Holiness

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “If there was nothing but the desire to love God in a soul, everything is present already; God Himself is there, because God is not, nor can…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love *Jan. 4 – “ is everything for us: it is the honey…which must sweeten all our weaknesses, all our feelings sufferings and actions. My God, how happy…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “God commands us to love Him not as much and as He deserves, because He knows our limitations and therefore doesn’t ask us to do what we…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “Let us practice well holy resignation and pure love of God, which is never practiced so well as when amidst contradictions and afflictions, because even children know…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “God can reject everything in a creature conceived in sin and who bears the indelible mark inherited by Adam; but He absolutely cannot reject the sincere desire…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “Say to Jesus as St. Augustine always used to say: ‘Give what You command, and command what You want’. Do You want a greater love from me,…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “I feel a most strong desire, often times without my thinking to procure it, of spending all of the moments of my life in loving the Lord.…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “I am devoured by the love of God and the love of my neighbor. For me, God is always fixed in my mind and stamped in my…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “I desire nothing else than to either die or to love God: either death or love, as life without love is worse than death; for me, it…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “I desire death only to unite myself with indissoluble bonds to the heavenly Spouse. I even desire life, so as to suffer more, Jesus having made me…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “Considering the love of Jesus, on the one hand, my ingratitude; on the other, I would like to say to Jesus that if I cannot love Him,…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “That which afflicts me the most is that I repay so much of Jesus’ love with so much ingratitude…He always wants the best for me and He…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “Jesus tells me that in love it is He who pleases me; in sufferings, instead, it is I who please Him. Now, to desire health would be…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “The relief that one gives to Jesus is incomprehensible, not only in compassionating Him in His sufferings, but when He finds a soul who, for love of…

Ave Maria!-- January's Theme: Divine Love “When Jesus wants to let me know that He loves me, He lets me delight in a taste of His wounds, thorns, anguishes…of His Passion. When He…