Help for fasting on this Wednesday of the 1st Week of Lent:
“Prayer is greatly aided by fasting and watching and every kind of
bodily chastisement. In this regard each of you must do what you can.
Thus, the weaker will not hold back the stronger, and the stronger will
not press the weaker. You owe your conscience to God. But to no one else
do you owe anything more except that you love one another.”
— St. Augustine
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St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe wrote about the saints and sanctity quite often. His first rule of life was “I must become a saint, and a great saint.” … As we might expect, St. Maximilian tells us that to become holy is our duty to God. It is not an option…” https://saintmaximiliankolbe.com/saints-and-sanctity-part-1/ In an article
“Great is the mystery of the faith! This mystery, then, requires that the faithful believe in it, celebrate it, and live from it in a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. This relationship is prayer” (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church 2558 emphasis mine). To pray the rosary is to enter
Detail of Pentecost, painted by Jean II Restout, 1732. I was praying in adoration this morning and felt an overwhelming desire to pray for the Holy Spirit. We have been reading Jesus say to us (in the daily Mass readings from John), again and again, that we can ask the Father for whatever we wish in
“I don’t think any of us understand the magnitude of what is going on here: How God’s whole plan of salvation is culminating in Divine Mercy and Medjugorje. How everything has led up to this point, this point in human history.” Father Chris Alar, MIC “Here in Medjugorje, we are at the Wedding Feast of
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