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Category: Exercises

Posted on October 29, 2025October 13, 2025

Prayer is the channel of God’s grace and, as it were, a key to eternal life.

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Where in your life has God asked you to grow?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 27, 2025October 13, 2025

Remember that prayer must be humble and confident, persevering, and full of fire.

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Listening to the text, when have you felt God’s absence in your life?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 26, 2025October 13, 2025

Renew the commitment of your baptism and say again with all your heart: ‘I choose to cling to Jesus Christ forever.’

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Blessed Moreau speaks about the “zeal.” What fosters zeal and passion in your life?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 25, 2025October 13, 2025

Jesus, who will give me a heart like yours? When will I begin to live and breathe for you alone?

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As Jesus was fully human, what feelings might you mutually share with him as you reflect upon today’s reading?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 24, 2025October 13, 2025

Let yourself be convinced of the necessity of prayer, of its advantages and of the conditions for it to be effective.

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Listening to the words of the text, where do you experience or hope to experience grace in your life today?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 23, 2025October 13, 2025

Ask for the grace of using the gifts of God so well that you will always be ready to render a faithful account of them.

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Reflect on the text. How is it affirming/challenging/consoling at this time in your life and ministry?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 22, 2025October 13, 2025

Respectfully make your views known; ask for God’s help to see whether your perspective is reasonable.

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Reflect on the text. What does it say to your experience?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 21, 2025October 13, 2025

Ask Jesus to let you surrender to the ways of God’s will just as he did.

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Reflecting upon today’s reading, what are the roadblocks for you today in experiencing God’s presence? How might you offer those into God’s hands today?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 20, 2025October 13, 2025

When will I put my hand to the plow? Jesus, with the help of your grace, it will begin today, as you seem to be speaking to my heart.

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Imagine the person of Jesus in your place today. Reflect on how you as Jesus, would approach the very actions, work, and tasks that you need to engage in today.

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Posted on October 18, 2025October 13, 2025

Of all the virtues none is acquired with greater difficulty than genuine humility and none requires greater efforts or sacrifices.

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Where in your life has God asked you to grow?

Today’s text is drawn from Moreau’s Exercises.

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Blessed Father Moreau was a French priest in the nineteenth century who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross, an order dedicated to educating hearts and minds.

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