Just for Today, March 12

They laboured all the day, and in the night they gave themselves to long prayers; though even whilst they were at work, they ceased not from mental prayer.
-Bk. I, ch. xviii.
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The Saint always endeavoured to lead her religious life with the perfection that St Teresa expected from her Carmelites. If the work upon which she was en­gaged was not too absorbing, her thoughts would turn naturally to God. One day a novice entered her cell and was struck by the heavenly expression on her face. She was busily sewing, and yet was apparently lost in con­templation. The novice asked what she was thinking about, and the Saint replied: "I was meditating on the Our Father. How sweet it is to call God our Father!" And her eyes filled with tears.
-The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme)
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Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.