Month: November 2018

“Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
– Luke 21:28

Live the Faith! Tip of the Week:
Read and discuss the upcoming Sunday Gospel (Luke 21:25-28, 34-36) with your family this week and each week of Advent. Decide with your spouse when this will take place this week and each week so that your family can truly prepare with the Church for the coming of Christ.

Prayer:
Lord, thank you for this time of Advent which “refreshes us and makes us healthy and able to receive You in whatever form You may come to us,” as Mother Teresa said. Give us the grace to empty ourselves in humility so that You find the space in our hearts to fill us with Your love.  Amen.

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
– Matthew 5:16

Live the Faith! Tip of the Week:
You are compelling proof of God’s existence! This week, go forth to bring God’s beauty into the world through your virtue.

Prayer:
“I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well; my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.”
++++– Psalm 139:14-15

“And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures
according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts
of the earth according to their kinds.’ And it was so.”
– Genesis 1:24

Live the Faith! Tip of the Week:
Wake up a few minutes early this week and take a moment to go outside and hear the sounds of life as the sun rises. Marvel at the Divine Artist through admiring His work in the little piece of earth you inhabit.

Prayer:
“O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is thy name in all the earth!…
When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
++the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
what is man that thou art mindful of him,
++and the son of man that thou dost care for him?…
O Lord, our Lord,
++how majestic is thy name in all the earth!”
+++++–  Psalm 8:1,3-4,9

“When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?”
– Psalm 8:3-4

Live the Faith! Tip of the Week:
What fascinates you about nature? What fascinated you as a child? Take some time this week to be fascinated by God’s handiwork, and ask God what He wants to show you through it.

Prayer:
“Be praised, my Lord, for all your creatures, and first for brother sun, who makes the day bright and luminous. He is beautiful and radiant with great splendor. He is the image of You, most high. Be praised, my Lord, for sister moon and the stars. You placed them in the sky, so bright and twinkling.”
–   St. Francis of Assisi