A Prayer for Lent...

  "I must become a great saint.  

My Jesus wants it." - St Bernadette 

 

"The world is content with setting right

the surface of things;

the church aims at regenerating

the very depths of the heart."

St John Henry Cardinal Newman

The Idea of a University (1852)

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A Prayer of Offering for Lent

My God, I know well, you could have saved us at Your word,

without Yourself suffering; but You did choose to purchase us at the

price of Your Blood.  I look on You, the Victim lifted up on Calvary, and

I know that Your death was an expiation for the sins of the whole world. 

My Lord, I offer You myself in turn as a sacrifice of thanksgiving. 

You have died for me, and I in turn make myself over to You.  My wish

is to be separated from everything of this world; to cleanse myself

simply from sin.  Enable me to carry out what I profess.

Source: A Newman Prayer Book

Editor: VF Blehl, SJ (1990)
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Together: toward holiness...

"Ask Jesus to make you a saint.

After all, only He can do that.

Go to confession regularly and to 

Communion as often as you can."

St. Dominic Savio

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COMMUNION 

  "Feed on this Bread of the Angels

from which you will draw the

strength to fight inner struggles."

 Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati
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CONFESSION

"This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things." - Patrick Madrid

 

“There is no shame so great that God’s mercy cannot shine forth from its midst. … Jesus is not afraid to go to the core of our shame to heal us.  Sins and secrets do not scare Him.  The serpent causes shame and hiding; Jesus invites us to mercy and communion.” - Fr Richard Veras 

 

"I think one of the central elements of my own discipleship so far has been my pastors’ focus on the Cross. The way of Jesus is the way of the cross. It is terribly painful to give up one’s sins and self-will, to allow one’s old self to be crucified along with Jesus … and I have been very grateful to my pastors who acknowledge how hard and painful it can be along this Christian journey. But the way of the cross is also the way of life and peace.” - Dr Holly Ordway (excerpt - Former Atheist: Christianity Really Does Make Sense)

 

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