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Posted on February 24, 2022

Cultivate the spirit of prayer, without which you cannot fulfill your duties or attain the perfection toward which you should ceaselessly tend.

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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 Directory.

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Posted on February 23, 2022

Holy Cross is not a human work, but God’s very own.

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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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Posted on February 22, 2022

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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Posted on February 21, 2022

May the name of Jesus be in our hearts and in our heads that it might govern all our thoughts and desires, that it might direct all our works.

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What would Jesus do here?

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

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Posted on February 20, 2022

Regulate your conduct in a manner worthy of your vocation; in a word, become as Saint Paul says, ‘a new person in Jesus Christ.’

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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 February 19, 2022August 9, 2021

How beneficial it is to abandon ourselves to the love of our God who is in heaven and to seek God’s holy will.

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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 February 18, 2022

I feel my heart beating with love for every one of you without exception, and I am quite sure that I would sacrifice my life for your eternal happiness.

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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 Letters.

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Posted on February 17, 2022

In all ages, providence seems to delight in humbling the great and the proud of this world by choosing as its instruments those who appear to be the weakest and most unknown.

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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 Dujarié Biography.

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Posted on February 16, 2022

Do not be preoccupied by the life that is, but pay attention to the life that is to come; this is what the Lord would have us do.

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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 February 15, 2022

Let us at long last turn our attention to the conquest of the reign of God, by devoting ourselves unreservedly to the works of our vocation.

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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 Letters.

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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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