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