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