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hofelina · « **Reply #760 on:** March 08, 2010, 06:00:24 PM »

Strive For Virtue

Resolve never to give up praying and striving for virtue, no matter how many times you fall.

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hofelina · « **Reply #761 on:** March 09, 2010, 03:19:50 PM »

Footprints

During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.

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hofelina · « **Reply #762 on:** March 10, 2010, 07:25:10 AM »

Renewed Faith

My faith may get a little tattered and ragged at the edges, but then he touches me ever so gently and with faith aglow and joy in my soulâ€”gently I take up my cross and go through.

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hofelina · « **Reply #763 on:** March 11, 2010, 05:44:48 PM »

The Work of our Lifetime

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #764 on:** March 12, 2010, 01:56:42 AM »

The Work of our Lifetime

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

Amen!

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hofelina · « **Reply #765 on:** March 12, 2010, 06:23:15 PM »

Rebirth in Christ

If birth is so important that it marks a major touchstone every year, shouldnâ€™t our rebirth in Christ be even more important?

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hofelina · « **Reply #766 on:** March 13, 2010, 03:51:59 PM »

Minute Meditations
Life of Faith

We sustain our love by growing older in close company with the object of our love. This is true of marriage, and itâ€™s true of our life of faith.

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hofelina · « **Reply #767 on:** March 15, 2010, 05:52:08 PM »

Open Your Heart

How important it is to avoid being upset by the trials and troubles of this life, for these things always tend to contract the heart rather than opening it up to trust God.

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hofelina · « **Reply #768 on:** March 16, 2010, 06:38:40 AM »

Freedom to Choose

God leaves us free to accept or reject his love, and we make that choice every day, building on the choice we made the day before.

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hofelina · « **Reply #769 on:** March 16, 2010, 03:43:41 PM »

Spiritual Growth

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

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hofelina · « **Reply #770 on:** March 17, 2010, 08:07:18 PM »

Humility

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue itâ€”and the more we seem to acquire itâ€”the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one.

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hofelina · « **Reply #771 on:** March 18, 2010, 06:19:42 PM »

Serve God With All Your Heart

I recommend to you to have a firm and general proposal to always serve God with all your heart; do not worry about tomorrow.

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chicogon · « **Reply #772 on:** March 18, 2010, 11:46:10 PM »

Somebody shared this with me today...

A Heart at Peace

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones"
(Proverbs 14:30, NIV)

Did you know the best thing you can do for health is to set your heart at peace with God? Peace is such a powerful position. It is a position of life and strength. Peace literally means "to set at one again." In other words, we have peace when our minds and hearts are in alignment with the Word of God.

It's so easy to let the pressures and distractions of life pull our thoughts away from the Father. It doesn't take long before we are so focused on earthly things that we feel overwhelmed and all stressed out. But, we weren't meant to live anxious about life, we were meant to live in peace.

Today, choose to keep your heart at peace by staying focused on God the Father. Give life to your body by staying in agreement with Him. Let His peace guard your heart so that you can be equipped to live the abundant life He has promised to you!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word which is life to my soul. I praise You because You are the Prince of Peace and give peace to my heart and mind. I choose to stay focused on You today. Thank You for guiding my every step. In Jesus' Name. Amen

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hofelina · « **Reply #773 on:** March 19, 2010, 03:26:20 PM »

Pleasing God

To love God as He commands is to give of ourselves to please Him without conditions.

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hofelina · « **Reply #774 on:** March 20, 2010, 03:26:43 PM »

Spiritual Fruit

The fruits are the last things to appear on a tree, so it will take you time to develop these as you grow in the spiritual life. â€“St. Thomas Aquinas

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hofelina · « **Reply #775 on:** March 21, 2010, 04:03:25 PM »

Surrender For Love

To love someone often means to surrender our will to their good, and that is where the cross begins

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hofelina · « **Reply #776 on:** March 22, 2010, 02:53:43 PM »

Complete Trust

The more numerous your enemies become, the more you ought to abandon yourself with complete trust in the Lord. He will always sustain you with his powerful arm so that you may not stumble.

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hofelina · « **Reply #777 on:** March 23, 2010, 03:29:57 PM »

Mortify Our Selfish Spirit

Let us take care to mortify our selfish spirit which puffs us up, makes us impulsive, and leads to aridity of the soul.

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hofelina · « **Reply #778 on:** March 24, 2010, 05:55:19 AM »

Seek His Guidance

Raise your mind to the Lord and implore him to guide your mind himself, to speak to your heart and move your will.

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hofelina · « **Reply #779 on:** March 25, 2010, 03:28:34 PM »

Desire of Imitation

Each day we must think on the life of the One we intend to take as our model. From reflection is born esteem for his acts, and from esteem springs the desire of imitation.

