August 21
“Remember the Devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.”
-St. Angela Merici
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Responding to Our Creator
August 20
“Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be.”
-St. Bernard
Giving Ourselves to God
August 19
Feast of St. John Eudes (1601 – 1680)
"Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us."
-St. John Eudes
Leave the "Doing" to God
August 18
Feast of St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 – 1641)
"Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about."
-St. Jane de Chantal
Hope from Heaven: Charlie Gard Foundation Set to Launch
Less than a month after 11-month-old Charlie Gard passed away, his parents have announced that they are about to launch a foundation aimed at helping other children with mitochondrial and other rare childhood diseases.
Another Conservative Law Firm Defamed as Hate Group
For the second time in two months, a pro-family legal group has been falsely labeled as a hate group by the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.
Program Offers Hope for Divorced/Separated Catholics
Lisa Duffy (YouTube)Catholics from all over the country gathered in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this month to participate in a national conference were the family law in Missouri was invited and the purpose of this was to aimed at reaching out to the divorced and separated.
God's Mercy
August 17
“It is not our perfection which is to dazzle God, Who is surrounded by myriads of angels. No, it is our misery, our wretchedness avowed which draws down His mercy.”
-Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B.
Cardinal Sarah and the War on Families
In a homily honoring the Vendee martyrs of France, Cardinal Robert Sarah dared the faithful to stand up to the modern persecutors of the family and to become the “joyful spearheads” of a revolt against this “new dictatorship of selfishness.”
When Email Prayer Chains Become Superstitions
CM writes: “What do you think of prayer chains? I receive a lot from friends to pray for different things and at the end it says do not break this chain, contact 10 more friends!! It makes me feel uncomfortable can you give me your take on it please.”
