poemen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 112 (Year 5)

A lazy start to the day

'The best of attitudes is humility.
The best of occupations, work.
The best of sentiments, pity.
The best of cares, justice.
The best of pains, that which a man takes to make peace between two enemies.
The best of sorrows, sorrow for sin.
The best of chararacters, generosity.

St. Cadoc

Finding Joy in the day, Day 111 (Year 5)

I keep forgetting to say the fireflies out my window at night, sparkling beauty

'You will lose nothing of what you have renounced for the Lord's sake. For in its own time it will return to you greatly multiplied.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 110 (Year 5)

Pretty much a full day with no tasks that have to get done or errands that have to be run

'He who suffers in patience, suffers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 109 (Year 5)

Getting the trash and recycling out

'He who wishes to attain to perfection must have no attachment to anything.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 108 (Year 5)

Getting a really good deal on one of my favorite essential oils

'As regards your taking up your abode in His Sacred Heart, why should you fear? Our Lord Himself invites you to come to Him and take your rest in His Heart. Is It not the throne of mercy, where the most miserable are the most favorably received, provided that, although steeped in misery, they are drawn by love?'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 107 (Year 5)

Getting coffee with my coworker      

'Acknowledge that without Me thou canst do nothing, but I will never let thee lack help as long as thou keepest thy weakness and nothingness buried in My strength.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 106 (Year 5)

Finding 2 $1 shirts

'He who is gentle in God's sight is wiser than the wise; and he who is humble in heart is stronger than the strong. For they bear the yoke of Christ with spiritual knowledge.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 105 (Year 5)

Getting a lot of shopping done

'If you wish to acquire the gift of prayer, you must humbly persevere in mortifying your senses. . . I especially advise you to be very faithful to holy recollection, mortifying your eyes, your tongue and your ears, but cutting off all vain curiosity, which is often the cause of the distractions which beset you in your [spiritual] exercises.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 104 (Year 5)

Not raining as much as I thought 

'Awake, my soul, awake; bestir thy energies, arouse thy apprehension; banish the sluggishness of thy deadly sloth, and take to thee solicitude for thy salvation.'

St. Anselm of Canterbury

Finding Joy in the day, Day 103 (Year 5)

Seeing my first Broadway Musical

'I have sinned against God, and have broken His commandments a thousand times. Wretch that I am, I deserve to be beaten and ill-treated by every one, and I ought only to be considered as dirt and smoke.'

St. John of God

'Now I shall die happy, since the Sacred Heart of my Saviour is beginning to be known; for it seems to me that, through His mercy, I am almost wholly stripped and divested of esteem and reputation in the minds of others, which consoles me more than I can say.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 102 (Year 5)

Getting to confession

'Fancy a sculptor who sends for a piece of wood which he wishes to form into a fine statue. The wood-choppers carry to his shop a rough and shapeless log. The sculptor begins to smooth it down, using first the hatchet, then the saw, afterwards the plane, and finally the chisel. What does the wood do? Does it make any resistance? No, it allows itself to be worked upon until it becomes a beautiful statue.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 101 (Year 5)

I kind card from Grandma B

'Your love for God must be so great that grace may triumph over your heart and over all human respect. No more self-introspection. Provided that the good pleasure of the Sacred Heart is accomplished, suffering and enjoyment must be a matter of indifference to you.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 100 (Year 5)

Getting through a long day

'Seek Him, and rest not until thou hast found Him, whom thy soul desires, hold Him and do not let Him go (Cant. 3, 4).'

The Blessed Virgin, to Ven. Mary of Agreda

Finding Joy in the day, Day 99 (Year 5)

Getting a longer massage, ahhh!!!!!!!

'The value of a thing is only its worth before God.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

'We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have against our own will to bear with natural defects in ourselves.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 98 (Year 5)

Getting in an appointment for brow wax

'To encourage ourselves to endure patiently the labors and afflictions of this life, it is well to reflect that they are much less than the pains of Purgatory.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 97 (Year 5)

Getting sunshine

'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 96 (Year 5)

Getting out of the house

'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 95 (Year 5)

Getting a couple extra hours

'Let the Lord seek His image, wash away from it all accumulated uncleanness that has stained it and so brighten up the mirror of the human heart.'

St. Prosper of Aquitaine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 94 (Year 5)

Having the night off

'In proportion as the love of God increases in our soul, so does also the love of suffering.'

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 93 (Year 5)

Seeing my friend briefly

'Have great diffidence of yourself. "Without Me," your Saviour tells you, "you can do nothing." (John xv. 5.) And the apostle St. James: "Every perfect gift is from above." (James i. 17)'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 92 (Year 5)

Staying mostly dry from the rain

'Brethren, says St. Paul, let the great business of your eternal salvation be the sole object of all your care.

