Here is a good exercise for Lent:
When confronted with the sinfulness of a behavior that you consider part and parcel of your identity and modus operandi, how do you react?
Do you rationalize and ignore it, making excuses and changing the subject?
Or do you confront it with prayer and effort to change it?
Be honest with yourself as:
He who rejects admonition despises his own soul, but he who heeds reproof gains understanding. Proverbs 15:32
That's me away.
Living our faith in plain and humble service to Jesus, Our Lord and Savior ... ORA ET LABORA +++ Sentire cum Ecclesia (to think and to feel with the Church)
Rejoice in hope; endure in affliction; persevere in prayer. Romans 12:12
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
St. John Paul II
I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it. (Habeo granum sinapis quod uti non timeo)
Pope Benedict XVI
But I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing, direct murder by the mother herself."
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
2 comments:
Thank you for this reminder!!
Wishing you a blessed Holy Lent.
Mel
You are so very wise. This is a great reminder. Have a blessed Lent.
On another note, do you have a favorite place to buy your dresses? Or a favorite pattern? I am thinking of adding more dresses so that I can use them for work also. Thanks
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