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Category: Rules

Posted on July 29, 2025June 30, 2025

Charity is forgiving, so if we offend anyone by word or action, we do not let the day end without asking their pardon and making amends.

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Where is there room for reconciliation in your life with others or with yourself?

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

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Posted on July 28, 2025June 30, 2025

Charity is kind, so we are honest, considerate, pleasant, and obliging toward all.

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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 Rules.

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Posted on July 17, 2025June 30, 2025

Our Lord recommended nothing so much to his disciples as mutual charity, which we must practice always, as the second and greatest commandment after that of the love of God.

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Spend a moment in silence listening to the words of the text within you.

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

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Posted on June 22, 2025December 30, 2024

There are two sorts of prayer: mental which is in the spirit and the heart of the one who prays; and vocal which uses the voice.

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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 Rules.

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Posted on June 18, 2025December 30, 2024

The spirit of prayer is a sort of gravitation toward God by the loving practice of the presence of God.

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Reflect upon when you have felt God’s presence in your life and its impact.

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

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Posted on May 21, 2025December 30, 2024

The spirit of faith inspires and animates zeal; that is, the sacred fire that the divine master came to bring to earth.

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Spend a moment in silence listening to the words of the text within you.

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

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Posted on May 8, 2025December 30, 2024

We should strive to ignite and maintain within ourselves the sacred fire of love.

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

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

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Posted on May 3, 2025December 30, 2024

We must try our best, with the help of grace, to augment God’s love, until it fills our whole mind, our whole heart, and completes our strength.

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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 Rules.

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Posted on March 4, 2025December 29, 2024

With all possible care and concern, those in administrative positions should nurture union of hearts.

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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 Rules.

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Posted on February 22, 2025December 29, 2024

Strive especially to put on Jesus Christ; it is no longer a matter of learning to become a good Christian, but of becoming an apostolic person.

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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 Rules.

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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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