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Here are this week’s must-reads:
“I have spent too many years trying to prove my worth by doing more, being more, achieving more. But every time I measure myself by the world’s standards, I come up empty. Jesus reminds me that true greatness isn’t about being first, but about serving with love, even when no one sees…” — Mary Lenaburg
+ “The next time we’re doing chores, we can remember that God does them too. He never tires of caring for His world and His children in a multitude of tiny, daily, ordinary provisions. When we do the same for our world, or for our (husbands) and children, we reflect the work and provision and faithful love of our Maker and Savior. There’s nothing insignificant about that.” — Seth Lewis, Risen Motherhood
+ “May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love…” — St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
+ Praying the Rosary makes me think of Lent“. It’s so easy for your mind to wander. To consider what to make for dinner. Who you needed to text back. Your plans for the rest of the week. And every time these distractions come up, you just try again. You go back to the Mystery, you re-focus on the prayer. You return. Again and again. You wander, you return. It’s like a little moment of Lent that can strengthen your ability to return once you realize you drifted.
“Even now, return to me with your whole heart.”
Even now — when you’re distracted.
Even now — when you’re grieved.
Even now — when you’re tired.
He’s always inviting you back, lovingly. Into His heart and into His life. Look at this Lent through the lens of His love, asking you to stay near.
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+ Love that this is a saint quote 😉 “I would like to know the defects of the saints and what they did to correct these defects. That would help me much more than hearing about their miracles and ecstasies.” — St. Bernadette
+ “Before you make any Lenten plans, go read Ephesians 3:14-21. The goal is “to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Keep the big picture and the end goal front and center and don’t get so bogged down in details…” — Stephanie Weinert
+ There are so many options of things to do for Lent, but here’s one way to look at the season and discern what to do — consider it all through the Scripture of Jesus entering Martha’s home (Luke 10:38). Jesus is glad — perhaps even comforted — with how Mary sits at His feet and listens to Him. These two things — sitting with Him and listening. I think that’s a good place to start with Lent. From there, whatever you decide to do can become an offering of love in response to His.
+ One way we can begin Lent is with the end in mind: Easter, which reminds us that because of Jesus, death is not the end of the story. Sin and suffering is not the end. The Resurrection is. The Lord wants life for us — abundant life, and that is life with Him. So as you walk into the desert during Lent, you can trust the Lord. He can bring new life into your life and into your circumstances.
+ “God is calling you to serve him in and from the ordinary…There is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.“ –St. Josemaría Escrivá
+ “St. Catherine of Siena was a holy woman who dedicated her life to God, giving everything she had to him. While it might seem that her style of holiness is unreachable, she in fact used many ordinary activities to draw closer to God. She turned even the littlest thing, like cooking, into a deep and intense prayer to her Heavenly Father…
“Typically we think of praying as reciting a set of prayers, such as the Rosary. As a result, if we want to pray in the kitchen, we need to be praying the Rosary, or some other prayer that is already written out. However, St. Catherine of Siena was able to pray in the kitchen without saying any words at all… In particular, St. Catherine of Siena thought of her work in the kitchen as if she was in her Heavenly Father’s kitchen.
“St. Francis de Sales wrote: ” Her meditations would take the shape of imagining that all she prepared for her father was prepared for Our Lord, as by Martha; her mother was a symbol to her of Our Lady, her brothers of the Apostles, and thus she mentally ministered to all the Heavenly Courts, fulfilling her humble ministrations with an exceeding sweetness, because she saw God’s Will in each.” — Philip Kosloscki
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