None have ever said following Christ is easy. It starts off with self-denial, sacrifice. It all begins with 1 John 3:11 – love one another. Love the people God has put around you. Hold them dear, even when they push you away. Be devoted to their welfare, even if they seem indifferent to yours. Hope […]
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“Jesus teaches us that the commandments are not to be understood as a minimum limit we should not exceed, but rather as an open path leading to a moral and spiritual way of perfection, whose most intimate impulse is love” – John Paul II
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My child, do not forget My teachings, take to heart My commands. For many days, and years of life, and peace, will they bring you. Do not let love and fidelity forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. Then will you win favor and esteem before God and
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. – G. K. Chesterton.
“At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.” – Hebrews 12:11 Discipline brings the promise of greater peace and contentment because it helps us become more of the person God has created us
Because of the fall of man, the world we live in is destine to undermine our trust in God. Any pleasure from things of this world is only a temporary happiness or (false) security before it passes away. When we get attached to something not of God, fear results and fear stalks us constantly; (the
Only the asceticism of Christian chastity purifies and disciplines love so that it rises above the sensual sphere to become a truly personal act of self-giving.
The Lord sees when we are regularly fasting for a prayer intention. He sees that our prayers are serious. He knows that we want it enough to make a sacrifice for it.
The Kingdom of God: a way of relating to one another that brings healing and freedom. You will know you’re in the Kingdom when: forgiveness replaces revenge, service replaces being served, sacrificial love replaces bondage to self.
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Spend five minutes each day imagining what heaven is like. Contemplate the Kingdom of Heaven, comfort, inheriting the land, satisfaction of seeing justice, receiving mercy, seeing God, being a child of God…
