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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Sunday, June 5, 2022

6 Saints who endured crippling poverty

https://aleteia.org/2020/05/02/6-saints-who-endured-crippling-poverty/

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

DIVINE INTIMACY - Carmelite Spirituality - by Fr. Gabriele di Santa Maria Maddalena / Published: 1 January 1900 AD

To imitate Jesus' humility perfectly, we must share in His hidden life, veiling, as He did, everything in us that might attract attention or praise from others, whatever might single us out or make us noticed, fleeing as far as we are able from every mark of distinction. "Ama nesciri et pro nihilo reputare", love to live unknown and reputed as nothing ('Imitation of Christ'-Ch.1: 2-3); by doing this we will become more like Jesus who, being God, willed to take "the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man" (Philippians 2). Jesus himself has taught us how to practice the hidden life, insisting that we do our good works in secret, only to please God, and without ostentation. He tells us also to guard the secret of our interior life and our relations with Him (Matthew 6)~

Friday, May 27, 2022

Friday, May 20, 2022

St Joseph Beads

St Joseph Beads: 

St Joseph beads (Seven sets of 8 beads):
+On each set of 8 beads pray~
1 Hail Mary
7 Our Fathers
1 Glory Be 
~and reflect silently / or on one (or both) of the following+

~The Joys of St. Joseph~

1. The angel's message of joy.

2. The Savior's birth.

3. Having the honor of naming Jesus.

4. Knowing the effects of Jesus' redemptive work.

5. The idols of Egypt fell at Jesus' feet.

6. Holy life with Jesus and Mary.

7. Finding Jesus after three days.

~The Sorrows of St. Joseph~

1. His doubts about Mary

2. His pain at the lowly poverty of Jesus' birthplace.

3. Watching the circumcision, Jesus' first blood spilt for us.

4. Listening to the painful prophetic message from Simeon.

5. Having to take the Holy Family into exile.

6. The hard trip back from Egypt.

7. The loss of Jesus for three days.