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May 22, 2025         

(Mat 10:38-39) And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.

POPE LEO XIV: "There is no aspect of life that remains untouched by the Gospel".

FATHER JEFFREY F. KIRBY: Human beings are not zombies or robots, and need prayer

VIA: The Discalced Hermits of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Three Steps to Conforming Your Will to God's Will 

• Memorize God’s commandments (especially the two greatest commandments: “You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength” and “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” and the 10 commandments).
• Pray each day for the grace to live according to God’s commandments as you carry out your daily duties.
• Before retiring at night, reflect on the ways you lived according to God’s commandments and the ways you failed to do so. Then make a devout act of contrition begging God’s forgiveness and the grace to amend your life.

Two Practical Recommendations to Help You Pray Well

• Before beginning your prayer, spend a few moments reflecting on the fact that: God right now is keeping you and everything around you in existence, and He knows everything that can be known about you and everything around you, and He lovingly governs you and all things around you.
• Adore the three divine Persons dwelling within you by slowly praying: “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

Three recommendations for developing the virtues of humility and charity

• Prayerfully read and reflect on the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18:9-14.
• Pray the litany of humility or the simple prayer: “Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine.” Regularly make acts of charity such as the following: “O my God, I love Thee above all things with my whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and I love my neighbor as myself for Thy sake.”

CARDINAL SARAH VIA X:

• “We must return to the essentials: to God, to prayer, to the Eucharist, to confession, to the truth of the Gospel. The Church is not a humanitarian organization. She is the door to eternal life.”
• “The Church is not made to please the world. She is made to convert it—to open the gates of eternity. Without Heaven, all our work is in vain.” “The greatest poverty is the loss of God. The worst violence is the refusal to speak about eternity. If we do not live for Heaven, we live in despair.”
• “Let us not be afraid of being few. Let us be afraid of being lukewarm. Christ saved the world with twelve apostles, not with crowds.”
• Jesus Christ is the Living God. The Church is not a club of activists—she is the Ark of Salvation. And eternal life is not a fantasy—it is the goal for which we were created.
  

The Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Charity

24. A hermit said, 'I never wanted work to be useful to me while causing loss to my brother, for I have this hope that what helps my brother will bring fruit to me.'

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