Reflection: Don't you have by your side booklets on which you enter your account each day? In the same way, you must make an accounting every day for your conscience.
- St. John Chrysostom
Prayer: God of forgiveness, help me to make a daily examination of conscience. Teach me how to pinpoint faults, ask Your forgiveness for them, and resolve to do better in the future.
Reflection: Where Peter is, there is the Church. Where the Church is, there is Jesus Christ. Where Jesus Christ is, there is eternal salvation.
- St. Ambrose
Prayer: Lord Jesus, You left us Your Church and You Vicar the Pope to insure our contact with You. Let me always cling to Your Church and follow her teachings with all my heart.
Reflection: Imitate Jesus, Who is sovereignly perfect and sovereignly holy. Then you will never run the danger of losing your way.
- St. John of the Cross
Prayer: Heavenly Father, enable me to put on the attitude of Your Son Jesus. Grant that I may be His follower in all things on earth so that I may follow Him to heaven.
From: Every Day Is A Gift (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)
Reflection: The true secret of love consists in this: We must forget self like St. John the Baptist and exalt and glorify the Lord Jesus.
- St. Peter Eymard
Prayer: Almighty God, help me to put my self-interests in the background. Let me seek Your interests and do everything for the honor and glory of Your Son Jesus.
Reflection: Goodwill in the soul is the source of all good things and the mother of all virtues. Those who possess it hold in their hand--without fear of losing it--all that is necessary to lead a good life.
- St. Albert the Great
Prayer: Heavenly Father, grant me the true spirit of goodwill toward all. Let me be ever ready to carry out Your will and to come to the aid of all I encounter on this earthly pilgrimage.
Reflection: Everything on this earth passes away--all too quickly. But eternity will never pass away.
- St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Prayer: Ever-living God, let me not get over caught up in the day-to-day press of earthly affairs. Help me to keep my eyes fixed on Your eternal truths and consider all things in the light of eternity.
Reflection: What a thrill will be yours on the last day when you hear the words of those whom you have led to heaven almost by the hand: "These people are servantgs of the great God who have proclaimed the ways of salvation to us!"
- St. John Baptist de la Salle
Prayer: Almighty God, make me a willing messenger of Your Good News of Salvation to those who do not know You. Let me be a messenger through prayer as well as through words and actions.
