Daily Contemplation

What is good, except God?
Then let us leave to Him everything that concerns us and all will be well.
For He who is good is naturally also a giver of good gifts.

“For those who bless Him shall inherit the earth” (Ps 36:22 OSB),
that is, they shall possess that righteous One:
the only One who both is truly righteous, and makes righteous:
who both was poor in this world, and brought great riches to it,…

God did not make the world as a carpenter makes a chest.
The chest which he makes is outside the carpenter,
and so it is put in another place;
and although the workman is near, he sits in another place,…

It is not due to a location being gloomy and solitary that demons gain power over us,
but through emptiness of soul.
And through God’s providence this occurs so that we may be instructed by it.

As Christ was unknown by those who did not believe the prophets before He came,
He remained unknown to them even when present.
For He came humbly and concealed (in His first coming);
the more concealed in proportion as He was more humble.…

By loving we dwell with the heart

Just as illusion is the soul’s punishment, so is Truth its reward

As he who seduced Adam said of himself, “I will sit in the sides of the north,”
so he persuaded Adam by saying, “Taste, and you shall be as gods.”
By pride then have we so fallen as to arrive at this mortality.
And because pride had wounded us, humility makes us whole.…

Mary, who was moved by the angel’s entrance, was unmoved by the miracles.
“Mary,” it is said, “kept all these things in her heart.” (Lk 2:19)
Though she was the mother of the Lord, yet she desired to learn the precepts of the Lord,
and she who brought forth God, yet desired to know God.

For the Word of God is your adversary, if you are a friend to your ungodliness;
but if you are an adversary to your ungodliness,
the Word of God is your friend, as well as the adversary of your ungodliness

He can be found by means of the creation, as the apostle plainly says,
“For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and glory;
so they are without excuse.”…

Observe that the tears shed for Christ do not lose their reward,
nor is it long before love for Him bears fruit.
Rather, His grace and rich restitution will follow closely in the wake of pain.
Notice how—as Mary was sitting there, her cheeks bedewed with mourning…