I have vowed to get my prayer routine back in order this summer. It is one of the few things I can do with my arms full of precious baby. And then the ladies at 4real offered the opportunity to prepare together to re-consecrate ourselves to Our Blessed Mother in August. In order to get going in that direction, I am promising myself to finally read a b ook that has been sitting in my prayer basket for far too long: Humility of Heart by Fr. Cajetan Mary de Bergamo. (No linking possible...not on my own computer!)
It's been four days and I still can't get past the first paragraph. There's enough there to provide thought for a long, long time:
"In Paradise there are many saints who never game alms on earth: their poverty justified them. There are many Saints who never mortified their bodies by fasting or wearing hair shirts: their bodily infirmities excused them. There are many Saints too who were not virgins: their vocation was otherwise. But in Paradise, there is no Saint who was not humble."
I hope I can share some more of the gems this volume has to offer throughout the summer.