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Thursday, July 31, 2025
July 31, 2025
"Perseverance is a great grace. To go on gaining and advancing every day, we must be resolute, and bear and suffer as our blessed forerunners did. Which of them gained heaven without a struggle?" ~ St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Lord, when I am struggling with pain in my life, remind me that I am never left to face it alone.
Quote of the Day
Ask Our Lord for the grace of perfect charity and the spirit of humility that causes us to acknowledge that others are better than we and we are worse than demons (VII:79).
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
July 30, 2025
"Rely upon God, and you will have the fulfillment of whatever your heart desires." ~ St. Vincent de Paul
What is my heart's desire? Sometimes I'm not even sure, but of this I am very sure, God's love for me is unconditional and in surrendering myself to it I know my needs will be satisfied.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
July 29, 2025
"Though truth and sincerity should ever guard our words, yet we should be careful never to offend others." ~ St. Louise de Marillac
Lord, in the name of "sincerity" never let my words injure or embarrass others. Teach me to be sensitive to their feelings and treat them as I would want to be treated.
Monday, July 28, 2025
Quote of the Day
May God be pleased to water these new plants and raise on this foundation the edifice of this good work so that gradually it will be able to supply a large number of good workers for the Church of God, especially for all of Italy (VII:55).
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Sunday, July 27, 2025
July 27, 2025
"It may come to your mind that you have not enough intelligence to conduct so large and difficult a house. To this I shall reply that there will be two of you to do it: Our Lord and yourself, and with him, all is possible." ~ ST. Vincent de Paul
Lord, you have said that your grace is sufficiently given for whatever you ask of us. Knowing that is a comfort to me and I will ask for what i need, in your most powerful name.
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Friday, July 25, 2025
July 25, 2025
"Evenness of temper is a particular virtue, a state which supposes an aggregate of all the virtues, an external manifestation of the peace and beauty of the interior." ~ St. Vincent de Paul
How many occasions for petty aggravation come up during the course of my fast-moving days? When I am aware of this, I will try to pause, take a break and "lighten up." Lord, help me to become patient with others and also with myself.
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
SVDP QUOTE: July 23
"The virtue of gratitude will prepare our hearts to receive the graces we need to serve the sick and poor with meekness and compassion." ~ St. Louise de Marillac
Lord, I am humbled by the many ways you continually bless me and the great privilege I have of serving you in the poor. May I always treat them with the respect and compassion they deserve.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Quote of the Day
Perhaps Our Lord has permitted these causes of repugnance in order to preach to yourself and to protect you from the empty satisfactions we imperceptibly seek in our work (VII:21).
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Monday, July 21, 2025
Quote of the Day
Now we have many Missionaries in heaven. There is no room to doubt this since they all made the supreme sacrifice of their lives for charity and there is no greater love than to give one’s life for the neighbor (VII:15).
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July 21, 2025
"You know how unwilling we are to deny ourselves, how unwilling to be reproved and contradicted, how a trifling thing will make us sad, how we delight to be commended while, with a sort of natural cruelty we see blame and faults in others which we scarcely willing to excuse." ~ St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Holy Spirit, come with your gift of wisdom and enlighten me that I may become so aware of inconsistencies in my own life, there will be little time to find fault with anyone else.
Sunday, July 20, 2025
July 20, 2025
"O sir, what a faithful image of Our Lord, is participation in the meekness and humility of his heart!" How it portrays his manner of acting, especially when firmness accompanies it." ~ St. Vincent de Paul
Lord, in imitation of you, teach me how to be firm, yet gentle and loving when I have to take an unpopular stand I know to be right.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
July 19, 2025
"We must receive with respect whatever God presents to us and then examine the situation with its circumstances in order to do what is most expedient." ~ St. Vincent de Paul
In resolving situations in my work, Lord, nothing can be accomplished without objectivity and reflection. In those circumstances, quiet my mind and calm my anxiety so I can be a part of the solution and not the problem.
Friday, July 18, 2025
July 18, 2025
"Let us patiently bear the contradictions and repugnances we encounter in the discharge of duty, since our actions are thereby rendered more agreeable to God." ~ St. Louise de Marillac
Teach me, Lord, the discipline of patience, which I find harder than work. Maybe then, in the quietness of reflection I will begin to understand that you speak to me through the very difficulties I am facing.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
July 16, 2025
"What can shut us out from the love of Him, who will ever dwell within us through love?" ~ St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Heavenly Father, soften my heart when anger closes me off from those who have upset me. Help me to overlook and forget these incidents just as you are constantly forgiving me.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025
"There is no charity without justice, nor does it permit us to do more than we reasonably can." ~ St. Vincent de Paul
Working for the poor without also doing what I can to root out the causes of injustice to them is not very effective. This truth should be a guiding principle for me as I do about my work, Lord.
Quote of the Day
This is how God usually works: He separates and then reunites; He distances and then brings close together; He takes away and then gives back; lastly, He destroys and restores, leaving nothing permanent in this life (VI:569).
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Monday, July 14, 2025
July 14, 2025
"Sufferings well received will prove our passport to eternity." ~ St. Louise de Marillac
Suffering the pain of misunderstanding is hard to bear. Heal, O Lord, the broken and troubled relationships in my life. Teach me to forgive as you want me to forgive - completely and wholeheartedly being the first to make amends.
Friday, July 11, 2025
July 13, 2025
"By love, Our Lord won over those he wanted to believe in him. No matter how much we exert ourselves, people will never have faith in us unless we should charity and compassion to those whom we wish to believe in us." ~ St. Vincent de Paul
Good works, no matter how praiseworthy, will never engender trust. Knowing your unconditional love for me, Lord, makes it possible for me to love others and reveal to them how blessed they are in your sight.
July 12, 2025
"The greater my unworthiness, the more abundance his mercy." ~ St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Lord, I know you have a special love for the poor and the little in the eyes of the world, so I as you, today, for the openness and candor of a little child who is totally dependent on your love and mercy. In You I place all my trust.
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