Thought for the day…

 

Week of Jul 6 to Jul 13,2008

 

Sun, Jul 6                   Repeat this word often: TRUST. Repeat it to us and to everybody, O Mary, because all people must become saints.

      Servant of God, Bishop William Giaquinta

 

                                             Suggestion: Trust Mary in your difficult moments

 

Mon, Jul 7                 For me to be a saint means to be myself.  Therefore, the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Thomas Merton

 

                                                  Suggestion: Be honest with yourself today

 

Tue, Jul 8              I have set before you life and death, blessings and cursing…

…therefore, choose life

Deuteronomy 30:19

Suggestion: Are choosing life today

              

 

Wed, Jul 10                To pray is to walk in the presence of God: a presence leading us to conversion, calling us to compare our daily life with the Lord’s wishes and encouraging us to be fully receptive and docile to the action of the  Holy Spirit

 Servant of God, Bishop William Giaquinta

 

 Suggestion:  What is challenging you today? Pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance

 

Thu, Jul 11                Then the Lord will guide you always and give you plenty even on the parched land. He will renew your strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails.

Isaiah 58: 11

                   Suggestion: Be generous with your time and your talents.

 

Fri,  Jul 12                While reading the life of Our Lord and of the saints, he stopped to think “What if I should do what St. Francis did, What Saint Dominic did?      

St. Ignatius of Loyola

 

                                          Suggestion: Imitate one of your SAINT role models today

 

Sat, Jul 13                 For me, prayer is the heart’s impulse, a simple gaze toward heaven.  It is a cry of gratitude and love, from the depths of trial as well as the heights of joy.

 Saint Therese of Lisieux

                                                    Suggestion:  Pray to Our Blessed Mother today

 

 

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