"Picture to yourself all the torments and indignities of His Passion, and amazed at His constancy, blush at your own weakness. Look upon your suffering as merely imaginative when compared to His and regard your patience as not even the faintest adumbration of His. Dread nothing so much as unwillingness to suffer for your Savior, rejecting such unwillingness as a suggestion from Hell." 

- Dom Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat and a Treatise on Peace of Soul

Nothing we suffer comes close to the pain,injustice and agony endured by our Savior. Think of His Passion - our weak minds cannot grasp the full horror and great sacrifice. Think of our God Who is perfection; Who is worthy of all love and adoration. He who gives life to all and tenderly cares for them for all eternity. He, Whos love for His creatures was so great that He came down to dwell among us in the poorest of conditions. He ,Who deserves more than we could ever hope to give Him, came to us in the humblest of ways. He took on our nature; He suffered every temptation because He was man...and yet God. How great a love! He knew we could never repay Him but His love was so passionate and unquenchable that He would do anything for us :] The best thanks we can give to our Savior is our souls. To fight the devil; to not give in! He died so cruelly in atonement for our sins - are we so ungrateful to throw it all away and to let His enemy win? This enemy who tries to steal what is His and sought to destroy Him when He was man - shall we let him rule our lives? Our beloved Savior fought for our souls "..thou beholdest these wounds received to purchase for thee those virtues with which I would adorn thy soul, more dear to Me than life itself?" let us not give them over to the devil so cheaply. Our Hope was purchased at so great a price - the least we can do is accept it. Persevere. Pray. Live to please our Lord, thank Him, and give balm to His most Sacred Heart.


My Dearest Jesus, enlighten our minds. Teach us Your ways. Help me to love You as I should. 
Mary, my Mother, pray for me that I might become more like you and more pleasing to our Lord.