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