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History Not Always Repeats Itself
Challenge: Offer to God today the sacrifice necessary to change something in your behavior that might be an obstacle for someone else coming to know Christ better.
Challenge: Offer to God today the sacrifice necessary to change something in your behavior that might be an obstacle for someone else coming to know Christ better.
The Grumpy Catholics Guild
Challenge: If you find yourself thinking critically about someone today, pray for this person.
Challenge: If you find yourself thinking critically about someone today, pray for this person.
October 15 -- Saint Theresa of Avila
Virgin, Foundress of the Discalced Carmelites, Doctor of the Church
Virgin, Foundress of the Discalced Carmelites, Doctor of the Church
Holy Gospel: October 16
"Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.” (Luke 11: 47-54)
"Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.” (Luke 11: 47-54)
Holy Gospel: October 15
“Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God." (Luke 11: 42-46)
“Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God." (Luke 11: 42-46)
Laws that Bind or Free
Challenge: If there is a rule or custom of the Church that you don’t understand or don’t practice, study it to understand better how it frees you and guides you in your relationship with Christ.
Challenge: If there is a rule or custom of the Church that you don’t understand or don’t practice, study it to understand better how it frees you and guides you in your relationship with Christ.
The Queen, the Ninevites and Me
Challenge: At some point today offer a prayer of thanksgiving. Be grateful to Christ for the blessings received over the past few days.
Challenge: At some point today offer a prayer of thanksgiving. Be grateful to Christ for the blessings received over the past few days.
The Banquet Is Prepared!
Challenge: Respond to God’s love today, accept willingly any difficulty or hardship that comes your way.
Challenge: Respond to God’s love today, accept willingly any difficulty or hardship that comes your way.
Happy Being a Woman
The truly fulfilled woman is one who loves and is loved in return, one who gives completely of herself to her husband, her children, and to society
The truly fulfilled woman is one who loves and is loved in return, one who gives completely of herself to her husband, her children, and to society
Be an Instrument of God
Father Nicolás Schwizer teaches that true piety consists in dependence on God and that our weaknesses should be like a force which pushes us into the arms of God.
Father Nicolás Schwizer teaches that true piety consists in dependence on God and that our weaknesses should be like a force which pushes us into the arms of God.
The Christian Understanding of Authority and Obedience
Father Nicolás Schwizer explains how God placed authority on the level of service and that love proves its authenticity in obedience.
Father Nicolás Schwizer explains how God placed authority on the level of service and that love proves its authenticity in obedience.
Hearing and Doing
Challenge: Be courageous in your fidelity to your conscience – that inner sanctuary where God speaks to you. In your conversations and human relations, represent the values of your faith and not cave in to peer pressure, whether at home, in school or in the workplace.
Challenge: Be courageous in your fidelity to your conscience – that inner sanctuary where God speaks to you. In your conversations and human relations, represent the values of your faith and not cave in to peer pressure, whether at home, in school or in the workplace.
Housekeeping
Challenge: Be attentive to the fact that you are a dwelling of God and look to do what is worthy of that dignity. Specifically, be attentive to the thoughts that pass through your mind and the words that cross your lips today.
Challenge: Be attentive to the fact that you are a dwelling of God and look to do what is worthy of that dignity. Specifically, be attentive to the thoughts that pass through your mind and the words that cross your lips today.
More Powerful than Friendship
Challenge: Be attentive to the needs of those around you and pray insistently for God to bless a particular need. Ask for the Holy Spirit for yourself.
Challenge: Be attentive to the needs of those around you and pray insistently for God to bless a particular need. Ask for the Holy Spirit for yourself.
Learning to Pray from the Master
Challenge: Ask Christ to teach you how to pray. Strive to imitate him in your posture and in your attitude towards prayer.
Challenge: Ask Christ to teach you how to pray. Strive to imitate him in your posture and in your attitude towards prayer.
Holy Gospel: October 11
"Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” (Luke 11: 27-28)
"Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” (Luke 11: 27-28)
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