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“Love does not calculate, does not measure, does not worry about expense, does not set up barriers but can give joyfully; it seeks only the good of the other, surmounts meanness, pettiness, resentment and the narrow-mindedness that human beings sometimes harbor in their hearts.” (Benedict XVI)

“Feelings, nothing more than feelings / Trying to forget my feelings…” It is important to remember two principles about feelings. They are NOT the infallible compass of our spiritual lives. Their absence does not mean that Our Lord is abandoning us.

Lord, grant me the grace to dance before you, like King David did, with joy-filled abandon (you may want to send the Holy Spirit to give me dancing lessons too).

Is Heaven the goal or the reward? Perhaps our goal should be supreme happiness (beatitude) in this life.

Today’s ubiquitous lotteries make it possible for even the poorest person to potentially “gain the whole world.” A person doesn’t have to win the lottery to “destroy himself.” He only has to want to gain it. “Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and a trap. They are letting themselves be captured

“busy” is NOT a virtue.

Heavenly Father, take from me everything that distances me from you, grant me everything that brings me closer to you, please detach me from myself to give my all to you.       *

N.C.C.A. “BLUE BOOK” AN ANTHOLOGY Reverend Edward Dowling, S.J. The Queen’s Work, St. Louis, Missouri Brooklyn, 1953 I think that if our positions were reversed, you would feel as I do — grateful to be the focus of good will. I think that is true of anybody who speaks at an A.A. gathering, or about

The novena in honor of the Holy Spirit is the oldest of all novenas since it was first made at the direction of Our Lord Himself when He sent His apostles back to Jerusalem to await the coming of the Holy Spirit on the first Pentecost. It is still the only novena officially prescribed by