It is the most important affair, because if the soul be lost, all is lost.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 91 (Year 5)

An extra hand

'We should not spare expense, fatigue, nor even our life, when there is a question of accomplishing the holy will of God.'

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 86 (Year 5)

A safe and pleasant drive

'As the body without the soul cannot love, so the soul without prayer is dead'

St. John Chrysostom

'O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 90 (Year 5)

Cool lightning in the sky

'He who knows the Holy Trinity, the Trinity's creation, and providence, and who has brought his soul's passible aspect into a state of dispassion, is with God.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

Finding Joy in the day, Day 89 (Year 5) Memorial Day 2018

Getting to stay at my parents

'Frequent Confession, frequent Communion, daily Mass: these are the pillars which should sustain the whole edifice of education.'

St. John Bosco

Finding Joy in the day, Day 88 (Year 5) Trinity Sunday

Getting prayed over feeling momentarily more peaceful for the night

'If the love of God is in your heart, you will understand that to suffer for God is a joy to which all earthly pleasures are not to be compared.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 87 (Year 5)

Seeing my parents and siblings

'The truly physician-like intellect is one that first heals itself and then heals others of the diseases of which it has been cured.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 85 (Year 5)

Finding some fun stuff 😃but spending WAY too much money on it 😢

'Whoever would follow Jesus Christ, must walk in His footsteps, if he would not go astray.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

'A man of prayer is capable of everything. He can say with St. Paul, "I can do all things in Him who strengthened me."'

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 84 (Year 5)

Stress baking

'Hardship and distress, whether of our own choosing or providential, destroy sensual pleasure.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

'Lean on the Cross of Jesus as the Virgin did and you will not be deprived of comfort. Mary was as if paralyzed before her crucified Son, but one cannot say that she was abandoned by Him. Rather, how much more did she love Him when she suffered and could not even weep?'

Padre Pio

Finding Joy in the day, Day 82 (Year 5) First Feast of Mary Mother of the Church

Having a good session

'You must offer yourself to God as a mere nothing to its Creator Who, finding no resistance, will give it such being as pleases Him.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 83 (Year 5)

Getting some cards in the mail and sending some out at the post office

'The best of attitudes is humility.
The best of occupations, work.
The best of sentiments, pity.
The best of cares, justice.
The best of pains, that which a man takes to make peace between two enemies.
The best of sorrows, sorrow for sin.
The best of chararacters, generosity.

St. Cadoc

'Give not your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.'

St. Poemen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 81 (Year 5) Pentecost Sunday

2 days in a row to sleep in late

'It is impossible, to the human mind, to comprehend that infinite, eternal, immense Being; all that we can understand of Him in this life is nothing in comparison to the reality.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 80 (Year 5)

Seeing and praying with a friend

'Then let us call this place the Monastery of Tears.'

St. Columba

Finding Joy in the day, Day 76 (Year 5)

A massage

'You will lose nothing of what you have renounced for the Lord's sake. For in its own time it will return to you greatly multiplied.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

"Despite the gravity of our sins, oh Lord you treat us with Gentleness. "

Finding Joy in they day, Day 79 (Year 5)

Awesome parents

'Armed with prayer, the saints sustained a glorious warfare and vanquished all their enemies. By prayer, also, they appeased the wrath of God, and obtained from Him all they desired.'

Ven. Louis de Granada

Finding Joy in the day, Day 78 (Year 5)

Getting rid of my headache

'Steadfast faith is a strong tower; and for one who has faith Christ comes to be all.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 77 (Year 5)

Seeing a very missed friend and a free haircut

'I am full of miseries; however, I hope to save my soul: I hope it of the infinite power and goodness of God; I hope it through the Passion and death of Jesus; I hope it by the intercession of the Mother of Sorrows; yes, I hope to go to heaven.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 75 (Year 5)

Making it through the bulk of a long work day and the help of a co-worker

'We protest before heaven and earth that our glory is in the cross, that it is the source of all our blessings, our every hope, and that it is that which has crowned every saint.'

