Ninth Day - Holiness is Jesus Living and Acting in Me

"Our works of charity are nothing but the overflow of our love of God from within. Therefore, the one who is most united to Him loves her neighbor most."

"Our activity is truly apostolic only in so far as we permit Him to work in us and through us - with His power, with His desire, with His love. We must become holy not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live His life fully in us."

"Let us spend ourselves with Him and for Him. Let Him see with your eyes, speak with your tongue, work with your hands, walk with your feet, think with your head and love with your heart. Is this not perfect union, a continual loving prayer? God is our loving Father. Let your light of love so shine before man that seeing your good works (the washing, sweeping, cooking, loving your husband and the children) they may glorify the Father."

"Be holy. Holiness is the easiest way to satiate Jesus' Thirst, His for you and yours for Him."

Thought for the day:

"Charity for each other is the surest way to great holiness."

Ask for the grace to become a saint.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Eigth Day - Jesus Made Himself the Bread of LIfe and the Hungry One

"He proved His love to us by giving His own life, His own being. 'He being rich became poor' for you and for me. He gave Himself totally. He died on the Cross. But before He died He made Himself the Bread of Life to satisfy our hunger for love, for Him. He said, 'Unless you eat My Flesh and drink My Blood you cannot have life eternal.' And the greatness of that love of His made Him the hungry one, and He said, 'I was hungry and you fed me, and unless you feed Me you cannot enter eternal life.' That is the giving of Christ. and today God keeps on loving the world. He keeps on sending you and me to prove that He loves the world, that He still has that compassion for the world. It is we who have to be His love, His compassion in the world of today. But to be able to love we must have faith, for faith in action is love, and love in action is service. That is why Jesus made Himself the Bread of Life, that we may be able to eat and live and be able to see Him in the distressing disguise of the poor."

"Our life must be woven with the Eucharist. From Jesus in the Eucharist we learn how much God thirsts to love us and how He thirsts for our love and for the love of souls in return. From Jesus in the Eucharist we receive the light and strength to quench His Thirst,."

Thought for the day:

"Believe that He, Jesus, is in the appearance of Bread and that He, Jesus, is in the hungry, naked, sick, lonely, unloved, homeless, helpless and hopeless."

Ask for the grace to see Jesus in the Bread of Life and to serve Him in the distressing disguise of the poor:

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Seventh Day - God Loves a Cheerful Giver

"To bring joy into our very soul the good God has given Himself to us. Joy is not simply a matter of temperament. In the service of God and souls, it is always hard - all the more reason why we should try to acquire it and make it grow in our hearts. Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch many souls. God loves a cheerful giver. He gives most, who gives with joy. If in the work you have difficulties and you accept them with joy, with a big smile, in this like in any other things others will see your good work and glorify the father. The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love."

"Without joy there is no love, and love without joy is not true love. And so, we need to bring that love and that joy into the world of today."

"Joy was the strength of Our Lady, too. Our Lady was the first Missionary of Charity. She was the first one to receive Jesus physically and to carry Jesus to others; and she went in haste. Only joy could give her this strength and swiftness to go and do the work of a handmaid."

Thought for the day:

"Joy is the sign of union with God, of God's presence. Joy is love, the normal result of a heart burning with love."

Ask for the grace to find joy in loving and to share this joy with everyone you meet.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Sixth Day - True Love is Surrender

"'I thirst' has no meaning unless through total surrender I give all to Jesus."

"How easy it is to conquer God! We give ourselves to God, then God is ours; and there is nothing more ours than God. For if we surrender to Him, we shall posses Him as He possesses Himself; that is, we shall live His own life. The money with which God repays our surrender is Himself. We become worth of possessing Him when we abandon ourselves to Him in a supernatural way. True love is surrender. The more we love the more we surrender."

"Often you see small and big wires, new and old, chap and expensive, lined up. Unless and until the current passes through them there will be no light. the wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the Light of the World - Jesus; or refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread. Our Lady was the most wonderful wire. She allowed God to fill her to the brim, so by her surrender - 'Be it done to me according to your word' - she became full of grace; and naturally the moment she was filled by this current, the grace of God, she went in haste to Elizabeth's house to connect the wire, John, to the current, Jesus."

