This week look at your behaviors and determine how many times you engage in these behaviors. Then, try to decrease the negative behaviors and increase the positive ones. Fast from anger; Feast on patience. Fast from pessimism; Feast on optimism. … Continue reading
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This week try to reduce the clutter in both your spiritual and physical lives. Each day go to a different room and organize and reduce clutter. Throw out the things you don’t need. Each day during the week, take time … Continue reading
Make this a week when you reconnect with old friends, those who you haven’t seen in a while and, especially, those who you may have had a disagreement with. This week is all about building, maintaining and establishing loving relationships … Continue reading
During the next seven days of the Fast why don’t you try to turn off the radio and television and just spend the time you would watching or listening to spiritual reading, or sending a note to someone you have … Continue reading
Although this may be an old fashion approach to observing the Great Fast, I would like to suggest this practice on this first week. Why not decide to put aside each day a certain amount of money. Then for 40 … Continue reading
O my most compassionate Lord and Savior, as I think about all that You did during Your human life in order that I might learn how to live the life You have given me, I offer You my deepest thanks … Continue reading
O Most Holy Lamb of God, whom Isaiah proclaimed goes willingly to the cruel slaughter enacted by unbelievers, I know that you gave Your back to scourging, Your cheeks to buffeting, and Your body to torture, You did not turn … Continue reading
O most merciful Lord, You have given so much of Yourself to me. On the night before You voluntarily went to Your death so that death can no longer contain me, You gave Yourself to me and others in the … Continue reading
O my merciful Lord, let me love you as my Bridegroom. Let me keep my lamp aflame with virtue and with true faith so that I, like the wise virgins of the Gospel parable, might be ready to enter with … Continue reading
O my merciful Redeemer, today Your holy passion dawns upon the world as a saving light. You come of Your own goodness to suffer in order that I might know how to live and to deal with all the challenges … Continue reading