Finding Joy in the day, Day 291 (Year 5)

A new white snowfall

'My divine Savior has given to understand that those who work for the salvation of souls will have a gift of touching the most hardened hearts, and will labor with marvelous success, if they themselves are penetrated with a tender devotion to His Divine Heart.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 290 (Year 5)

Feast of the Holy Family to remind me to be grateful for my family

'Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 289 (Year 5)

The sun is out

'You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 288 (Year 5)

Snowflakes instead of rain

'My sweet Jesus, give me a great love for the cross, and if I do not die at the hands of others as you did, may I die by the intensity of my love.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

My Jesus, help my love to be intense like St. Bernadette

Finding Joy in the day, Day 287 (Year 5)

Getting my own copy of the book I am reading

'The divine Heart of Jesus must be so entirely substituted for our own, that He alone may live and act in us and for us; His Will must so annihilate ours that it may have absolute freedom to act without any resistance on our part; in fact, His affections, thoughts and desires must take the place of ours: thus He will love Himself with His own love in us and for us.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 286 (Year 5)

Fun gifts

'I have my weaknesses also, but I rejoice in them...It's so good to feel that one is weak and little.'

St. Therese of Lisieux

Finding Joy in the day, Day 285 (Year 5)

Funny family stories

'Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them.'

St. Peter of Alcantara

Finding Joy in the day, Day 284 (Year 4)

A sunny Christmas Eve

'We must not serve God for the sake of His consolations, but because He is worthy of being served.'

St. Paul of the Cross

 'When tribulations, infirmities, and contradictions come, we must not run away in a fright, but vanquish them like men.'

St. Philip Neri

Finding Joy in the day, Day 283 (Year 5)

Getting some errands done without having to wait too long in line

'Lord, grant that I may know Thee, and that I may know myself.'

St. Augustine

Finding Joy in the day, Day 282 (Year 5)

Seeing my sister and nephews

'We protest before heaven and earth that our glory is in the cross, that it is the source of all our blessings, our every hope, and that it is that which has crowned every saint.'

St. John Chrysostom

Finding Joy in the day, Day 281 (Year 5)

Time with a friend

'We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.'

Bl. Peter Julian Eymard

Finding Joy in the day, Day 280 (Year 5)

At least its not raining

'You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.'

The Blessed Virgin, to Bl. Alan de la Roche

Finding Joy in the day, Day 279 (Year 5)

Reading in my book

'If, then, you are really surrendering yourselves to God, as you say, cease to be anxious for yourselves, for He bears your anxiety, and will bear it always.'

St. Teresa of Jesus

Finding Joy in the day, Day 278 (Year 5)

A warm fire and a cozy room to sleep in

'The more the intellect is purified, the more the soul is granted spiritual knowledge of divine principles.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 277 (Year 5)

A day that is not too cold

‘I ought to burn of love for God out of gratitude for the kindness that He has shown me.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 276 (Year 5) Guadete Sunday 2018 "Come Lord Jesus"

Seeing a movie with my dad

'As by nature the soul gives life to the body, so virtue and spiritual knowledge give life to the soul.'

St. Thalassios the Libyan

Finding Joy in the day, Day 275 (Year 5)

Going to Mass and confession

'I hope all from the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ Who is so filled with love for you that, cost what it may, He wills you should become a saint.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to her brother a priest

Finding Joy in the day, Day 274 (Year 5) Feast of St. John of the Cross

Having a good prayer session

‘I ought to burn of love for God out of gratitude for the kindness that He has shown me.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 273 (Year 5) Feast of St. Lucy 2018

Getting some packages out in the mail

'Hope has been the sole companion of my life, the greatest aid in doubts, the strongest assistance in my weakness; hope, but not the hope in men, such as is thought to bring greater happiness and instead brings greater disaster, but hope in Christ, supported by the celestial promise that He will strengthen the weakest of men with a greatness of soul and divine help.'

Pope St. Pius X

Finding Joy in the day, Day 272 (Year 5) Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Getting some winter items

'Let all our actions be directed to the end that God may be glorified in all things.'

St. Benedict

Finding Joy in the day, Day 271 (Year 5)

Seeing my grandma

'The paralytic let down through the roof (cf. Mark 2:4) signifies a sinner reproved in God's name by the faithful and receiving forgiveness because of their faith.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

Finding Joy in the day, Day 270 (Year 5)

Getting out in the morning

'There is not a finer thing on earth, than to make a virtue of necessity.'

St. Philip Neri

'By the cross God perfects the loving soul that offers Him a fervent and generous heart.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 269 (Year 5)

Babies sucking on thumbs

'Leave your soul free to take her flight to the Sovereign Good as God shall guide her.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 268 (Year 5)

Getting ipad worked out

'How beautiful to look upon is the starry firmament! Yet it is only the portal of the blessed country where I hope to go one day.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 267 (Year 5)

Getting some early morning errands run

'When I go to the chapel, I put myself before the good God and say to Him, "Lord, here I am, give me what You wish." If He gives me something, I am happy and I thank Him. If He gives me nothing, I thank Him still, because I do not deserve anything more. Then I tell Him all that comes into my mind. I tell Him my sorrows and my joys - and I listen.'

St. Catherine Laboure

Finding Joy in the day, Day 266 (Year 5) St. Nicholas Day, 2018

A fun St. Nick's morning

'O sweet submission of Jesus, my sovereign God!'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 265 (Year 5)

Getting some pampering

'I have chosen thy soul to be a paradise of rest to Me on earth, and thy heart shall be a throne of delight for My divine love.'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

'We must cover the failings of our neighbor with the mantle of charity, attributing them to ignorance or inadvertence.'

St. Paul of the Cross

Finding Joy in the day, Day 264 (Year 5)

Getting prayed with

'He is the Source of all blessings, and will bestow them wherever the picture of His divine Heart is placed and honored.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Finding Joy in the day, Day 263 (Year 5)

Getting some errands done

'Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.'

Pope Pius IX

Hail Mary full of Grace, pray for us sinners!

Finding Joy in the day, Day 262 (Year 5)

Fresh pretty snow, signifies a new clean slate

'Where shalt thou rejoice? Upon the Cross, with the Spotless Lamb, seeking His honour and the salvation of souls, through continual, humble prayer. Now herein is all our perfection.'

St. Catherine of Siena

'What have I done for Christ? What am I doing for Christ? What ought I to do for Christ, my Lord and Saviour?'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Help me Lord to live for you, to live for the Christ-child and not for myself. Strengthen and restore my will to align and act according to yours.

Finding Joy in the day, Day 261 (Year 5) First Sunday in Advent 2018

Seeing someone special at church

'In order to be perfect, we must not only obey and honour our superiors; we must honour our equals and inferiors also.'

St. Philip Neri

Jesus help me to honor all those who cross my path and to never act superior as I do in my human flesh all to often! St. Philip Neri, pray for me!