Reflection: Every day, look into the spotless mirror that is Jesus Christ, and study well your reflection. In that way, you may adorn yourself, mind and body, with every virtue.
- St. Clare of Assisi
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to dwell often on the manner in which I am following You. Let me strive each day to become more and more like You in all things.
Reflection: The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They become like so many powerhouses beaming grace and love around them.
- St. Basil
Prayer: Heavenly Father, let me be ever ready to cooperate with the graces given by Your indwelling Spirit. Grant that I may bring forth the fruits You desire.
Reflection: A soul is a great treasure and a rich deposit. For the eternal Wisdom, Who cannot be deceived, regarded it as more precious than His own Blood.
- St. Bernard
Prayer: Heavenly Father, let me never forget the incomparable value of my immortal soul. Help me to be willing to die rather than risk doing anything to lose that soul.
Reflection: The value and the cost of grace is its interior unction which recollects us in God. An interior grace is worth more than a thousand external graces. Our virtues and our devotion have life only through the recollection that animates them and unites them to God.
- St. Peter Eymard
Prayer: Father of all gifts, pour down on me Your inner grace and make me truly recollected in You. May all my outward activities be the result of Your grace and obtain more grace for me.
Reflection: The salvation of the whol world began with the "Hail Mary." Hence, the salvation of each person is also attached to this prayer.
- St. Louis Grignion de Montfort
Prayer: Lord Jesus, let the great prayer to You holy Mother be on my lips morning, noon and night. Enable me to say it especially at the hour of my death--for she will ensure my salvation.
Reflection: Martyrdom is as nothing in comparison with the Mass. Martyrdom is the sacrifice that human beings make of their lives to God. But the Mass is the sacrifice that God makes, on behalf of people, of His Body and Blood.
- St. John Vianney
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to realize that the Mass is the greatest sign of Your bound-less love for me. At every Mass, let me thus offer to You my whole self, with all its joys and sorrows, successes and failures.
Reflection: Friendship constitutes a country for those in exile, a fortune for the poor, a remedy for the sick, and a life for the dead. It provides pleasure for those who are well, strength for the weak, and a reward for the strong.
- St. Augustine
Prayer: Loving Father, grant me the great grace to form true Christian friendships. May my friends and I help one another to lead good lives and attain the happiness of those who serve You.
