Posted on 02/20/2007 6:14:51 PM PST by Salvation
Tuesday, First Week of Lent |
"Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This is how you are to pray: Our Father...." (Matthew 6:8-9)
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Wednesday, First Week of Lent |
"For at the preaching of Jonah they reformed, but you have a greater than Jonah here." (Luke 11:32) Reflection. "Go through the world unnoticed if you can. Secret privations, secret sacrifices of your own will, which will never be known until all things are revealed, are surer instruments of perfection than chains and shirts of hair." ...Fr. Lasance Lenten Fact The original period of Lent was 40 hours. It was spent fasting to commemorate the suffering of Christ and the 40 hours He spent in the tomb. In the early 3rd century, Lent was lengthened to 6 days. About 800 AD it was changed to 40 days. Lenten Action. Plant a seed or bulb and watch it develop through the spring. Pray for your own spiritual growth. Prayer O Jesus, humbled to abjection for me, teach me to humble myself for love of You. |
Thursday, First Week of Lent |
"Ask, and you will receive. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you." (Matthew 7:7)
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Friday, First Week of Lent The Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. |
"Unless your holiness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees you shall not enter the kingdom of God." (Matthew 5:20)
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Saturday, First Week of Lent |
"If you love those who love you, what merit is there in that?" (Matthew 5:46)
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Sunday, Second Week of Lent |
He was transfigured before their eyes and his clothes became dazzlingly white. (Mark 9:2-3)
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Monday, Second Week of Lent |
"Be compassionate, as your Father is compassionate." (Luke 6:36)
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Tuesday, Second Week of Lent |
Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord. (Isaiah 1:18)
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Wednesday, Second Week of Lent |
"Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest." (Matthew 20:27)
Deny oneself Carry one's cross To follow Jesus Christ If you are ashamed of the Cross of Jesus Christ he will be ashamed of you before his Father Love the Cross Desire: crosses contempt pain abuse insults disgrace persecution humiliations calumnies illness injuries May Jesus prevail May his Cross prevail Divine love Humility Submission Patience Obedience: complete prompt joyful blind persevering .....St. Louis de Montfort
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Thursday, Second Week of Lent |
"At his gate lay a beggar named Lazarus." (Luke 16:20)
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Friday, Second Week of Lent Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. |
Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age. (Genesis 37:3)
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Saturday, Second Week of Lent |
"Let us eat and celebrate because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life." (Luke 15:23-24)
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Monday, Third Week of Lent |
"Go and wash...and your flesh will heal." (2 Kings 5:10)
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Tuesday, Third Week of Lent |
"Lord, when my brother wrongs me, how often must I forgive him?" (Matthew 18:21) He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph's wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying 'Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord.'..... Saint Bernardine of Siena
Gracious Saint Joseph, |
Wednesday, Third Week of Lent
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"Take care...not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen." (Deuteronomy 4:9)
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Thursday, Third Week of Lent
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"If it is by the finger of God that I cast out devils, then the reign of God is upon you." (Luke 11:20)
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Friday, Third Week of Lent
Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. |
"You shall love the Lord your God." (Mark 12:30)
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Saturday, Third Week of Lent
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"O God, be merciful to me a sinner!" (Luke 18:13)
Suppose one has forgiven an injury and experienced reconciliation with the injurer--a process of two distinct stages. In such situations, it is not helpful to repeatedly bring our remembrance of the injury into the relationship. Discretion and a willingness to let the past be the past are called for, for the sake of the relationship--call this a type of "forgetting" if you will.
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Sunday, Fourth Week of Lent |
"So must the Son of Man be lifted up, that all who believe may have eternal life in Him." (John 3:14,15)
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Monday, Forth Week of Lent
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I am about to create new heavens and a new earth. (Isaiah 65:17)
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