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hofelina · « **Reply #780 on:** March 26, 2010, 03:11:05 PM »

Hope in God

Do not anticipate the problems of this life with apprehension, but rather with a perfect hope that God, to whom you belong, will free you from them accordingly.

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hofelina · « **Reply #781 on:** March 27, 2010, 03:21:56 PM »

Meditation

Meditation is a means to rise to God, but not an end. The final purpose of meditation is the love of God and oneâ€™s neighbor.

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hofelina · « **Reply #782 on:** March 28, 2010, 03:13:24 PM »

Purification of the Soul

The more you are afflicted the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire of tribulation the soul will become pure gold, worthy to shine in the heavenly palace.

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hofelina · « **Reply #783 on:** March 29, 2010, 04:51:13 PM »

Talents are Gifts

Wonderful Creator, you have gifted me with many talents. So often I see those talents as â€œmineâ€ and use them for my own purposes. Help me recognize that you have given me these gifts for a deeper purpose.

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hofelina · « **Reply #784 on:** March 30, 2010, 05:14:44 PM »

Unexpected Encounters

Jesus, Living Water, help me trust the surprising and unexpected ways that I encounter you. My thirst brings me to desert places where you are the stranger at the well.

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hofelina · « **Reply #785 on:** March 31, 2010, 05:10:23 PM »

Redemptive Love

Give me the grace both to recognize that only your redemptive love will fulfill my deepest thirst and to open myself to that love. In my thirst I turn to you.

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hofelina · « **Reply #786 on:** April 01, 2010, 02:39:39 PM »

Trust God's Plan for Us

God takes us outside of our comfort zone, outside the scope of our acquired wisdom, and asks us to trust Him because He has a plan to use us for the building of His kingdom.

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hofelina · « **Reply #787 on:** April 03, 2010, 06:00:46 PM »

Hear the Gospel Message

Every Christian needs to turn away from what the world says is most important for our happiness and to turn toward what the Gospel says is most important.

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hofelina · « **Reply #788 on:** April 04, 2010, 05:25:52 PM »

Serving Christ

When we are serving and we are doing it for Christ, we need to be able to see His face in those we are serving.

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hofelina · « **Reply #789 on:** April 05, 2010, 01:33:35 PM »

The Call to Love Others

The call to love canâ€™t be answered by loving a project, or your work, or even a community from a general perspective. It needs to be answered by loving a person.

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hofelina · « **Reply #790 on:** April 07, 2010, 07:19:02 AM »

God's Great Mercy

The only way to break through lifelong patterns of unforgiveness is to take timeâ€”daily for a whileâ€”and reflect on all God has forgiven you.

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hofelina · « **Reply #791 on:** April 08, 2010, 05:37:40 AM »

Holy Spirit, Lead Me

Come, Holy Spirit, teach me, lead me. Give me your courage, your wisdom, your peace. With these I will be wealthy beyond price.

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hofelina · « **Reply #792 on:** April 09, 2010, 02:24:26 PM »

Thank You God!

The highest compliment we can pay God is to tell Him we are eternally grateful for what He has done in creating and saving us and that we want to become like Him following the path He has marked out for us.

ps

Have a nice weekend folks!

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hofelina · « **Reply #793 on:** April 10, 2010, 09:29:48 PM »

Love from the Heart

It is only from the depth of the heart that a real relationship with Jesus can arise.

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hofelina · « **Reply #794 on:** April 11, 2010, 03:34:08 PM »

Seeing Him Through You

The ordinary way I encounter Jesus today is through encountering members of his Church.

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hofelina · « **Reply #795 on:** April 12, 2010, 02:48:16 PM »

We Are Not Alone

As Jesus commended himself into his Fatherâ€™s hands at the cross, so the Church is in the hands of Jesus. He is with us, and He holds us; we are not alone.

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hofelina · « **Reply #796 on:** April 13, 2010, 02:29:01 PM »

We Are All One

We are members of one body, we follow Christ in and through our unity, and so we receive the same correction and the same fatherly direction. We are on the road together.

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hofelina · « **Reply #797 on:** April 14, 2010, 07:00:06 AM »

The Nature of His Love

The very things that we are most ashamed of are the things that lead us to Jesus. That He loves me in my weakness is what makes me marvel at the nature of His love.

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hofelina · « **Reply #798 on:** April 15, 2010, 02:39:48 PM »

Trust in His Love

The victor will not be the one who relies on his own power but the one who entrusts himself completely to the love of Jesus Christ and who accepts His tender pity.

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hofelina · « **Reply #799 on:** April 16, 2010, 02:28:45 PM »

His Immense Tenderness

It is not my strength but rather my weakness that draws me to Him. To deny my own weakness is to deny His expressions of tenderness toward me.

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