Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Matthew,
Chapter 10, verse 31
So do not be AFRAID; you are
worth more than many sparrows.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne
Williamson.
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
SECTION ONE THE SACRAMENTAL ECONOMY
CHAPTER ONE THE PASCHAL MYSTERY IN THE AGE OF THE CHURCH
Article 2 THE PASCHAL MYSTERY IN THE
CHURCH'S SACRAMENTS
V. The
Sacraments of Eternal Life
1130 The Church celebrates the mystery of her Lord "until
he comes," when God will be "everything to everyone." Since
the apostolic age the liturgy has been drawn toward its goal by the Spirit's
groaning in the Church: Marana tha! The liturgy thus shares in Jesus'
desire: "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you . . .
until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." In the sacraments of
Christ the Church already receives the guarantee of her inheritance and even
now shares in everlasting life, while "awaiting our blessed hope, the
appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus." The
"Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come . . . Come, Lord Jesus!"'
St. Thomas sums up the various aspects of sacramental
signs: "Therefore a sacrament is a sign that commemorates what precedes it
- Christ's Passion; demonstrates what is accomplished in us through Christ's
Passion - grace; and prefigures what that Passion pledges to us - future
glory."
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: True
Masculinity
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
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