Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
15 September

Psalms 34:4
4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Monday 15-September, 2025

Ephesians 2:1
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Wednesday 17-September, 2025

“Consider that the present day is given you so that during its course you may gain the future day of eternity. Therefore, firmly intend to employ it well, with the very intention of making it the antechamber of eternity.”

St Francis de Sales (Introduction to the Devout Life)

Temptations

5. The more persistent the temptation, the clearer it is that you have not given consent to it. "It is a good sign," says Saint Francis de Sales, "when the tempter makes so much noise and commotion outside of the will, for it shows that he is not within.". An enemy does not besiege a fortress that is already in his power, and the more obstinate the attack, the more certain we may be that our resistance continues.

~ Light and Peace, R.P. Quadrupani, Barnabite (1904), written in 1795.

Sedes Sapientiæ, ora pro nobis.
Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.

Isaiah 11:6-9
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Thursday 18-September, 2025

•”A woman by her very nature is maternal for every woman, whether…. married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother-she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them-for maternity implies suffering which is infinitely more valuable in God's sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon”
-Alice von Hildebrand•

Proverbs 14:29
29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Sunday 21-September, 2025

1 Corinthians 1:28
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

Monday 22-September, 2025