Holiness

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “Try, also, to eradicate all concern for taking the first place, because honor is more greatly possessed when one despises it; it greatly disturbs the heart and this…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “Oh! … If we were left to ourselves we should always be falling and never remain on our feet. Humble yourself, then, at the delightful thought that you…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “To be ashamed of yourself at the sight of so many souls who love God is a good sign. However, I am warning you to humble yourself, yes,…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “…the knowledge of your interior unworthiness and deformity is a most pure divine light by which your condition and ability to commit any sin whatsoever, without the help…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “Always be vigilant and do not raise yourself up, esteeming yourself to be good for something, nor above the others, by believing yourself to be better or at…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “You must be submissive,and in order to achieve this, consider how the Son of God abased Himself in His Incarnation and in His mortal life, especially in His…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “Oh! Let us prostrate ourselves before the nativity scene with the great St. Jerome, the saint inflamed with love for Baby Jesus; let us offer Him all our…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “How is it possible to resist loving the Child Jesus with ever new ardor?! Oh! Let us draw close to the Child Jesus with a heart immaculate, free…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “At the birth of Our Lord, the shepherds heard the divine and angelic singing of the heavenly spirits. Scripture tells us this, but it does not say that…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “For forty centuries the Divine Child was expected; with sighs the ancient Fathers invoked the coming; the sacred writers clearly prophesized the place and the event of His…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “Which and how many, O Christians, are the lessons that come from the grotto of Bethlehem! Oh! How must the heart feel itself inflamed with love for Him…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “Poverty, humility, degradation, contempt surround the Word made flesh. But from the darkness in which this Word made flesh is enveloped we understand one thing, we hear a…

Ave Maria!-- December's Theme: Humility “The heavenly Child suffers and cries in the crib to suffering amiable, meritorious and sought for by us. He lacks everything so that we may learn from Him…