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Here are this week’s must-reads:
+ “As we get older, sometimes we let voices other than God’s begin to narrate our lives. My own life has never been flawless. For many years I allowed critical voices from family and friends dictate how I viewed myself and my story… (But) When we begin to weigh others’ words more heavily than God’s Word, we begin to rehearse narratives about our lives that may not be true…” — Sally Clarkson
+ Jesus to St. Faustina (Diary 921): “My daughter… Why do you not tell Me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know that this will give Me great joy.”
+ This weekend (Fri & Sat), we’ll celebrate two major feast days back to back, the feast of the Sacred & Immaculate hearts.
+ “Lord, when in circumstances I’d not choose for myself, grant me a heart open to receive all You have for me there. Amen.” — Jennifer Scheuermann, Early AM Coffee with Jesus
+ “Waiting isn’t a pause in your life — it is your life. The question is: will you live while you wait?” — DawnChere Wilkerson
+ “I used to think joy would come when my life finally looked right. It came when I started looking at it differently… I stopped chasing the life I didn’t have and started appreciating the life I did.” — Lindsey Prell
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+ “Our Lord sends neither Angels nor ministers to assure us of His love: He comes in person.” —St. Peter Julian Eymard
+ “The Psalms are full of real, raw expressions of distress. Anxiety. Sadness. Confusion. Loneliness. Hopelessness. Despair. It’s all there—prayed, sung, and offered to God. God didn’t edit the Psalmists’ pain out of Scripture. He welcomed it. He called it worship. He made it holy. Instead of judging their emotions, God preserved their words—so we’d know our pain belongs in his presence too.” — Soul Shepherding
+ “Proverbs 3:5-6 // Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths.” God has all of your times and seasons in His hands. Trust that He will work all of this for your good and His glory.” — Amy Klutinoty
+ “The Mass is our secret and stable source of peace. During the consecration we are invited to give our intentions, as well as our burdens to the Lord. Jesus as High Priest receives our offerings, just as he receives and consecrates ordinary bread and wine. During this moment of the Mass, we can not only name, but also entrust to Jesus your concerns.. Our stress or anxieties don’t simply “vanish;” often, they move us to action. We need to “do something” with the interior movements we feel. The liturgy is a sacred encounter where we can come before Our Heavenly Father and ask Him to care for us, to intervene for us, and to beg the grace we need to make us and the responses of our hearts new.
“Joined to Jesus’ Eucharistic Sacrifice, you are bringing the “ordinary” aspects of your life, and allowing them in faith to become an offering to God. Bring Jesus the person or situation, the feeling or the burden you carry. Your offering joined to Christ’s will not be unchanged. In communion with Christ, our crosses become a place of intimacy, love and life. ” — CFR Franciscans
+ Something I’ve been learning about waiting in 1 Samuel: “Hannah worshiped before the promise. She worshipped amid the waiting… Worship isn’t only on the days where things feel good… It carries us through these seasons of long-waiting. Worship keeps our eyes on the One who holds it all together. There is power when we worship before we receive the promise.” — Allyson Golden
+ “In the Sacred Heart every treasure of wisdom and knowledge is hidden. In that Divine Heart beats God’s infinite love for everyone, for each one of us individually.” (St. JP II)
+ St. John the Baptist is known for his humility. “John said: One mightier than I is coming.” (Lk 3:16) // The Catechism says humility is the foundation of prayer, and we know that prayer is a relationship with God. So John the Baptist shows us this way of growing closer to the Lord by acknowledging who He is and who we are: He is our good and merciful Father, and we belong to Him.
+ “Marriage is a school for virtue, where patience, forgiveness, and love are learned and practiced daily. It is a divine workshop where two souls are forged into one, in the image of Christ.” — St. Theodore
More Finds in this week’s Newsletter, which you can read through here.
