"We won't know ourselves unless we know Him, because as St. Paul explained to the Romans: God decided beforehand those who were destined to be formed in the image of the Son—and that’s us (Rom.8:29)."
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The psalms were a source of comfort and faith for the people of the Old Testament, who sang them in both good times and bad, and passed them down through the generations. Jesus prayed them too. At Mass, we continue this tradition and remember the perseverance and faith of those who came before us.
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Sometimes when we're trying to pray, we might feel like we're not good enough or important enough for God to care about. But that's just a temptation, it's also an insult to God who created us and loves us as we are. When we're thinking that way, we're not really turning our minds towards God but towards ourselves, instead of remembering that God's promise is to answer us when we call on Him. We would do good to remember that Jesus showed us through His actions that He cares for everyone, no matter how insignificant we might feel, so when we feel like we're too miserable to pray, we should turn to Him and ask Him to heal us too. He's waiting for us to ask.
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When we feel like a candle burning in an empty room, we find out that our loneliness is God’s gift to
us, telling us that all of us are for each other
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hope nudges me to take flight.
Never again will I be the same;
because my heart is a blazing flame.
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"Forgiveness is a process that takes time... Forgiveness is a grace..." -
-Fr. Tony Rauschuber, S.J. (Adapted from The Art of Forgiveness)
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In search of happiness? Joy? Perhaps the greatest place to begin looking is in your own life. Is there anything you could be grateful for today?
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Not a Complex manual, a Simple Picture.
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Loving yourself? Well, if you put God first, you’re loving yourself because we are created to love God, and loving Him leads to eternal life.
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Our times demand that we imitate Christ, not that we live for ourselves.
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Forgiving myself might not be the best way of going about forgiving myself, but instead replacing that self-despair with the blessed assurance of God’s Love for me.
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There are many Purposes we can choose for our lives, they are not all the same.
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We can be simply Okay, given the circumstances or cruise above the circumstances.
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Jesus’ shortest parable is about the old and the new. We learn from Jesus so we can live it out.
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Ordinary Time does not mean unimportant or not special. Ordinary Time could be a continued chance to receive “extraordinary grace”. Ordinary time proclaims that “There’s more to come”.
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“Jesus also knew, and we learn, that the Commandments guide us to personal fulfillment… We don’t outlive the Commandments. We obey them because we love Him. This is both our personal fulfillment and abiding in His love.”
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Hear in your mind a beautiful, harmonious harp. That harmony, as Hildegard of Bingen pointed out, reminds us of God creating everything in all the universes to fit harmoniously with everything else.
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Whether we know it or not, each of us has an unconscious question lying just beneath the surface. It's that question we bring to our parents, friends, family, co-workers, teachers, bosses, and most people important to us.
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I have found it helpful to distinguish between living a life of Purpose and a life of Meaning. Let’s define each and explore tools we can expand on in the future.
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