St. John Chrysostom

Finding Joy in the day, Day 70 (Year 5)

A massage later today

'In every occupation obedience will help you to advance with increasing merit in the way of perfection, like those who are navigating: for even when resting they are still sailing onward.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Finding Joy in the day, Day 74 (Year 5)

My mom who couldn't be any better for me than she is, as it is I am astounded by her mercy and gracious love and comfort- I love you Momma Happy Mother's Day

If you ever feel distressed during your day, call upon Our Lady. Just say this simple prayer, “Mary, mother of jesus, please be a mother to me now.” I must admit, this prayer has never failed me. – Mother Teresa

Finding Joy in the day, Day 73 (Year 5)

Talking to my dad on his Birthday- Happy Birthday daddio

'He shall be the greatest who will make himself the least. He that humbles himself the most profoundly shall be the most exalted; he shall have, the more easily, access to that wine-cellar, that royal hall, whence opens that secret sanctuary in which the soul communes face to face with her divine Spouse.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 72 (Year 5)

Finishing a good book

'If God wishes to despoil us, let us allow Him to do so. Let us not neglect the practice of virtues, let us not neglect the holy presence of God, let us not neglect the remembrance of the Passion of our dear Jesus; but in meditation we must follow His inspirations, not our own impulses. There are some rules, but God is the Master.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 71 (Year 5)

A new connection

'Have you ever noticed rocks in the sea, beaten by the tempest? A furious wave dashes against the rock, another and yet another does likewise, yet the rock is unmoved. But look at it after the storm has subsided, and you will see that the flood has but served to wash and purify it of the defilement it had contracted during the calm.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 69 (Year 5)

Hopefully getting my bluetooth fixed

Finding Joy in the day, Day 68 (Year 5)

Getting a lot of errands run

'Pleasures do not last but pain is not permanent either.'

St. Basil the Great

Finding Joy in the day, Day 67 (Year 5)

Another day to sleep in

'As a mother feels no disgust in dressing the sores of her child, so Mary, the heavenly infirmarian, never refuses to care for sinners who have recourse to her.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 66 (Year 5)

A day to finally sleep in

Finding Joy in the day, Day 65 (Year 5)

Finally sitting in bed

'I resolve to ask myself, whenever I have to encounter crosses of suffering, "Conrad, why have you come here?"'

St. Conrad of Parzham, resolutions in the novitiate

Finding Joy in the day, Day 64 (Year 5)

$5 eyebrow wax

Finding Joy in the day, Day 63 (Year 5)

Painting my own toes purple

'My sweet Jesus, give me a great love for the cross, and if I do not die at the hands of others as you did, may I die by the intensity of my love.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

'Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.'

St. Richard of Chichester

Finding Joy in the day, Day 62 (Year 5)

An easy start to tonight hoping the rest is easy too

Finding Joy in the day, Day 61 (Year 5)

Fun mail

'If you persevere until death in true devotion to Mary, your salvation is certain.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 60 (Year 5)

Getting groceries

'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 59 (Year 5)

Getting to spend a night at my parents with my family

Finding Joy in the day, Day 58 (Year 5)

A good retreat

'Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you.'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 57 (Year 5)

A really good confession

"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
--St. Augustine


Jesus, I trust in you

Finding Joy in the day, Day 56 (Year 5)

Being around family and friends

"Healing is an essential dimension of the apostolic mission and of Christianity. When understood at a sufficiently deep level, the expresses the entire content of redemption."
Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth

Finding Joy in the day, Day 55 (Year 5)

Getting grocery shopping done

'The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.'

Bl. Alan de la Roche

Finding Joy in the day, Day 54 (Year 5)

2 jobs in one day done and the third got off the hook for today

Finding Joy in the day, Day 53 (Year 5)

Getting a teeth cleaning

Finding Joy in the day, Day 52 (Year 5)

Getting a new shower caddy

'Each of our days is marked with the protection of Mary, who is exceedingly anxious to be our Mother, when we desire to be her children.'

St. Vincent de Paul

Finding Joy in the day, Day 51 (Year 5)

Getting through two long nights

'Our Lord is satisfied with our good will. I hope that His Heart will never refuse you the graces necessary to fulfill entirely all that He requires of you.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 50 (Year 5)

Getting some relieving clarification

Instaurare omnia in Christo

Finding Joy in the day, Day 49 (Year 5)

Things going smooth this morning 

Like Our Lady, remain at the Cross of Jesus, and you will never be deprived of comfort. - St Pio

Finding Joy in the day, Day 48 (Year 5)

Getting one nights training in

Finding Joy in the day, Day 47 (Year 5)

Seeing a bald eagle standing on the side of the road

Finding Joy in the day, Day 46 (Year 5)

Almost finished with a audio trilogy

'What does it matter in the light of eternity?'

