From Facebook, Instagram, and X this past week:

Since mental prayer brings our intellect to the light of God, and keeps our will exposed to the flames of divine love, there is nothing which can better dispel the darkness with which ignorance and error have obscured our intelligence, nor better purify our hearts from all our depraved affections. It is the water of benediction which should serve to wash away the iniquities of our souls, to refresh our hearts consumed by the thirst of our cupidity, and to nourish the first seeds which virtue has there planted, and which are good desires. — Saint Francis de Sales

I believe that there are no other words of the Gospel which have made a deeper impression on me and transformed by life than these: “Whatever you do to the least of these little ones, you do to me” [Mt 25:40]. If we imagine that these words are those of Uncreated Truth and come from the mouth of him who said, “This is my Body, this is my Blood,” with what strength are we impelled to seek and to love Jesus in these little ones, the sinners and the poor. — Saint Charles de Foucauld

Never separate Jesus in the Eucharist and Jesus in the poor. — Saint Teresa of Calcutta