Not Happy
To sin is to tend swine. It will not make us happy see: Luke 15:11-32
Teach me Love
Lord, I feel that I deserve to be condemned because of my inability to love. Grant me the grace to love You, and then, give me any affliction You please. Morning Meditations ( Friday – Second Week of Lent ) Saint Alphonsus of Liguori
Deny Desires
The Lord brings His servants to eternal life by mortification; but the devil leads sinners to everlasting death by pleasure and self-indulgence. Spiritual Readings ( Interior mortification – 2 ) Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Conquer self-love
Conquer self-love and break down your own will…What does it profit us to mortify the exterior senses and to perform exercises of devotion while at the same time we cherish in our hearts rancour, ambition, attachment to self-will and to self-esteem, or any other passion which brings ruin on the soul? Spiritual Readings ( Interior
God Twiddling His Thumbs *
God Twiddling His Thumbs * God waits for the sinner that he may amend. Know you not that the Lord has borne with you till now, not that you may continue to offend Him, but that you may weep over the evil you have done. Morning Meditations ( Thursday – First Week of Lent )
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Forgiveness
It’s for the sake of God‘s grace, our soul, our living, that we let go of our unforgiving. read: Matthew 6:14,15
I Desire Mercy
Sacrifice yourselves to God, sacrifice every day and at every moment by showing mercy to “the least”. Joyfully take Christ’s place on the cross if it be God’s will. In the Corporal Works of Mercy we are in contact with Christ through our brethren who need to be fed, sheltered, clothed, visited or buried.
Pleasing the Senses
Lust loses its heat through spareness of food and drink. Meditations for Lent ( Fasting: Thursday after Quinquasegima ) Saint Thomas Aquinas
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