Thought for the day:

"Allow God to use you without consulting you."

Ask for the grace to surrender your whole life to God.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Fifth Day - Trust Jesus Blindly

"Trust in the good God, who loves us, who cares for us, who sees all, knows all, can do all things for my good and the good of souls."

"Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Give yourself fully to Jesus. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His Love than in your weakness. Believe in Him, trust in Him with blind and absolute confidence because He is Jesus."

"Jesus never changes. Trust Him lovingly, trust Him with a big smile, always believing He is the Way to the Father. He is the light in this world of darkness."

"In all sincerity we must be able to look up and say: I can do all things in Him Who strengthens me.' Because of this assertion of St.Paul, you must have a certain confidence in doing your work - or rather God's work - well, efficiently, even perfectly, with Jesus and for Jesus. Be also convinced that you by yourself can do nothing, have nothing, but sin,, weakness and misery; that all the gifts of nature and of grace which you have, you have them from God."

"Mary, too, showed that complete trust in God by accepting to be used for His plan of salvation in spite of her nothingness, for she knew that He who is mighty can do great things in her and through her. She trusted. Once sh said 'yes' to Him - finished. She never doubted."

Thought for the day:

"Confidence in God can do all things. It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude."

Ask for the grace to have an unshakable trust in God's power and love for you and for all.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Fourth Day - Our Lady Will Help You

"How much we need Mary to teach us what it means to satiate God's Thirsting Love for us, which Jesus came to reveal to us. She did it so beautifully. Hes, Mary allowed God to take possession of her life by her purity, her humility and her faithful love. Let us seek to grow, under the guidance of our Heavenly Mother, in these three important interior attitudes of soul that delight the Heart of God and enable Him to unite Himself to us, in and through Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit. It is in doing so that, like Mary our Mother, we will allow God to take full possession of our whole being - and through us God will be able to reach out His Thirsting Love to all we come in contact with, especially the poor."

"If we stand with Our Lady, she will give us her spirit of loving trust, total surrender and cheerfulness."

Thought for the day:

"How close we must keep to Our Lady who understood what depth of Divine Love was being revealed as she stood at the foot of the Cross and heard Jesus cry out: "I thirst."

Ask for the grace to learn from Our Lady to quench Jesus' thirst as she did.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely taht my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Third Day - Hear Him Say to You: "I thirst"

"In His agony, in His pain, in His loneliness He said very clearly, 'Why have You forsaken Me?' He was so terribly lonely and forsaken and suffering on the Cross. At this most difficult time He proclaimed: 'I thirst"  And the people thought He was thirst in an ordinary way and they gave Him vinegar straight away; but it was not that He thirsted for - it was for our love, our affection, that intimate attachment to Him, and that sharing of His passion. And it is strange that He used such a word. He used 'I thirst' instead of 'Give Me your love.' The thirst of Jesus on the Cross is not imagination. It was a word: 'I thirst.' Let us hear Him saying it to me and saying it to you. It is really a gift of God."

"If you listen with your heart, you will hear, you will understand.  Until you know deep inside that Jesus thirsts for you, you can't begin to know who He wants to be for you. Or who He wants you to be for Him."

"Follow His footsteps in search of souls. Carry Him and His light into the homes of the poor, especially to the souls and most in need.  Spread the charity of His Heart wherever you go and so satiate His thirst for souls."

Thought for the day:

"Just think! god is thirsting for you and me to come forward to satiate His thirst."

Ask for the grance to understand Jesus' cry of thirst.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Second Day - Jesus Loves You

"Am I convinced of Christ's love for me, and mine for Him? This conviction is like the sunlight which makes the sap of life rise and the buds of sanctity bloom. this conviction is the rock on which sanctity is built."

"The devil may try to use hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes, to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is a danger for al of us. And so sad, because it is completely opposite of what Jesus is realy wanting, waiting to tell you.. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy."

"Jesus loves you tenderly, you are precious to Him. Turn to Jesus with great trust and allow yourself to be loved by Him. The past belongs to His mercy, the future to His providence, and the present to His love."

