Today’s Reflection

St. Paul had a great and broad vision; he saw God’s plan from its beginning to its fulfillment. In one of his resounding sentences he wrote:But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law. In the same vein, Paul assures us that Christ died…

In all trouble, you should seek God. . . .God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this incident or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find…

Being holy means living exactly as our Father in heaven wants us to live. You will say that it is difficult. It is. The ideal is a very high one. And yet it is also easy. It is within our reach. When a person becomes ill, there may be no appropriate medicine. But in supernatural…

Keep a constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Jesus. Worries carry responsibilities that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes. – Corrie Ten Boom

You who are beyond time, Lord, you know what you are doing. You make no mistakes in your distribution of time to men. . .But we must not lose time, waste time, or kill time, for time is a gift that you give us. . .The time that you give me, the years of my…

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. – St. Teresa of Avila  

I have tried to live the gospel and to follow the monastic life each day. I have tried to spend time with God in thought and prayer and reading. God and I have been friends, I might even say, lovers. We live together. My life is in him and he is in my life. It…

Though Christ called himself “the way,” in another sense he’s our end, our destination. Don’t settle down somewhere on the way so that you never come to the end. Whatever else you come to on life’s journey, pass on by it, until you come to the end, Christ himself. Some seek money. Don’t let it…

We become transfigured by becoming little, humble, poor, dependent, powerless. How do we empty ourselves? How do we become little? By accepting all the sufferings that God permits to come into our lives. By seeking to serve others rather than to be served. By taking the last place. By never seeking recognition or applause.By making…

To make possible true inner silence, practice silence of the eyes – by seeking always the beauty and goodness of God everywhere, closing them to the faults of others and to all that is sinful and disturbing to the soul; silence of the ears – by listening always to the voice of God and to…