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Category: Letters

Posted on July 4, 2022

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold or precious stones.

As you hear the words of Moreau, what vision immediately comes to mind? What significance does this image hold for you?

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

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Posted on July 3, 2022

Our community life offers us opportunities to practice charity: doing little favors for one another, bearing one another’s burdens, pardoning faults.

St. Brother André Bessette, CSC, spent a life of simple hospitality. Reflect upon how you might extend hospitality to someone today who might not otherwise be seen.

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

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Posted on July 2, 2022

We must never lose sight of the fact that strength of numbers, joined with unity of aim and action, is the greatest of all strengths and limited only by the bounds of the possible.

How might you reflect the image of God in yourself to another person today?

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

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Posted on July 1, 2022

Let us work with that strength, unity, and clear understanding that come from mutual cooperation and sharing our resources.

Reflect upon the relationships in your life here on earth that enrich your relationship with God.

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

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Posted on June 30, 2022August 9, 2021

The best way to show God our gratitude and love is to express them by deeds, by the practice of good works.

fishing net

What would Jesus do here?

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

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Posted on June 17, 2022August 9, 2021

We must seek first the reign of God and God’s justice and then trust in providence.

swollen river

As you hear the words of Moreau, what vision immediately comes to mind? What significance does this image hold for you?

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

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Posted on June 16, 2022August 9, 2021

Let us pray for one another, that we may accomplish all the good we can, and that the many people in whose salvation we are privileged to cooperate will attain eternal life.

praying in church

Reflect upon the relationships in your life here on earth that enrich your relationship with God.

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

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Posted on June 15, 2022August 9, 2021

The important work entrusted to us is not yet completed, it still calls for much sacrifice and labor.

sculpture of St. Joseph

Blessed Moreau spoke often about the need to take risks in our pursuit of God’s love. What is a risk you might take as you reflect upon today’s text?

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

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Posted on June 11, 2022August 9, 2021

If we are not animated by the spirit of the saints, the important work of Holy Cross will come to nothing.

on the river

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 Letters.

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Posted on June 10, 2022

If we are the Christians that we should be, nothing necessary will ever be wanting to us.

rose window

How has God carried you through difficult times in the past, and what does that mean for you today?

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

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Blessed Father Moreau

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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