Thought for the day:

"Do not be afraid - you are precious to Jesus.  He loves you."

Ask for the grace to be convinced of Jesus' unconditional and personal love for you.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely taht my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

First Day -Know the Living Jesus

"Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart?"

"Am I convinced of Christ's love for me and mine for Him? This conviction is the rock on which sanctity is built. What must we do to get this conviction? We must know Jesus, love Jesus, serve Jesus. Knowledge will make you strong as death. We know Jesus through faith: by meditating on His Word in the Scriptures, by listening to Him speak through His Church, and through the intimate union of prayer."

"Seek Him in the tabernacle. Fix your eyes on Him who is the Light. Bring your hearts close to His Divine Heart and ask Him to grant you the grace of knowing Him."

Thought for the day

"Don't search for Jesus in far lands; He is not there. He is close to you; He is in you."

Ask for the grace of an intimate knowledge of Jesus.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed the thirsting love of Jesus on the Cross to become a living flame within you, and so became the light of His love to all.

Obtain from the Heart of Jesus (here make your request).

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely taht my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for me.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me.

Mother Teresa's spiritual director, Jesuit Father Celeste Van Exem, said of her: "The meaning of her whole life was a person: Jesus." Indeed, for Mother Teresa, Jesus was everything. When asked by a reporter, "Mother, what place do you give to Jesus in your life?" she immediately replied, "Igive Him all the place." this total belonging to Jesus is evident in the following meditation Mother Teresa composed while hospitalized in rome in 1983.

"WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?" (Matt. 16:15)

You are god.
You are God from God.
You are Begotten, not made.
You are One in Substance with the Father.
You are the Son of the Living God.
You are the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.

You are One with the Father.
You are in the Father from the beginning:
All things were made by You and the Father.
You are the Beloved Son in Whom the Father is well pleased.
You are the Son of Mary, conceived by the Holy spirit in the womb of Mary.

You were born in Bethlehem.
You were wrapped in swaddling clothes by Mary and put in the manger full of straw.
You were kept warm by the breath of the donkey that carried Your mother with You in her womb.
You are the Son of Joseph, the Carpenter, as know by the people of of Nazareth.
You are an ordinary man without much learning, as judged by the learned people of Israel.

Who is Jesus to me?
Jesus is the Word made Flesh.
Jesus is the Bread of Life.
Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the Cross.
Jesus is the Sacrifice offered at the Holy Mass for the sins of the world and mine.
Jesus is the Word - to be spoken.
Jesus is the Truth - to be told.
Jesus is the Way - to be walked.
Jesus is the Light - to be lit.
Jesus is the Love - to be loved.
Jesus is the Joy - to be shared.
Jesus is the Sacrifice - to be offered.
Jesus is the Peace - to be given.
Jesus is the Bread of Life - to be eaten.
Jesus is the Hungry - to be fed.
Jesus is the Thirsty - to be satiated.
Jesus is the Naked - to be clothed.
Jesus is the Homeless - to be taken in.
Jesus is the Sick - to be healed.
Jesus is the Lonely - to be loved.
Jesus is the Unwanted - to be wanted.
Jesus is the Leper - to wash his wounds.
Jesus is the Beggar - to give him a smile.
Jesus is the Drunkard - to listen to him.
Jesus is the Retarded - to protect him.
Jesus is the Little One - to embrace him.
Jesus is the Blind - to lead him.
Jesus is the Dumb - to speak for him.
Jesus is the Crippled - to walk with him.
Jesus is the Drug Addict - to befriend him.
Jesus is the Prostitute - to remove from danger and befriend.
Jesus is the Prisoner - to be visited.
Jesus is the Old - to be served.

To me -
Jesus is my God.
Jesus is my Spouse.
Jesus is my Life.
Jesus is my only Love.
Jesus is my All in All.
Jesus is my Everything.

Jesus, I love with my whole heart, whith my whole being. I have given Him all, even my sins, and He has espoused me to Himself in tenderness and love. Now and for life I am the spouse of my Crucified Spouse. Amen.