Trust God today and everyday

"O my God, you and you alone are all wise and all knowing! You know, you have determined

everything that will happen to us from first to last. You have ordered things in the wisest way,

and you know what will be my lot year by year until I die. You know how long I have to live.

You know how I shall die. You have precisely ordained everything, sin excepted. Every event

of my life is the best for me that it could be, for it comes from you. You bring me on year by

year, by your wonderful Providence, from youth to age, with the most perfect wisdom, and

with the most perfect love."

— Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Everyday Meditations p. 103

Change yourself...

All the conflicts and contradictions of life must find a resolution in us before we can resolve anything outside ourselves. Only the forgiven can forgive, only the healed can heal, only those who stand daily in need of mercy can offer mercy to others. At first it sounds simplistic and even individualistic, but it is precisely such transformed people who can finally effect profound and long-lasting social change. - Fr. Richard Rohr

Instructions for living

"Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading."

— Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Thirsting for God, p. 56