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Words of Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus


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September Prayer Calendar


























October 1

Feast of Thérèse of Lisieux
Let us try to be great in humility and little in ourselves.




























October 2

Feast of the Guardian Angels
Be faithful to your Guardian Angel… How wonderful is the secret action of the Angels in carrying out the designs of God.





























October 3

It is precisely because you are called to live busy lives that you must lead lives of prayer.




























October 4

Feast of St Francis of Assisi
Be simple and humble and you will be sure of being blest.




























October 5

Stiffness and rigor will not bring forth love; they are not the spirit of the Holy Child.




























October 6

Be faithful, trim your lamps with the oil of fidelity and especially fidelity in little things.




























October 7

Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
If our thoughts, words, and actions resemble those of our dear Mother [Mary], none of them will be useless.




























October 8

[Try] to laugh when you are disposed to grow angry.




























October 9

Sit in silence before Our Lord, and be more ready to listen than to talk.



























October 10

Charity is the highest of all virtues.




























October 11

Oh, if our poor hearts are so easily touched by those who are contrite, what must it be with the Heart of that loving God who died for us?




























October 12

We are what we are in the sight of God, nothing more and nothing less.




























October 13

Feast of St. Edward the Confessor (Foundation day of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, 1846)
The past, the present, the future are equally present to Our Lord.




























October 14

Oh, how ungrateful it is to higgle with Our Lord over the daily crosses of this short pilgrimage.




























October 15

Feast of St Teresa of Avila (first Mass celebrated in a Holy Child convent, Derby, England, 1846 )
We have God and the truth on our side, therefore we need fear nothing.




























October 16

Be persuaded that nothing is little with God.




























October 17

Do not allow your heart to be wounded, and if it is wounded in spite of your efforts, stitch up the wound with the love of God.




























October 18

Feast of St Luke
Why are we not all saints? Only because our hearts are not fixed in God.




























October 19

I wish we could pray so fervently as to obtain for all the true spirit of the Holy Child, and the love of all that He loved and taught.






























October 20

We may often by a little word help others out of years of trouble.




























October 21

The way of God is often quite different from our imagination of it.




























October 22

… to judge things wisely is to view them as God views them.




























October 23

You will never really work well with anyone unless you think it possible for others to know much better than yourself.




























October 24

My God, help me in my great weakness.




























October 25

Love in strength rather than in too much sweetness.




























October 26

I hope always to be able to do something for His glory, be it only not resisting His grace.




























October 27

When your hands toil, love Him with your hands.




























October 28

My God, trim Thy vine; cut it to the quick, but in Thy great mercy root it not yet up.




























October 29

Discretion is the cement of all virtues.




























October 30

It is not presumption to have hope and joy and confidence in God’s grace.




























October 31

I most ardently desire to see you closely united to God in prayer and in all your actions.