Deus Caritas Est

“God is love”: everything has its origin in God's love, everything is shaped by it, everything is directed towards it. Love is God's greatest gift to humanity, it is his promise and our hope.

~CARITAS IN VERITATE

Freedom

Freedom "certainly isn't doing everything we want, allowing passions to dominate us, moving from one experience to another without discernment, following the fads of the moment; freedom doesn't mean throwing everything we don't like out the window." True freedom is the ability to say "yes" to what is good and to make "definitive choices." ~Pope Francis

Hail Mary

My Prayer for Today...

listen
accept
do
May the Holy Spirit guide me to listen attentively  to God, accept his will, and do whatever he tells me to. Amen

"My God, dispose of me, and of all that belongs to me, according to your good pleasure. Amen."

A short prayer by St. Teresa of Avila

Lord, grant that I may always allow myself  

to be guided by you,  

always follow your plans,  

and perfectly accomplish your holy will.  

Grant that in all things,  

great and small,  

today and all the days of my life,  

I may do whatever you require of me.  

Help me respond  

to the slightest prompting of your grace, 

so that I may be  

your trustworthy instrument for your honor. 

May your will be done in time and in eternity  

by me, in me, and through me.  

Amen.

- St. Teresa of Ávila

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St. Joseph Pray for Us!

"Dear young friends, learn from Saint Joseph. He went through difficult times, but he always trusted, and he knew how to overcome adversity." ~ Pope Francis, 5/1/13