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Fear Silence?
"Isn’t it a shame that we live in a society that so fears silence. We turn the radios on in our rooms, the TVs on in our dens, the stereos on in our cars, and when we are not near any of these places, we plug iPods into our ears—anything to avoid silence. Yet silence itself is the language of God! I’ll let you in on something I just recently learned: set aside a…
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Prayer
Faithfulness Over Quantity
"There is a risk of taking on more than one could handle and end up discouraged. A relatively short time (twenty minutes or half an hour), spent faithfully on mental prayer every day, is better than two hours now and then." page 84 This is a gentle reminder that faithfulness beats quantity. A moment in prayer daily beats hours of prayer that leads to dis…
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St. Therese's Mission of Love
"She had wanted to have all vocations, because she wanted to love Jesus to the point of madness and serve the Church in all possible ways. The breadth of her desires tormented her. She found peace of soul only when she realized, with the help of Scripture, that the greatest service she could render the Church, one that contained all others in itself, was to keep…
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Wound of Love
"Above all, mental prayer ultimately consists of keeping this wound of love open, preventing it from healing over. Here is yet another guide to what we should do in prayer. When the smarting of the wound becomes less keen through routine, laziness, and loss of our first love, then we need to take action, wake up, stir up the heart and stimulate it to love by m…
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Learn Everything Else
"When you meet a wise person, listen to him and you will learn wisdom; when you meet a foolish person, listen to him and you will learn patience; when you are alone, listen to God, and you will learn everything else." Phil sent me this recently. I thought it was a handy little image and wanted to share it with you. When it comes to the Word, we must realiz…
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Books Read: August 2023 Edition
An Exorcist Tells His Story by Fr. Gabriele Amorth Living with the Monks by Jesse Itzler Brick by Brick by David Robertson Lego Ninjago Season 11 by William N. Andrews Lego Ninjago School for Crooks by Meredith Rusu Friends 2 by Lego Friends Friends 1 by Lego Friends The Lego Story by Jens Andersen Learning Humility by Richard J. Foster Inheritance by Katharine McG…
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Prayer
Thirst for the Beloved
"Experience shows that to pray well and to be brought to the state of passive prayer in which God and the soul communicate in depth, the heart must be pierced—pierced, that is, by the love of God, wounded by thirst for the Beloved. Only through such a wound can prayer truly descend into the heart and lodge there. God must touch us at such a deep level of our b…
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