Monday, February 10, 2025
Monday Night at the Movies
Au Hasard Balthasar
Au hasard Balthazar is a French film title that
translates to "Balthazar, at random" or "the random fate of
Balthazar". The film is about a donkey who is passed between owners, most
of whom mistreat him.
February 10 Monday-St. Scholastica
Ezekiel,
Chapter 3, Verse 9
Like
diamond, harder than flint, I make your brow. Do not be AFRAID of them, or be terrified by their
looks, for they are a rebellious house.
This verse is suggesting that Ezekiel needs to knock
heads or confront his adversaries. At times if we truly love a person, it may
be that we may need to confront them. Our love should will the real good of
another as other and take action to realize that good. To help make things go
right so that the person we love is ultimately becoming the best version of
themselves. This was the love of Christ.
According to John Maxwell[1]
leaders and followers of Christ need to allow God to shape them into being the
kind of person they need to be according to the situation. Maxwell suggests
that when we are approaching a new and different situation, we should ask
ourselves the following questions using reason and not fear.
o
Do
the circumstances tell me it is time to move forward?
o
Are
others ready and willing to move?
o
Is
it the right time to make a change?
o
Do
I have a team that has the gifts and influence to lead?
o
Do
we have the opportunity to be successful?
o
Do
we possess the resources to move now?
o
Am
I the right person to lead the way?
If
we can answer in the affirmative to the majority of these questions God may be
making our brow or will strong to make positive changes in our lives and those
around us.
Feast of St. Scholastica[2]
St. Scholastica was the twin sister of St. Benedict, the Patriarch of Western monasticism. She was born in Umbria, Italy, about 480. Under Benedict's direction, Scholastica founded a community of nuns near the great Benedictine monastery Monte Cassino. Inspired by Benedict's teaching, his sister devoted her whole life to seeking and serving God. She died in 547 and tradition holds that at her death her soul ascended to heaven in the form of a dove.
Things to Do
·
Tell
your children about the "holy twins": St. Scholastica and the tender
love she had for her brother St. Benedict. Ask them how they can help one
another to become saints.
·
Make
an altar hanging or window transparency in the shape of a dove to honor St.
Scholastica.
·
If
you are traveling to Italy, try to visit St. Benedict's Abbey of Monte Cassino.
Catechism of the
Catholic Church
Day
242 1812-1816
II. The Theological Virtues
1812 The human virtues are
rooted in the theological virtues, which adapt man's faculties for
participation in the divine nature: for the theological virtues relate directly
to God. They dispose Christians to live in a relationship with the Holy
Trinity. They have the One and Triune God for their origin, motive, and object.
1813 The theological virtues
are the foundation of Christian moral activity; they animate it and give it its
special character. They inform and give life to all the moral virtues. They are
infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them capable of acting as
his children and of meriting eternal life. They are the pledge of the presence
and action of the Holy Spirit in the faculties of the human being. There are
three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity.
Faith
1814 Faith is the
theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said
and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is
truth itself. By faith "man freely commits his entire self to God." For
this reason the believer seeks to know and do God's will. "The righteous
shall live by faith." Living faith "work(s) through charity."
1815 The gift of faith
remains in one who has not sinned against it. But "faith apart from works
is dead":81 when it is deprived of hope and love, faith does not fully
unite the believer to Christ and does not make him a living member of his Body.
1816 The disciple of Christ must not only keep the faith and live on it,
but also profess it, confidently bear witness to it, and spread it: "All
however must be prepared to confess Christ before men and to follow him along
the way of the Cross, amidst the persecutions which the Church never
lacks." Service of and witness to the faith are necessary for salvation:
"So every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge
before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also
will deny before my Father who is in heaven."
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Restoring
the Constitution
·
Litany of the Most
Precious Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
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