
The Gift of Our Crosses to Bear
What causes you heartache, keeps you up at night, or otherwise nags your mind and soul in your everyday life? These struggles make up the wooden beams of your cross.
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What causes you heartache, keeps you up at night, or otherwise nags your mind and soul in your everyday life? These struggles make up the wooden beams of your cross.

When we are at our best, we are most able to carry out the work God has given us with energy and joy.

Once we acknowledge the reality of our society, we must do what we can to live the ideal we seek to the best of our abilities.

Reflect Is there any better feeling than that of the warm sun on your face? The added Vitamin D raises your spirits. Pray Dear Lord

How do we overcome the small, everyday negativities that can build up and weigh us down?

Thomas of Celano, an early friar and author of three hagiographies of Francis, wrote that the saint “burned with a love that came from his whole being for the sacrament of the Lord’s body.”

Reflect Recently, I spent time with a very unhappy person. Although they did have legitimate problems, most of their suffering was of their own making.

The Jewish leaders brought Jesus before Pilate because they said their law would not allow them to put anyone to death. However, earlier in the same Gospel, they were planning to stone a woman caught in adultery. Wasn’t this a death sentence?

It is only through the passage of diversity that we awaken to our inherent union and spiritual connection to one another.

Reflect In all four canonical gospels, as John the Baptist is baptizing Jesus, the Holy Spirit alights as a dove (Mt 3:13-17, Mk 1:9-11, Lk