You are light in the Lord...The fruit of light is every kind of goodness.Reflection: Goodness has the same relationship to the human heart that a magnet has to iron. Goodness has the power to attract the heart.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Prayer: God of light, let my heart be ever attracted to goodness rather than to evil. Help me to live as a child of light, devoted to You every day of my life.
[From: Every Day Is A Gift (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)]
The love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.
- Romans 5:5
Reflection: One and the same love embraces both God and neighbor. This love is the Holy Spirit, Who is Divine.
- Saint Anthony of Padua
Prayer: Come, Holy Spirit. Fill the heart of Your faithful one and enkindle in me the fire of Your love. Divine Guest of my soul, abide in me and grant that I may abide in You.
O children, listen to me; ...Hear instruction and be wise.
- Proverbs 8:32-33
Reflection: Let Mary never be far from your lips and from your heart. Following her, you will never lose your way. Praying to her, you will never sink into despair. Contemplating her, you will never go wrong.
- Saint Bernadine of Siena
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to have continual recourse to Your holy Mother. Grant that she may watch over me as she lovingly watched over You in Your childhood at Nazareth.
The Church of the living God [is] the pillar and foundation of the truth.
- 1 Timothy 3:15
Reflection: The Church has the following characteristic qualities. She overcomes when she is attacked. She is understood when she is disputed. And she grows greater when she is abandoned.
- St. Hilary of Poitiers
Prayer: Heavenly Father, let me always cling to Your Church for she is my best contact with You. Grant that I may never depart from this pillar of truth--the prolongation of Your Son Jesus in the world.
What do you possess that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you did not?
- 1 Corinthians 4:7
Reflection: The reason why God is such a great Lover of humility is that He is a great Lover of truth. Humility is in fact truth, while pride is nothing but lying.
- Saint Vincent de Paul
Prayer: God of truth, help me to realize that everything I have is from You. Let me show my gratitude by always using it in accord with Your holy Will.
Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," will enter the Kingdom of Heaven but only the one who does the Will of My Father.
- Matthew 7:21
Reflection: Virtue does not consist in making splendid resolutions. It consists in carrying out those resolutions and producing good fruits.
- St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to put all my good resolutions into effect. Grant that I may always bring forth good fruits from my union with God.
This is how we know we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.
- 1 John 3:20
Reflection: Let nothing disturb you, nothing frigthenyou. Everything passes, but God never changes. Patience obtains everything. Those who possess God lack for nothing. God alone is enough.
- St. Theresa of Avila
Prayer: Heavenly Father, let me remain calm amid all the difficulties of life. Help me to preserve my union with You,which is the one thing necessary in this world.
