October 10, 2015
“The goal of the virtuous life is blessedness.… This is the summation and object of everything conceived in relation to the good…Likeness to God, therefore, is a definition of...
October 9, 2015
“The true beginning of prayer is warmth of the heart, which scorches the passions and fills the soul with joy and gladness, strengthening the heart with an unshakable love...
Saturday, October 10
LUKE 4 38 Now He arose from the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. But Simon’s wife’s mother was sick with a high fever, and they made request of Him concerning...
Friday, October 9
LUKE 4 23 He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in Your...
October 7, 2015
“If then thy sin is so heavy that by thy penitential tears thou canst not thyself wash it out, let the mother Church weep for thee, the multitude standing...
Thursday, October 8
LUKE 4 14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. 15 And He taught in their...
October 7, 2015
“Plainly instructing us, that we ought never to account ourselves sufficiently righteous, but always desire a daily increase in righteousness, to the perfect fulness of which the Psalmist shews...
Wednesday, October 7
LUKE 4 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 being tempted for forty days by...
October 6, 2015
“Again come, that fixing our mind intently upon the Evangelic Scriptures, we may behold the beauty of the truth. Come let us direct the penetrating and accurate eyes of the...
Tuesday, October 6
Luke 3: 12 Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”13 And he said to them, “Collect no more than what is appointed...