Rosary Roadmap of Salvation

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.

·         Try Feast Day recipes

 

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

·         Drops of Christ’s Blood

·         Universal Man Plan

·         Rosary










Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Friday, August 26, 2022

Monday, August 12, 2019

Monday, October 3, 2022

Thirty Days with Mary-Day 26-September 9

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Tuesday, May 19, 2015