October 7

Joy is prayer, joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.

October 6

And this is something that is so beautiful to see, that shining happiness in the face of that mother, who had the love to share. I had not the courage to ask her how long her family hadn't eaten, but I am sure it must have been a long time, and yet she knew - in her suffering, in her sorrow, in her terrible bodily suffering she knew that next door they were hungry also.
Do we know that our neighbor needs love? Do we know that our neighbor needs care? As the example of this family shows, God will never forget us and there is something you and I can always do.

October 5

I will never forget the night an old gentleman came to our house and said that there was a family with eight children an they had not eaten, and would we do something for them. So I took some rice and went there. The mother took the rice from my hands, then she divided it into two and went out. I could see the faces of the children shining with hunger. When she came back I asked her where she had gone. She gave me a very simple answer: "They are hungry also." And "they" were the family next door and she knew that they were hungry. I was not surprised that she gave, but I was surprised that she knew.

October 4

Riches and money do not make us rich - what makes us rich is our attachment to them. God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold, and so the more we learn to share the more we come to know each other, we will love one another, and if we love one another we will be able to share the joy of what we have.

October 3

Today we see more and more that all the suffering in the world has started from the home. Today we have no time even to look at each other, to talk to each other, to enjoy each other, and still less to be what our children expect from us, what the husband expects from the wife, what the wife expects from the husband. And so more and more we are out of our homes and less and less in touch with each other.

October 2

God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.

October 1

Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, the spirit of prayer and sacrifice.