15th May – St. Isidore the Farmer
Labor with your hands, but lift your heart to heaven.
Labor with your hands, but lift your heart to heaven.
As to the soul, we must develop her power by faith and knowledge.
I have come, to warn the faithful, to amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins.
We have learned from our Master to prefer death to infidelity.
Charity is the richest alms we can give.
Lord God, how obliged to you I am! Thank you, Lord God, and forgive me, Lord God.
Let us pray, and God will do the rest.
Without the struggle of afflictions, it is impossible to reach the height of grace.
I need nothing in this world in order to be happy. I only need to see Jesus in heaven, Whom I now see and adore on the altar with the eyes of faith.
Cast all your cares into the arms of divine Providence.
Even if you threaten me with death, I will never betray my Lord and Savior.
Christ was made man that we might be made God.
Joseph’s faith does not falter, he obeys quickly and to the letter - St. Josemaria Escriva
Finally the faithful are to admonished to acquiesce in the simple and absolute will of God.
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.