Saint of the Day: St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop & Doctor


God says to each of us: "Give me your heart, that is, your will." We, in turn, cannot offer anything more precious than to say: "Lord, take possession of us; we give our whole will to You; make us understand what it is that You desire of us, and we will perform it."

If we would give full satisfaction to the heart of God, we must bring our own will in everything into conformity with His; and not only into conformity, but into uniformity also, as regards all that God ordains. Conformity signifies the joining of our own will to the will of God; but uniformity signifies, further, our making of the Divine and our own will one will only, so that we desire nothing but what God desires, and His will becomes ours. This is the sum and substance of that perfection to which we ought to be ever aspiring; this is what must be the aim of all we do, and of all our desires, meditations and prayers. For this we must invoke the assistance of all our patron saints and our guardian angels, and, above all, of our Divine Mother Mary, who was the most perfect saint, because she embraced most perfectly the Divine will.

~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, from The Redeeming Love of Christ

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