John 13:13-15

“If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”

Question for Meditation: How will you “wash the feet” of someone today?

Luke 9:23

“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”

Question for Meditation: What cross do you need to take up today? How will you plan to carry it?

Pope Benedict XVI

“[Lent] is a period of spiritual ‘combat’ which we must experience alongside Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the arms of faith: prayer, listening to the word of God and penance. In this way we will be able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of our Baptism.”

Question for Meditation: How are you preparing for Easter?

St. Anthony the Great

“With this single aim in view, he disciplines his soul, and whatever he may encounter in the course of his life, he gives thanks to God for the compass and depth of His providential ordering of all things.”

Question for Meditation: Where can you see God’s providence today? How can you show your gratefulness for it?

Hebrews 12:11

“Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”

Question for Meditation: What are you training for?

Sura 22.78

“And strive in His cause like you should strive, with devotion and dedication.”

Question for Meditation: How can you dedicate yourself to a cause today?

Gertrude Jekyll

“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”

Question for Meditation: What lessons can you learn from your everyday tasks?

St. Joan of Arc

“Act and God will act, work and He will work.”

Question for Meditation: Do you trust God enough to work with you?

Matthew 1:24

“When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home.”

Question for Meditation: What is God commanding you to do?

Rule of St. Benedict 43.3

“Let nothing, therefore, be put before the Work of God.”

Question for Meditation: What do you do for God? Is it your first priority?