Saint of the Day
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Prayer is our full treasure. Whoever prays, receives everything. (III, 118)
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Do not omit any prayers, any pious practices, no matter how you feel, even if you are experiencing the greatest aridity or distaste. Anyone who omits them even once, will eventually come to completely neglecting them. (III, 114)
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Remember always that we should never seek our own gratification in spiritual exercises but only God’s glory. (I, 32)
4.
Pay no attention to the difficulties which you experience in prayer and do not shorten your prayers but if possible prolong them. (I, 32)
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We should pray not for our own consolation but to glorify God, and we honor Him with nothing else as much as with suffering, so that the more our prayer seems tiresome, dry, difficult, fraught with temptation, so much the better it is. Remember, my dear, the less there is of our own personal satisfaction in it, so much the more it is pleasing to God. (I, 32)
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You have little time for prayer, you say, but is not your entire life a prayer? Why, you labor to promote God’s glory and to remove offenses against Him. You say you do not like your duties, but for that you have greater merit in performing them. (I, 81)
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Look frequently upon Him who did so much for you and then all that you do will seem as nothing. (I, 81)
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Try to heed the call of Jesus to pray always and never to cease. The Lord gave you the spirit of prayer, so try to maintain it during the day amidst your duties and try to practice constant interior prayer in union with Our Lord. (I, 154)
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Strive for an increasingly more perfect union with Jesus, but not for such which manifests itself in consolations, but in the union of your will with the Will of God. (I, 155)
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Try to have always on your lips the words and in your heart the attitude: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to Your Will, oh my Jesus”. (I, 155)
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If God in His goodness sends you inspirations or enlightenment during prayer or work, do not be proud, do not act superior towards others or think of yourself as a saint, but reflect and believe that God did not do this because of your virtues, work or merits but because of His great goodness. (III, 128)
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Sometimes God allows His chosen ones to suffer many afflictions, not to reject them but to cleanse them of their sins and to increase their merits. Let those, therefore, who want to enjoy peace of heart and who want to receive a crown of glory after death, arm themselves with patience. (III, 129)
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If you have a good thought, do a good deed, or say something that is worthwhile, do not give yourself credit even in the smallest things but attribute it all to God. (III, 128)
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We cannot please God more than when we receive Holy Communion often in the state of grace. Love depends on a frequent union with the Beloved. Besides sacramental communion, it is beneficial to receive spiritual communion several times a day. (III, 112)
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Jesus Christ, Who immensely loves a soul in the state of grace, desires ardently to be united with her. Through Holy Communion Jesus Christ becomes one with our soul, for that reason we cannot do anything more pleasing for Him than to receive Him often. (III, 112)
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When you make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament evoke within yourself feelings of faith, thanksgiving, love, contrition and beg God earnestly for love and perseverance. (III, 112)
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Do not neglect prayer, particularly meditation. I am not sending you any prayers because I would rather that your prayers were spontaneous expression of your own feelings and thoughts and not those of others. (I, 27-28)
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Never omit meditation. Shorten rather the vocal prayers which are not obligatory. (III, 114)
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That day, in which we omit meditation, is a lost day. (III, 118)
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If two or three pray or read, Jesus wants to be the third one. Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in their midst. (III, 124)
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When you experience pain, disappointment, humiliation or some other misfortune, go before the Blessed Sacrament and drink deeply of strength and consolation: If you cannot be there in person, be there in thought and spirit. (III, 112)
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Pray for the souls of the departed and for the conversion of sinners. (III,113)
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“If any among you is sad”, says Saint James, “let him pray.” Follow this advice, my dearest sister, and even though your obligations leave you very little time for prayer, try to profit from every moment. When you are tempted with too much introspection, have recourse to prayer at once. (I, 101)
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Let us support each other with prayer; there let us seek strength and guidance. (I, 114)
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I ardently desire your holiness and I recommend that you remain faithful to prayer and meditation on the Passion of Our Lord which will most quickly restore your tranquility. (I, 159)
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Do not stop praying nor become weary in your practice of spiritual life. (III, 151)
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Offer yourself today to Jesus for whatever He will be pleased to send you. (I, 159)
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Before each activity say: May this be for your glory, O Lord. (III, 113)
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If obedience does not forbid you […] spend an hour and a half in meditation daily . . . but always concluding with a resolution. (I, 161)
30.
I need not tell you how much I love you in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, for you understand that better than I could express it. Let the Heart of Jesus tell you how many graces and blessings I desire for you. He alone knows the secrets and emotions of my heart and He alone can reveal them to you. (I,154)
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