Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Give me an accounting of your stewardship.
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Luke 16:2

Reflection: Don't you have by your side booklets on which you enter your account each day? In the same way, you must make an accounting every day for your conscience.
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St. John Chrysostom

Prayer: God of forgiveness, help me to make a daily examination of conscience. Teach me how to pinpoint faults, ask Your forgiveness for them, and resolve to do better in the future.




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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Jesus said to [Simon Peter], "Feed My lambs...Tend My sheep."
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John 21:15-16

Reflection: Where Peter is, there is the Church. Where the Church is, there is Jesus Christ. Where Jesus Christ is, there is eternal salvation.
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St. Ambrose

Prayer: Lord Jesus, You left us Your Church and You Vicar the Pope to insure our contact with You. Let me always cling to Your Church and follow her teachings with all my heart.



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Friday, June 25, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Friday, June 25, 2010

May the God patience and comfort grant you to be of one mind toward one another according to the spirit of Christ Jesus.
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Romans 15:5

Reflection: Imitate Jesus, Who is sovereignly perfect and sovereignly holy. Then you will never run the danger of losing your way.
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St. John of the Cross

Prayer: Heavenly Father, enable me to put on the attitude of Your Son Jesus. Grant that I may be His follower in all things on earth so that I may follow Him to heaven.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Thursday, June 24, 2010

He must increase; I must decrease.
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John 3:30

Reflection: The true secret of love consists in this: We must forget self like St. John the Baptist and exalt and glorify the Lord Jesus.
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St. Peter Eymard

Prayer: Almighty God, help me to put my self-interests in the background. Let me seek Your interests and do everything for the honor and glory of Your Son Jesus.



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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Wednesday, June 23, 2010

In everything, deal with others as you would like them to deal with you.
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Matthew 7:12

Reflection: Goodwill in the soul is the source of all good things and the mother of all virtues. Those who possess it hold in their hand--without fear of losing it--all that is necessary to lead a good life.
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St. Albert the Great

Prayer: Heavenly Father, grant me the true spirit of goodwill toward all. Let me be ever ready to carry out Your will and to come to the aid of all I encounter on this earthly pilgrimage.



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Monday, June 21, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Monday, June 21, 2010

One day with the Lord is a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- 2 Peter 3:8

Reflection: Everything on this earth passes away--all too quickly. But eternity will never pass away.
- St. Aloysius Gonzaga

Prayer: Ever-living God, let me not get over caught up in the day-to-day press of earthly affairs. Help me to keep my eyes fixed on Your eternal truths and consider all things in the light of eternity.



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Friday, June 18, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Friday, June 18, 2010

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings...and announces salvation.
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Isaiah 52:7

Reflection: What a thrill will be yours on the last day when you hear the words of those whom you have led to heaven almost by the hand: "These people are servantgs of the great God who have proclaimed the ways of salvation to us!"
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St. John Baptist de la Salle

Prayer: Almighty God, make me a willing messenger of Your Good News of Salvation to those who do not know You. Let me be a messenger through prayer as well as through words and actions.





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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Thursday, June 17, 2010

Jesus is...the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no on else.
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Acts 4:11

Reflection: No one can advance in virtue except by following Jesus Christ. He is the truth, the life, and the only door through Whom everyone who wants to be saved must enter.
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St. John of the Cross

Prayer: Father of goodness, make me realize that Jesus is the only way to You for everyone in the world. Grant that I may follow Him closely on earth and reach my heavenly home.



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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Fathers do not provoke your children to anger. Raise them with the teaching and instruction of the Lord.
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Ephesians 6:4

Reflection: The family is the domestic Church. Parents should by word and example be the first preachers of the Faith to their children. They should encourage their children in the vocation proper to each, carefully fostering vocations to the religious state.
- Vatican II: The Church, no. 11

Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me to take seriously my role in the domestic Church. Let me work to ensure that Christian love and harmony will always reign in my family.



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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Those who are faithful in a very small matter are also faithful in great matters.
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Luke 16:10


Reflection: Faithfulness is the reason for living. It is not a chain restraining the boldness of talent and love. When it consists of adherence to our creed, which never ages and never is exhausted, it opens a path to order, always positive, strong, and happy.
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Pope Paul VI

Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me never to see my commitment to my Faith as a prison. On the contrary, let me regard it as a suitable means of expressing my life and my love.



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Monday, June 14, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Monday, June 14, 2010

Through the Church, the manifold wisdom of God is made known.
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Ephesians 3:10


Reflection: The sight of the risen Christ helped the disciples to believe in the Church that was to follow. In the same way, the spectavle of that Church helps to confirm our faith in the Resurrection of Christ.
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St. Augustine

Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, let Your Church be a beacon of knowledge and truth for me and for all people. Confirm my faith in Your Life, Death, and Resurrection by keeping me ever in tune with Your Church in all things.



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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Saturday, June 12, 2010

Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy.
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Leviticus 11:44

Reflection: You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wants you to sanctify the world and your everydat life.
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St. Vincent Palloti

Prayer: Holy God, show me the path to holiness that You want me to follow. Teach me how to recognize it and help me to follow it diligently all the days of my life.



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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Thursday, June 10, 2010

Do not judge, that you may not be judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged.
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Matthew 7:1-2


Reflection: The real Church is being born today in the faithfulness and boldness of the Spirit, in the unity of Christ's Body. We do not ask you to praise her a priori, but to give these positive facts the place they deserve. Like the Lord, we say to you. Come and see.
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Pope Paul VI

Prayer: O Lord, let me never prejudge actions of the Church that might seem questionable. Let me find love in her and lover her into healing.



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Friday, June 4, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Friday, June 04, 2010

Do not say, "I am self-sufficient. What harm can come to me now?"
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Sirach 11:24

Reflection: Presumption is like vermin burrowing at the root of the tree of our soul. If we do not uproot it with great care and humility, it will eventually destroy the soul.
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St. Catherine of Siena

Prayer: All-powerful God, keep me from all presumption of mind and heart. Help me to realize that I depend on You for everything and of myself I can do nothing.



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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Thursday, June 03, 2010

Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light to my path.
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Psalms 119:105

Reflection: Being a Christian means saying "yes" to Jesus Christ. It consists in surrendering to the Word of God and relying on it, but also endeavoring to know better and better the profound meaning of this Word.
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Pope John Paul II

Prayer: Self-revealing God, let me rely always on Your all-enlightening Word. Help me to read it often, study it diligently, ponder it well, and put it into practice in my daily life.



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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Tuesday, June 01, 2010

The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
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John 6:63

Reflection: Make sure that you never spurn the Savior's words. They have in themselves such tremendous majesty that they can instill fear into those who have wandered from the path of righteousness, whereas they ever remain a great solace to those who heed them.
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St. Justin the Martyr

Prayer: Lord Jesus, let me daily take to heart and ponder Your words. Grant that they may lead me to penance and also provide needed consolation amid the troubles of life.



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