25th December - The Nativity of the Lord
Dearly beloved, today our Savior is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should have no place on the birthday of life.
category: reflections
22nd December - St. Chaeromon
We cannot fully acquire the virtue of purity unless we have first acquired true humility of heart - St. Chaeromon
20th December – St. Dominic de Silos
(Be) the hammer, not the anvil against temptation…
19th December – St. Pope Anastasius I
If Origen has put forth any other writings, you are to know that they and their author are alike condemned by me. The Lord have you in safe keeping, my lord and brother deservedly held in honour - St. Pope Anastasius I
18 December - St. Rufus & Zosimus
I am God's wheat, ground by the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found pure bread - St. Ignatius of Antioch
17th December - St. Jose Manyanet i Vives
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you - St. Jose Manyanet y Vives
16th December - Blessed Clemente Marchisio
After five minutes with a living faith before Jesus Sacrament, I feel fully revived….
13th December – St. Lucy
Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.
12th December – The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
I am truly your merciful Mother, yours and all the people who live united in this land and of all the other people of different ancestries, my lovers, who love me, those who seek me, those who trust in me.
11th December – St. Pope Damasus I
He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth….
10th December – Our Lady of Loreto
In Loreto I am especially indebted to Our Lady.
9th December – St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
I am a nobody, I am a small rope, a tiny ladder, the tail end, a leaf.
8th December - The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin
Truly the Lord is with you, to whom the Lord granted that all nature should owe as much to you as to himself.
6th December - St. Nicholas
Children, I beseech you to correct your hearts and thoughts, so that you may be pleasing to God.
5th December – Blessed Philip Rinaldi
What must you do to have life? Before all else, the first thing you have to do is pray for courage every day to carry the cross the Lord has assigned you.