February 9
“Leaders are magnanimous in their dreams, visions, and sense of mission; in their capacity for hope, confidence, and daring; in their enthusiasm for the effort required to bring their work to a successful conclusion; in their capacity to challenge themselves and those around them.”
-Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership
We recently heard from a woman who went for testing at a local hospital for heart issues. While there, she told the technician about having recently lost her beloved dog. The tech responded by saying that this dog was her “familiar”, meaning a spirit being that was attached to her soul. Is there any such thing as a familiar spirit and, if so, what is it?
“When I started the Full of Grace Study, I was already an on fire excited convert… but I wasn’t excited about being a woman. The study changed that.” God worked in my heart and I was just blown away.”
February 7
“Between women and God is often arranged the eternal salvation of husbands and sons. But for this she must be valiant. Strong to uphold purity of life. Strong to keep inviolate the treasure of faith. Strong in every battle of life. Great-souled in the face of calamity, persecution and death. And remember, sorrow is the training ground of strong souls.”
-St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
BB writes: “I sometimes watch shows about hauntings and I always wondered about the equipment ghostbusters use to detect the presence of spirits. What is this stuff, and does it really work?”
February 6
“Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls’ education.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
(Photo courtesy of WikiCommons, Lorie Shaull, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Cecile Richards, who headed Planned Parenthood for 12 years, has been diagnosed with
glioblastoma, an incurable brain cancer which has a survival rate of just 15 months.
February 5
“The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
