The daily life of a servant of Jesus, is a work of faith, requiring gracious strength of heart, decision of will and character, and much resolvedness of purpose. I will go forth in the strength of the Lord (said a Saint of old), for in His strength only, as he well knew to have added, can I be strong. Look to Him then to go forth with you, day by day, into the world, and to add fresh grace to grace already received. Keep in remembrance through the day, your resolutions and vows of the morning. Especially watch against being dazzled by this world's vain allurements. Let them not prevail to turn you aside from the path of upright Christian duty. Beware of its delusive dreams taking hold of your mind and affections. By your baptism you renounced it, and as a professed Catholic Christian, you are already separate from it. Keep yourself separate, if not in your worldly calling and duties of life, in the dispositions of your heart. Bear in mind that you are to stand forth in daily life before others, in your duties, trials, and recreations, with the cross of Christ laid on you. It is a blessed distinction to be a soldier of the Cross, but it involves duties and trials, watchfulness and self denial, in common and little matters, as well as in rarer and greater. Often lift up your heart to your heavenly Father, for grace, amid worldly labour, when you are called to it; for an unworldly heart, amid earthly joys, if you have them, and for a spirit of self denial at all times. If any man will come unto me, said Jesus, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp