Elizabeth's Blog

LORD JESUS CHRIST, Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, I bless and thank you for the sorrowful beginning of Your most bitter Passion, for Your extreme sadness of soul, and for the anguish and dread You felt in Your weak human nature, which You willingly assumed for our sake. When the hour...

Lord, for tomorrow and its needs I do not pray; Keep me, my God, from stain of sin, Just for today. Let me both diligently work And duly pray; Let me be kind in word and deed, Just for today. Let me be slow to do my will, Prompt to obey; Help me to mortify my flesh, Just for today. Let me no...

To win my heart with vision bright and fair. In vain the world with all its craft has tried. Harmless and weak its dazzling weapons are; I nothing fear with Jesus at my side I nothing fear with Jesus at my side Come all ye proud ones of the earth, array Your gathering hosts around me far and...

Let him take up his cross, the one that is his. Let that man (or woman) so rare far beyond the price of pearls, take up his cross joyfully, embrace it lovingly, and carry it courageously on his shoulders, his own cross, and not that of another - his own cross which I, in My wisdom, designed for...