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