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Love to pray

July 15
"If you know how to pray, then you will love prayer -- and if you love to pray, then you will pray."
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
Today’s Reflection:
Why is prayer a conduit of love? Have I noticed this to be true in my own relationships -- what has been the effect of prayer?
day?

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Perfume the day in prayer

July 13

"A few moments of recollection and meditation each morning n the presence of God transforms and perfumes the whole day, life flowers cast when night comes, whose fragrance at dawn anoints everything they have touched."

-Elisabeth Leseur

 

Today’s Reflection:

How can prayer perfume the day?

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Focus on God

July 10
"The more we give ourselves up in the worship of God, the more our personality is deepened and enriched. The more we concentrate on ourselves and our own status, however, the more we grow poor, shallow, and dull..."
-Jutta Burggraf
Today’s Reflection:
Ponder the times you have focused on God vs. yourself? How have you seen your personality enriched or diminished?

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My soul doth magnify the Lord

July 8

"And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; and holy is his name.

-Luke 1:46-49

 

Today’s Reflection:

Through my vocation as woman, the Lord has done great things for me and invites me to do great things in His name. Do I believe this?

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The gift of being a woman

July 7

"The gift of being a woman is the ability to give life. As Christian women we have an even greater privilege - to give supernatural life to others through a personal relationship with Christ in life."

-Marianne Evans Mount

 

Today’s Reflection:

How seriously do I take my call to bring spiritual life to others?

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Her original vocation

July 6

"Woman's nature is determined by her original vocation of spouse and mother. One depends on the other. The body of woman is fashioned 'to be one flesh' with another and to nurse new human life in itself."

-St. Edith Stein

 

Today’s Reflection:

What are some specific ways the Lord uses my feminine call as a source of sanctification for myself? For others?

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