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  DAY 16 - VIRGIN MOST VENERABLE, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE FRUIT OF CHARITY! GOD'S WORD "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them." (1 John 4:16) HEROES' WORDS "Our hearts were made for you, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you." -St. Augustine "The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest." -St. Augustine "Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead." -St. Thomas Aquinas "Charity is the form, mover, mother, and root of all virtues." -St. Thomas Aquinas MEDITATION By this power of the Spirit, God's children can bear much fruit. He who has grafted us o...

  DAY 15 - VIRGIN MOST PRUDENT, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE GIFT OF FEAR OF THE LORD! GOD'S WORD "Serve the Lord in fear, and exult in him with trembling." (Psalm 2:11) "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holiness is prudence." (Proverbs 9:10) "His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation." (Luke 1:50) HEROES' WORDS "For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains, and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear." -St. Bernard "We must fear God out of love, not love him out of fear." -St. Francis de Sales MEDITATION Gift of Fear: Infused gift of the Holy Spirit that confirms the virtue of hope and inspires a person with profound respect for the majesty of God. Its corresponding effects are protection from sin through dread of offending the Lord, and a strong confidence in the power of his hel...

  DAY 14 - MOTHER OF OUR SAVIOR, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE GIFT OF PIETY! GOD'S WORD "The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out 'Abba, Father!'" (Romans 8:14-15) HEROES' WORDS "In so far as divine love beautifies our souls and makes us pleasing to his divine Majesty, it is called grace; in so far as it gives us strength to do good, it is called charity; but when it reaches such a degree of perfection, that it makes us not only do the good, but do so carefully, frequently, and readily, then it is called devotion." -St. Francis de Sales "Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire." -St. Francis de Sales "Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service." -St. Thomas Aquinas MEDITATION The Gift of Piety: A special gift of the Holy Spirit; it perfects ...