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Topic: faith

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“Let us often reflect on the happiness of the Saints. It consists in loving a God infinitely lovable ...”

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“Put yourself gently into the hands of Providence.”

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“O my dear daughters, how consoling is this mystery of the Eucharist! If we knew how to appreciate it, it would suffice to fortify and sustain us; is there anything sweeter than to have a friend to whom we may at any hour confide our difficulties and our pains?”

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“[God] has protected us with so much love until the present day that I should consider it a crime to doubt [God's] mercy now.”

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“The good God who has protected us so many times can still protect us.”

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“Unless nourished, faith, like love, becomes extinguished.”

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Novena to Our Lady of Providence

Our Lady of Providence, Queen
of the Home, pray for strong and happy marriages,
safe pregnancies, peace within families, for those
divorced or separated and for all children,

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Advent Poem

ADVENT journey down through the centuriesof people seeking Godto become flesh in their lives journey of people in high placesjourney of the lowly and the simplejourney of Mary and Josephjourney…

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Aging Prayer

Oh, God, awaken within me the gift of these years.
Teach me to trust so I can face my fears.

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A prayer for a nun in a wheelchair

By John Shea In the Convent of Perpetual Adoration on an eternal summer afternoon the three o’clock chimes called back the flight of the old nun. In her wheelchair before…

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The Prayer of the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

A prayer for the visitors to the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin.

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Compost Time

I’m throwingthe unwanted scrapsof my life hereinto the compost bintrusting that Godcan take whatseems so uselessand, amazingly,transform itinto rich, dark soilso the seedsof my futuremay be luredinto vibrant life again.…

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Quote of the day

October 3
Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
“What have we to do in order to be saints? Nothing extraordinary; nothing more than what we do every day. Only do it for [God's] love...”
– Saint Mother Theodore Guerin