Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.

Lord, I lean on You alone for strength. Give me your arm to support me, your shoulders to carry me, your breast on which to lay my head, your Cross to uphold me, your Eucharist to nourish me. On you Lord, I shall sleep and rest in peace.

Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon.

Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.