Quiet Moment

Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs Why do you ceaselessly ask to taste of my delights and why do you refuse the tribulations? — St. Margaret of Cortona

Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary How happy I was, O good mother, to have the grace to gaze upon you. — St. Bernadette Soubirous

The Ascension of the Lord (Ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Omaha, and Philadelphia) Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter (All other provinces) Christ’s Ascension is our uplifting, and the hope of the body is…

Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter Ultimately, faith is the only key to the universe. — Thomas Merton

Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter To choose what is difficult all one’s days as if it were easy, that is faith. — W.H. Auden

Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop Memorial Day (USA) Cry the Gospel with your whole life. — Bl. Charles de Foucauld

Sixth Sunday of Easter Every day he humbles himself just as he did when he came from his heavenly throne into the Virgin’s womb; every day he comes to us and lets us see him in lowliness, when he descends from the bosom of the Father into…

Optional Memorial of St. Bede the Venerable, Priest and Doctor of the Church; St. Gregory VII, Pope; St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, Virgin On hearing Christ’s voice, we open the door to receive him, as it were, when we freely assent to his…

Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. — St. Teresa of Kolkata

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do. — Servant of God Dorothy Day