Piques and Resentments

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Piques and Resentments

When I let personal piques and resentments interfere with what I
know to be my proper conduct, I am on the wrong track and I am undoing
all I have built up by doing the right thing. I must never let
personal piques interfere with living the way I know God wants me to
live. When I have no clear guidance from God, I must go forward
quietly along the path of duty. The attitude of quiet faith will
receive its reward as surely as acting upon God's direct guidance. I
must not weaken my spiritual power by letting personal piques upset
me.

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January 6th – St. Raphaela Maria Porras

Rafaela Maria Porras y Ayllon is a gift to the world. She was born in
Pedro Abad, Spain on the 1st of March 1850, into a profoundly
Christian family. 150 years later, we celebrate her life with immense
joy and gratitude. Without claiming to be a Foundress, she began a
Work which is still today, in many parts of the world, putting the
grace which she received at the service of the People of God.

In 1875 she entered the Noviciate of the Society of Mary Reparatrix,
together with her sister Pilar. The time spent there made a deep
impression on their lives and was a preparation for God's plan over
them. Generously open to this design of God, they welcomed it with
love and fidelity, and in 1877 founded the Institute of the Handmaids
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Rafaela Maria was a woman of a single love. Christ in the Eucharist
was the center of her existence; she lived in profound communion with
him, entering into his plan of universal reconciliation. She spent
many hours of her life in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament,
allowing herself to be transformed by him, so that the world became
converted for her into a great temple, where she worshipped the Lord
of History in spirit and truth.

This eucharistic dynamism led her to create communities founded on
union and the joy of serving so great a Lord. She loved her Sisters
tenderly, and never faltered in giving everything to build communion
among them.

With her passion for the interests of Christ's Heart, she was
determined that his saving and reparative love should reach everyone,
the whole of humanity. So, from the very first moment, she wanted her
Institute to be dedicated to education in the service of the Gospel,
and to be "universal like the Church", always giving preference to the
poor and simple.

While she was guiding the Institute, she based her government on love
and respect for the Sisters, and on faithfulness to the mission
received. Then, during the long years of hidden life in Rome,
identified with Christ on the cross, she passed on the living spirit
of her total gift of self, a genuine Handmaid of the Lord: free,
humble, valiant, dedicated.

She died in Rome, on the 6th of January 1925. On the 23rd of January
1977, before the whole world, Paul VI proclaimed that this woman had
lived the Gospel with all its consequences. From then on, we invoke
her as Saint Rafaela Maria of the Sacred Heart.



“Even if I must suffer greatly, thanks be to God's mercy, I will not
lack courage.”

"That the torch of faith be our beacon. Love God and neighbor our
guide, our strength and hope.
--Saint Genoveva Torres Morales


Saint Quote:
We need not fear to be puffed with the knowledge of what God has done
for us, if we keep well before us the truth that whatever good there
may be in us, is not of us. Though a mule is laden with the precious
treasures of a prince, is it not still a clumsy, filthy beast?
-- Saint Francis de Sale

Bible Quote:
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was
covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then
I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction: Yet a
little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
[Pro 24:30-34] DRB


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Novena to the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit you who solve all problems, who light all roads so that I
can attain my goal. You, who gave me the divine gift, forget all evil
against me & who in all instances of my life are with me. I want in
this short prayer to thank you for all things & to confirm once again
that I never want to be separated from you even in spite of all
material illusion. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you
for your mercy toward me and mine.

(Make your request)