St. Teresa of Calcutta

“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.”

Question for Meditation: How can you “let God love others through you” in the next few weeks?

Nelson Mandela

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Question for Meditation: What do you need to do the impossible?

St. Ignatius of Loyola

“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”

Question for Meditation: Who do you obey?

Madeleine L’Engle

“This is the irrational season
when love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
there’d have been no room for the child.”

Question for Meditation: Is there something irrational you need to pay more attention to? What is it and how will it change you and/or others?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“But Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.”

Question for Meditation: Who needs you to listen to them today?

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.”

Question for Meditation: What can you make beautiful this weekend?

St. Jeanne de Chantal

“Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.”

Question for Meditation: What do you need to let go of?

La Virgen de Guadalupe to Juan Diego

“Maxiccaqui, ma huel yuh ye in moyollo, noxocoyouh, maca tle tlein mitzmauhti, mitzteouipacho. Macamo quen mochihua in mix in moyollo. Macamo xiquimacaci in cocoliztli, manoce oc itla cocoliztli, cococ teopouhqui. Cuix amo nican nica nimonantzin? Cuix amo nocehuallotitlan, necauhyotitlan in tica? Cuix amo nehuatl innimopaccayeliz? Cuix amo nocuixanco nomamalhuazco in tica? Cuix oc itla in motech moneoui? Macamo oc itla mitztequipacho mitzamana.”  (Nahuatl)

“Oye y ten entendido hijo mío el mas pequeño, que es nada lo que te asusta y aflije; no se turbe tu corazón; no temas esa enfermedad, ni otra alguna enfermedad y angustia. ¿No estoy yo aquí?, ¿No soy tu Madre?, ¿No estás bajo mi sombra?, ¿No soy yo tu salud?, ¿No estás por ventura en mi regazo?, ¿Qué mas has menester?. No te apene ni te inquiete otra cosa.”  (Spanish)

“Hear me and understand well, my little son, that nothing should frighten or grieve you. Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything.”  (English)

Question for Meditation: What comforts you when you need to be courageous?

Oskar Schindler

“I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do…”

Question for Meditation: Take a moment to listen to your conscience. What is it telling you to do?

Thomas Merton

“I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.”

Question for Meditation: Take a moment to ask God for guidance and a clear path.