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