Today, June 20, is the memorial of Blessed Margaret Ebner. Margaret was born in 1291 in Donauworth, Germany. She came from a wealthy family that ensured she was educated properly at home. Around 1305, she joined the Dominican nuns. She dedicated herself to a life of penance and mortification. Most of her life she suffered …
Jesus said to his disciples:“Stop judging, that you may not be judged.For as you judge, so will you be judged,and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye,but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?How can you say to …
“Let us not always look at the dark night to which St. John introduces us. Light gleams afar and is already breaking through the blackness. With him we chant the words of the Bride: Flores apparuerunt, ‘The flowers are already coming up.’ We cannot always, nay we may even seldom, stay in the contemplation of …
Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God,and he healed those who needed to be cured.As the day was drawing to a close,the Twelve approached him and said,“Dismiss the crowdso that they can go to the surrounding villages and farmsand find lodging and provisions;for we are in a deserted place here.”He said to …
“If anyone still has doubts as to whether the connection which we have traced between all these quotations is correct; whether St. John really saw Our Lady in his mystical ideas as the image of our souls in her most intimate union with God, let him open the book of his poetry in which the …
Today, June 18, is the memorial of Saint Marina. Marina was born between the 5th and 7th centuries in Bithynia. Her devoutly Christian family taught her religious values. After the early death of his wife, Marina’s father Eugenius became a monk. He brought along the little Marina to the monastery. To hide his daughter from …
Jesus said to his disciples:“No one can serve two masters.He will either hate one and love the other,or be devoted to one and despise the other.You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,what you will eat or drink,or about your body, what you will wear.Is not life …
“Let us not forget it. Ever and again St. John returns to the inexhaustible mystery of the Incarnation. “This knowledge,” he says, “is not the least part of the heavenly bliss.” And he quotes God’s own words: “This is the life eternal, to know Thee, the only true God, together with Thy Son, Whom Thou …
Today, June 17, is the memorial of Saint Emilie de Vialar. Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition. In 1797, Emilie was born to an aristocratic family. When Emilie was 15, her mother Antoinette died. She then took over the house until she turned 35. During those times, Emilie nurtured a life …
Jesus said to his disciples:“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.But store up treasures in heaven,where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. “The lamp of the body is …