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Category: Letters

Posted on July 14, 2021

The happiness of the life of our family and the necessary condition of all our success depend upon mutual charity and union.

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

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

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Posted on July 13, 2021

Everyone associated with Holy Cross will make a personal contribution to its progress according to individual strength, intellectual ability, and particular aptitude.

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Reflect on the text and image. What can you take away for your life and ministry/work today?

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

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Posted on July 11, 2021

If we remain united by mutual charity, Holy Cross will grow like a mighty tree, constantly shooting forth new limbs and branches.

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Where in your life has God asked you to grow?

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

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Posted on July 10, 2021

Disregard whatever differences of talent or occupation could prevent or weaken the unity among you; let us all strive after the same goal.

pine forest

How has God used your weaknesses to proclaim the message of God?

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

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Posted on July 9, 2021

We who are disciples of a God who died for the salvation of people do not fully realize all the good we could do for others through our union with Jesus Christ.

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How might your life’s actions today act as a prayer to God?

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

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Posted on July 8, 2021

To succeed in the important work entrusted to us we must be so closely united that we form but one mind and one heart.

Inca stonework

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 July 6, 2021

Jesus regards as done for himself what is done even for the least of his followers.

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In your own life, who is the marginalized person that you encounter daily, and how might the text today impact your encounter with them?

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

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Posted on July 5, 2021

Practice charity by bearing patiently with one another’s failings, unevenness of temperament and personality.

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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 Letters.

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Posted on July 4, 2021

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

hill of crosses

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, 2021

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

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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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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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