When I say "Hail Mary", the Heavens bow down, the angels rejoice, the earth jubilates, hell trembles, and the devils take flight.
-St. Francis of Assisi
April 2
The Lord God helps me, so I will not be ashamed. I will be determined, and I know I will not be disgraced.
-Isaiah 50:7
April 3
The Lord shows his true love every day. At night, I have a song, and I pray to my living God.
-Psalm 42:8
April 4
The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about an everlasting peace on earth.
-Mother Teresa
April 5
So these three continue forever: Faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love.
1 Cor 13:13
April 6
...you shall be carried at the breasts, and upon the knees they shall caress you. As one whom the mother caresseth so I will comfort you.
-Isaiah 66:12-13
April 7
Without love, deeds even the most brilliant count as nothing.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
April 8
Today, as God's majesty swept over me, my soul understood that the Lord, so very great though He is, delights in humble souls. The more a soul humbles itself, the greater the kindness with which the Lord approaches it. Uniting Himself closely with it, He raises it to His very throne. Happy is the soul whom the Lord Himself defends. I have come to know that only love is of any value; love is greatness; nothing, no works can compare with a singe act of Divine Love of God.
-St. Faustina
April 9
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
-Henry Clay
April 10
The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a soul; one ray from His heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
April 11
If obedience does not give you peace, it is because you are proud.
-Bl. Josemaria Escriva
April 12
Silently , one by one, in the infinite meadows of Heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the Angels.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
April 13
Dear Jesus, help me to spread Thy fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Thy spirit and love. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of Thine. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Thy presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus. Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.
-Mother Teresa
April 14
Love alone have I given to the Good God; with love he will repay me.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
April 15
When an evil thought is presented to the mind, we must endeavor to turn our thoughts to God, or to something indifferent. But the best rule, is to invoke the names of Jesus and Mary and to continue to invoke them until the temptation ceases.
-St. Alphonsus de Liguori
April 16
Love of neighbor, detachment & humility. Together they form a foundation of prayer.
-St. Teresa of Avila
April 17
Just close your eyes and open your heart,
And feel your worries and cares depart,
Just yield yourself to the Father above,
And let Him hold you secure in His love.
-Helen Steiner Rice
April 18
I wonder what the world would be like if there were not innocent people making reparation for us all? Today the Passion of Christ is being relived in the lives of those who suffer. To accept that suffering is a gift of God. Suffering is not a punishment. Jesus does not punish. Suffering is a sign--a sign that we have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss us, show us that he is in love with us by giving us an opportunity to share in his Passion. Suffering is not a punishment, nor a fruit of sin; it is a gift of God. He allows us to share in his suffering and to make up for the sins of the world.
-Mother Teresa
April 19
I beseech His Divine Majesty to preserve you, to enable you as a beloved and holy one of His own to grow more and more in His Love.
-Bl. Padre Pio
April 20
Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in Glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul. I understand then why he lets us suffer.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
April 21
Have mercy, O Lord, on my children, in my children. Call to mind your childhood. You who were a child. Let them that are like your childhood be saved by your grace.
-Ephrem
April 22
It takes two to speak the truth-one to speak and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
April 23
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it is only a choice of attitude.
-Judith M. Knowlton
April 24
Give thanks to the Lord because he is good. His love continues forever.
-Psalm 1 36:1
April 25
There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.
-Willa Cather
April 26
Lord, heal me, and I will truly be healed. Save me, and I will truly be saved. You are the one I praise.
-Jeremiah 17:14
April 27
Though now for a little while, you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials; these have come so that your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
-1 Peter 1:6-7 NIV
April 28
Run from places of sin as from the plague.
-St. John Climacus
April 29
How happy I am to see myself imperfect and be in need of God's mercy.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
April 30
God once said, "Let the light shine out of the darkness!" This is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts by letting us know the Glory of God that is in the face of Christ. We have troubles all around us, but we are not defeated. We do not know what to do, but we do not give up on the hope of living. We are persecuted, but God does not leave us. We are hurt sometimes, but we are not destroyed.
Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and, trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's house. I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you...I will come back and take you with me so that you may be where I am going.
