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Here are this week’s must-reads:
+ “We are the sacristans of the domestic church. This is why all the dishes and laundry you do is not unseen in the eyes of God… Recently I realized my family spends most of our time together at the dining room table. Just as our Lord comes physically present on the altar at mass, I could feel the Holy Spirit coming fully alive at the altar table of our home. It was the table of the domestic church. It was there that my children gathered, memorizing prayers and learning about their faith. Suddenly all the laundry and preparation of food felt sacred. I was preparing my home for my children to receive and know Christ within our home. The Holy Spirit wanted to be alive in our home. Cleaning became… well… much more beautiful to me.
“Jesus spent the first 30 years of his life within the domestic church. He shows with his life how important the family and home truly is. As we clothe our children, and decorate for the seasons, and wash the dishes after each meal… we start to know. We are custodians of beauty within our home. We are the sacristans of the domestic church. We are preparing for Christ to come alive within our space.” — Leanne Bowen
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+ “God comunicates differently to me than he communicates to you. I like to say we all have different spiritual temperaments, just like we all have different personalities… ” — CFR
+ “Does my prayer time look more like: reaching, arranging, collecting, planning, doing, performing? Or am I emptying and receiving?” — Early AM Coffee with Jesus
+ “Every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to take your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No, this is what’s important.” — Lain Thomas
+ “The rosary sometimes gets a bad rap for being “too focused on Mary,” but the reality is that this couldn’t be further from the truth. The rosary, first and foremost, uses holy repetitive prayer (not to be confused with “vain repetition”) as a tool to meditate on the mysteries of the life of Christ.
“We walk with Mary through her pregnancy & birth of Christ and the early years of His life in the Joyful Mysteries; we see His preaching and ministry through the Luminous Mysteries. We journey to the foot of the Cross with Mary in the Sorrowful Mysteries; and we rejoice in His Resurrection, marvel at His Ascension, and witness the beginning of His Church in the Glorious Mysteries. The rosary is deeply, deeply biblical as Pope St. John Paul II points out… It’s an incredible prayer tool, and because it’s a meditation on the life of Christ, we can gain many powerful graces through praying it.” — Cecilia Blackwell
+ “Padre Pio can be really intimidating. But the reason he was canonized was not because he had the stigmata or could read souls or bilocate — or anything like that. The great thing about Padre Pio was that he loved Jesus passionately and he wanted to be as close to Jesus as he [possibly could. His life was a life totally given for others. The mystery of redemptive suffering that Padre Pio lived in such a radical way — there’s an invitation for us in our own little sufferings… it doesn’t have to be the stigmata. Really little things can be a pathway to uniting ourselves to the paschal mystery, and Padre Pio is a guide to living our own experience of the paschal mystery in little ways.” — CFR
Here are the fashion finds
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