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Just say yes, let God do the rest
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Dear Jesus,
Help me to be more attentive to you working in my life. Forgive me for the times I neglected to hear you speak to my heart. Help me to make a more concerted effort to be prayerful. Please help me to be mindful about my responsibility in leading others to you and away from sin. Thank you for the gift of my guardian angel whom I desire to pray to more often.–from the book Our Lady of Fatima: 100 Years of Stories, Prayers, and Devotions
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Walk with Saint Francis of AssisiThat is very simply what a pilgrim does: WALK. And it is the way the pilgrim prays, with his or her feet. And the feet walk through dark clouds to illumination to the light that is holy action. Through dark, cloud-filled days to a hint of subtle lightening to the sun breaking through, the feet taking us where we least thought we’d go, where before we had thought darkness dwelt, and finding there instead, in bright sunlight, the broken, the poor, the marginal, those made ugly or disfigured by abuse and oppression and woundedness. We are changed simply by walking, rain or shine, toward and back from whatever shrine we had thought contained our hope and longing. We walk back toward what was there all along that we could not see.
from the book Enter Assisi: An Invitation to Franciscan Spirituality -
The Undeniable Light and Peace of Our Lady of Fatima
Pope Francis announced the consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and asked the Blessed Mother’s help: “Guard our lives in your arms. Bless and strengthen every desire for goodness; revive and grow faith; sustain and illuminate hope; arouse and enliven charity; guide all of us on the path to holiness.”The Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary reminds us that the love in Mary’s heart is a love we seek to imitate. Our generous and selfless mother shares with us many helps and graces. Her only desire is to direct us to her son, so that we might “do whatever he tells us” (see John 2:5). Consecration to Mary’s Immaculate Heart can only lead us more swiftly and intimately to the heart of her son. Sacred Heart of Jesus, I give myself to you through Mary!–from the book
Healing Promises: The Essential Guide to the Sacred Heart
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The joy is in the journey
Unwaveringly, the church marches forward on her pilgrim way between the world's persecutions and God's consulations." ~ Saint Augustine (354-430)
