Lent 2026: 40 Days to Peace and Union with God Previous Days' Reflections

“This glorious son of the carpenter, who set up his cross above the all-consuming world of the dead, led the human race into the abode ...

“Eternal life is the perfect fulfillment of desire; inasmuch as each of the blessed will have more than he desired or hoped for.” – ST. ...

“Mary has truly become the Mother of all believers. Men and women of every time and place have recourse to her motherly kindness and her ...

“ ‘Consider well,’ he says to us, ‘that in loving I was first. You had not yet come forth into the light, not even the ...

“I am the same under each of the species, but not every soul receives me with the same living faith as you do, my daughter, ...

“But he was not satisfied with giving us all these beautiful things. He went to such lengths to win our love that he gave himself ...

“An egg given during life for love of God is more profitable for eternity than a cathedral full of gold given after death.” – ST. ...

“What is this wealth of goodness? What is this mystery that touches me? I received the divine image and I did not keep it. He ...

“He was crucified on behalf of us all and for the sake of us all, so that, when one had died instead of all, we ...

“Let us have recourse to that fatherly love revealed to us by Christ in his messianic mission, a love which reached its culmination in his ...

“You who have now put on Christ and follow our guidance are like little fish on the hook: you are being pulled up out of ...

“Therefore, though it is God who takes the initiative of coming to dwell in the midst of men, and he is always the main architect ...

“For God, as I have said, does not work in those who refuse to place all their trust and expectation in him alone.” – ST. ...

“His attitude towards sinners was full of kindness and loving friendship.” – ST. JOHN BOSCO READ: JOHN 8:2–11 At daybreak he appeared in the Temple ...

“Since Christ is our peace, we shall be living up to the name of Christian if we let Christ be seen in our lives by ...

“Jesus Christ is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega; he is the king of the new world; he is the secret ...

“When we consider that Christ is the true light far removed from all falsehood, we realize that our lives too should be lit by the ...

“What is this wealth of goodness? What is this mystery that touches me? I received the divine image and I did not keep it. He ...

“There is one most priceless pearl: the knowledge of the Savior, the mystery of his Passion, the secret of his Resurrection.” – ST. JEROME READ: ...

“Whether I receive good or ill, I return thanks equally to God, who taught me always to trust him unreservedly.” – ST. PATRICK READ: JOHN ...

“What is it that made the holy apostles and martyrs undergo fierce struggles and terrible agonies, if not faith, and above all faith in the ...

“Let us carry bravely the shield of faith, so that with its protection we may be able to parry whatever the enemy hurls at us.” ...

“Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confession.” – ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE READ: LUKE 18:9–17 He spoke the ...

“For our sakes he suffered all the agonies of body and mind, and did not shrink from any torment. He gave us a perfect example ...

“To choose rightly it is necessary to concentrate on the end for which I am created, that is, for the praise of God and for ...

“Of all divine things, the most godlike is to cooperate with God in the conversion of sinners.” – ST. DENIS THE AREOPAGITE READ: MATTHEW 5:17–19 ...

“O Christian, be aware of your nobility — it is God’s own nature that you share; do not then, by an ignoble life, fall back ...

“If you search for the reason why a man loves God, you will find no other reason at all, save that God first loved him.” ...

“To show that he was not different from us, he undertook hard work, he went hungry and thirsty, he took rest and sleep, he did ...

“On the basis of this way of manifesting the presence of God who is Father, love, and mercy, Jesus makes mercy one of the principal ...

“My daughter, all your miseries have been consumed in the flame of My love, like a little twig thrown into a roaring fire.” – JESUS ...

“Girding our loins then with faith and the observance of good deeds let us so follow his paths under the guidance of the gospel that ...

“He it is whose sufferings are shared by the martyrs with their glorious courage and by all those who believe and are born again at ...

“The man who loves God thinks it enough to please him whom he loves, for no greater reward can be sought than that love itself.” ...

“The measure of love is to love without measure.” – ST. AUGUSTINE READ: LUKE 6:27–38 “But I say this to you who are listening: Love ...

“If he were not of the same nature as ourselves, his command to imitate him as a master would be a futile one.” – ST. ...

“Finally, may Christ inflame the desires of all men to break through the barriers which divide them, to strengthen the bonds of mutual love, to ...

“The Christian life is the continuation and completion of the life of Christ in us. We should be so many Christs here on earth, continuing ...

“Teach me to seek you, and reveal yourself to me as I seek, because I can neither seek you if you do not teach me ...

“Man has a noble task: that of prayer and love. To pray and to love, that is the happiness of man on earth.” – ST. ...

“Mindful then of our condition, that we are essentially limited and absolutely dependent on the Supreme Being, before everything else let us have recourse to ...

“I beg you, join with me in love. Run with me in faith. Let us yearn for our heavenly home. Let us sigh for it. ...