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October 15 Vigil of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi Moses was rescued from the river, and he had to flee from Pharaoh, that is to say, he was poor. The Lord gave him nothing other than a staff; no riches, just a staff with which to make his way in the desert. Later,…

I want to move courageously toward holiness. To be silent, to forget myself; to think of others and dedicate myself to them; to care for and accomplish nothing but God’s will; to be an apostle of the Sacred  Heart, and an adoring and atoning person; my eyes and my heart fixed on the tabernacle and…

October 1 The Feast Day of St. Therese of Lisieux I will try to find a new way to heaven, quite short and direct. We live in an age of inventions. We need no longer climb laboriously up flights of stairs; in well-to-do houses there are lifts. And I was determined to find a lift…

One doesn’t need to be unhappy when life takes this or that joy away that one thought was indispensable. One doesn’t have to despair when this or that success fails to occur or when our plans are not realized. We become rich through giving, fulfilled through renunciation, joyous through sacrifice, loved through loving. When we…

St. Augustine. . . describes very beautifully the intimate relationship between prayer and hope. He defines prayer as an exercise of desire. Man was created for greatness, for God himself; he was created to be filled by God. But his heart is too small for the greatness to which it is destined. It must be…

This very day, this moment in which our heart is crushed by weariness and our strength seems to have ebbed away, precisely now in the middle of all this trouble, we pray for the healing peace of God. . . But the waters of healing surge up within us.  God within us is like a…

I will live in the present moment and fill it with love. A straight line is made of millions of little points, one united with the other. My life, too, is made of millions of seconds and minutes united one with the other. If I arrange every single point perfectly, the line will be straight.…

If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight, will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God … More than all things, love silence. It is fruitful in a way that words cannot describe. In the beginning we have…

When I consider suffering, I do so as someone who is physically challenged. Cerebral palsy has forced me to use a wheelchair all my life. For most of my life, I have believed that the suffering we bear in life is a result of the human tendency to sin. But then I looked to Mary,…