November 16

“Your intention should be to unite your will to the Will of God, and not to draw God’s Will to yours.”

SCUPOLI

“Our resignation to the Will of God may be said to be perfect when our will is lost and resolved up in His; when we rest in His will as our end, as being itself most just, right and good. And where is the impossibility of such an affection to what is just and right and good, - such a loyalty of heart to the Governor of the Universe as shall prevail over all sinister desires of our own.”

BUTLER

“When you say ‘Lead us not into temptation’, you must in good earnest mean to avoid in your daily conduct those temptations which you have already suffered from. When you say, ‘Deliver us from evil’, you must mean to struggle against that evil in your hearts which you are conscious of and which you pray to be forgiven.”

J. H. NEWMAN