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 45 (Year 5)

Getting everything put in the car

'My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for you are my strength. . . Into your hands, Lord I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

Finding Joy in the day, Day 44 (Year 5)

Face timing with my sis and nephew

Finding Joy in the day, Day 43 (Year 5)

Getting home in a snow storm

'You will find the name of Jesus engraven on the countenances of the poor.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 42 (Year 5)

Good people in my life

Finding Joy in the day, Day 41 (Year 5)

Support from those around me

'We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 40 (Year 5)

The gift to be alive

'Lord! what do I desire or what can I desire but Thee?'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Lord help me to truly desire and pray this prayer!!!!!! I want to desire you alone that yo alone suffice, yet I am so drawn to things of this world for comfort instead, purify my heart and change me, make me like you! Amen

Finding Joy in the day, Day 39 (Year 5)

Help from my Bro in Law

'The two principal dispositions which we should bring to Holy Communion are detachment from creatures, and the desire to receive Our Lord with a view to loving Him more in the future.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Finding Joy in the day, Day 38 (Year 5)

My dad calling me

'The Spirit of God does all things in peace. Let us have recourse to God with love and confidence, and He will receive us into the arms of His Mercy.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 37 (Year 5)

Getting a one night babysitting job

'Do you represent in yourself His look, his gait, and modesty? Do you take your food, sleep, receive mortifications and injuries as He would? Do you in the same manner seek the honour and glory of His Eternal Father?'

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

Finding Joy in the day, Day 36 (Year 5)

Getting a gas card

'To suffer and not to suffer for God is torment.'

St. Gerard Majella

Finding Joy in the day, Day 35 (Year 5)

Getting a new flavor shot in my coffee

As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.
St. Madeline Sophie Barat

Finding Joy in the day, Day 34 (Year 5)

Getting some soothing appointments today

Finding Joy in the day, Day 33 (Year 5)

Getting home safe with bad roads

Finding Joy in the day, Day 32 (Year 5)

Taking it as it came

"Faith in the Resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being; the cry for unending life which is a part of the person is indeed answered."( Pope Benedict XVI,  Benedictus, 128)

Finding Joy in the day, Day 31 (Year 5)

Being alive and a help from my friend

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song." - Pope John Paul II 

Finding Joy in the day, Day 30 (Year 5)

Getting some prep done

The Cross is the word through which God has responded to evil in the world. Sometimes it may seem as though God does not react to evil, as if he is silent. And yet, God has spoken, he has replied, and his answer is the Cross of Christ: a word which is love, mercy, forgiveness. It is also reveals a judgment, namely that God, in judging us, loves us. Remember this: God, in judging us, loves us. If I embrace his love then I am saved, if I refuse it, then I am condemned, not by him, but my own self, because God never condemns, he only loves and saves. – Pope Francis

Finding Joy in the day, Day 29 (Year 5)

Talking to momma on the phone

“We adore you and we bless you, Lord Jesus Christ, here and in all the churches which are in the whole world, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.” – Stations of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 28 (Year 5)

Ironing some things out possibly

We give glory to You, Lord, who raised up Your cross to span the jaws of death like a bridge by which souls might pass from the region of the dead to the land of the living. We give glory to You who put on the body of a single mortal man and made it the source of life for every other mortal man. – St. Ephrem of Edessa

Finding Joy in the day, Day 27 (Year 5)

Finishing an audio book

"I can't go on. I'll go on." Samuel Beckett

Finding Joy in the day, Day 23 (Year 5)

Having an ok night not as bad as I thought

Finding Joy in the day, Day 26 (Year 5)

Caribou yum

Finding Joy in the day, Day 25 (Year 5)

Caribou 3 days in a row, yum

Finding Joy in the day, Day 22 (Year 5)

A last minute babysitting job

Jesus help me be so Humble and not materialistic, Please strengthen my will and do to carry it out, Have mercy on me

Finding Joy in the day, Day 24 (Year 5)

Sunshine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 21 (Year 5)

Confession and prophetic prayers

Finding Joy in the day, Day 20 (Year 5)

Having a nice walk in the mall

Finding Joy in the day, Day 19 (Year 5)

Buying myself a coffee and a soda-- never treat myself

Finding Joy in the day, Day 18 (Year 5)

Groupon pedicure really cheap

Finding Joy in the day, Day 17 (Year 5)

Getting to make my granola again

Finding Joy in the day, Day 16 (Year 5)

Spending the afternoon with my 20 year long friend

Finding Joy in the day, Day 15 (Year 5)

Spending the afternoon with a lovely new friend

Finding Joy in the day, Day 14 (Year 5)

Having a lovely time with a newer friend
Seeing a beautiful picture of my new nephew

Finding Joy in the day, Day 13 (Year 5)

Sun and decent temps
Seeing my very special friend

Finding Joy in the day, Day 12 (Year 5)

Finally getting an oil change

Finding Joy in the day, Day 11 (Year 5)

Chiro and Acupuncture in one day