April 5
"Holy Spirit, come into my heart. Bring new life to the ancient prayers I learned as a child, and inspire me to voice my innermost thoughts to the God who knows them all. Amen."
-Johnnette Benkovic Williams
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Making melody with your heart to the Lord
April 4
"Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
-Ephesians 5:18-20
Reflect with gratitude
April 3
"An invisible power seemed to plunge me wholly into fire...but oh! what fire! what sweetness!"
-St. Thérèse of Lisieux
O Holy Spirit
April 2
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
O Holy Sprit, Soul of my soul I adore Thee.
Enlighten, guide, strengthen and console me.
Tell me what I ought to do, then command me to do it.
I promise to be submissive to all that Thou asks of me,
and to accept all that Thou permittest to happen to me,
only show me what is Thy will. Amen.
-Joseph Cardinal Mercier
Love and truth
April 1
“Avoid truth without love, love without truth."
-St. Edith Stein
(St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday
Most glorious Lord of life that on this day
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin,
And having harrowed hell didst bring away
Captivity thence captive us to win;
Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday
I am not moved to love Thee, O my Lord,
By any longing for Thy Promised Land;
Nor by the fear of hell am I unmanned
To cease from my transgressing deed or word.
Good Friday
Good Friday
Jesus:
O Mother dear, didst thou but hear
My plaint of desolation,
Thy tender heart would burst apart
With grief of separation!
Holy Thursday
Holy Thursday
Prone in Gethsemene upon His face,
His eyelids closed, — lay Christ of all our world,
Know, receive, and love Jesus!
March 27
“We still have one short question to answer: 'How are Catholic women to accomplish their providential role as spiritual mothers (with Mary) of the human race?' The answer is simplicity itself. Like Mary –
- They are to know Jesus from daily intimacy with Him in prayer
- They are to receive Jesus by often receiving Him into their hearts
- They are to love Jesus, by spending themselves in serving the needs of Christ's children as they have never done before.”
-Fr. John A Hardon, S.J.
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