“CHARITY begins today. Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. Our work is for today, yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come. We see a need, we go to meet it; at least, we do something about it.” – Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Teresa of Avila: “The Lord does not look so much at the magnitude of anything we do as the love with which we do it.”

We can PREPARE OUR SOULS for HIS arrival by living a life of prayer, overcoming sin, developing virtue, and making a complete surrender to God.

Therese of Lisieux: “Jesus does not demand great actions from us but simply surrender and gratitude….He has no need of our works but only of our love.”

To do this, she believes, we need a NEW HEART. Ask Jesus to share his own Sacred Heart with us. Making this petition in trusting confidence is the key to loving God with all our heart. 

TRANFORM OUR HEARTS by planting his own love within us, if we only ASK for this divine favour.

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: “St. Therese of the Child Jesus shows you even in the little details of daily life how one can follow Him.”

She teaches us to love God with our whole mind by OPENING OURSELVES to the power of the cross, a “paradox” to closed minds sceptical of God’s truth. For HE alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Truly open-minded people allow their intellectual compass to point the way to God.

Mother Teresa: “To the good God nothing is little because He is so great and we so small…Yes, my dear children, be faithful in little practices of love, of little sacrifices…which will …make you Christ-like.

Joyfully loving our neighbours as ourselves, according to Mother Teresa, is a matter of ENCOUNTERING JESUS in them. She me Jesus every day, first in the Blessed Sacrament and then in those she loved and served.

May we learn from the victorious examples of the four Teresas that the greatest satisfaction in life does not come from eliminating every struggle, solving every problem, and answering every question. Rather, as Jesus himself assures as, our true fulfilment in this life – and in the next – comes from loving God with our entire being, heart, mind, and soul.

Picture Caption: JC Maming is our next beneficiary for PROJECT W.A.L.K. (Wishes of Aid and Limbs for Kids. Project WALK will provide him two prosthetic arms. With your generosity, we hope to give him a bright future. He is computer literate and would like to land a job to help his family. He is the eldest among four siblings, from Malay, Aklan.