It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words..."Thy will be done."

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.

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

Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him.

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