I am begging you, since it is so delightful, never let any trouble or temptation the devil might give you make you look back; never let your soul give in to sadness or discouragement, for the devil would like nothing better. He likes to give us lots of annoyances and different sorts of struggles, and […]

Let us purify ourselves, brethren, through the martyrs; or rather, through him through whom they too were purified in blood and truth. Let us free ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit. Let us wash; let us become clean; you, let us present our very bodies and souls as a living sacrifice, holy and […]

With voices in harmony and hearts in concord we have begged the Lord for our own hearts by saying, Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew an upright spirit in me (Psalm 51:12)… It’s a psalm of someone repenting, someone wishing to retrieve the hope he had lost, lying where he had […]

“Forgiveness does not mean that God says to me: Your evil deed shall be undone. It was done and remains done. Nor does it mean that he says: It was not so bad. It was bad – I know it and God knows it. And again it does not mean that God is willing to […]

“O the happiness of the heavenly alleluia, sung in security, in fear of no adversity! We shall have no enemies in heaven, we shall never lose a friend. God’s praises are sung both there and here, but here they are sung in anxiety, there, in security; here they are sung by those destined to die, […]

“Always begin all your prayers with an act of the presence of God because, sometimes, for want of doing so, an action will cease to be pleasing to him. Just consider … that although we do not yet see God, faith teaches us that his holy presence is everywhere, and this is one of the […]

“May God make you holy,… becoming ever more your companion, your living light, and a guide that you may always hear and follow. Let us go wherever he leads us: in darkness or light, to the splendor of Tabor or the foot of the cross. It makes no difference as long as he is with […]