Fears and Tears

contemplation

  • The Flame of Your Love

    I have now completed week 9 of Magnify 90 and this week’s virtue is zeal. ‘Zeal is a strong, action-oriented desire to advance in the spiritual life and move in the direction of righteousness. Zeal puts love into action and strengthens the resolution to progress in virtue and sanctity’. (good confession.com). Zeal is to be…

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  • The Beauty That Surrounds Me

    I have now completed week 8 of Magnify 90 and this week’s virtue is prayerfulness. It is a virtue that invites me to pray at all times with my heart fixed on God. One of the readings from this week speaks about distractions, which I struggle with. The book suggests that this is an attachment…

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  • The Joy of the Lord

    I have completed week 6 of Magnify 90 and this week’s virtue focused on industriousness, which means to work with diligence and care, not succumbing to idleness or sloth. I have been blessed with great examples of hard work by my parents and grandparents who modeled this virtue for me. They cared for me and…

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  • The Virtue of Docility

    I have completed week five of Magnify 90 which focused on the virtue of docility and St. Jane Frances de Chantal. Docility means the willingness to be taught. The virtue of prudence drives docility. Prudence is love discerning aright that which helps from that which hinders us in tending to God. St. Thomas Aquinas St.…

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  • Go to your inner room

    I completed week two of “Magnify 90”, this week emphasized the virtue of affability and the writings of St. Angela Merici. I had to look up the definition of affability, it means being easy to approach and talk to, friendliness, good natured and pleasant. To encourage and lift up, the virtue of friendship. I feel…

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  • Let Go

    I have completed my first week of “Magnify 90” which highlights St. Gemma and the virtue of humility. Magnify 90 is a book that guides one through a new way of letting things go, for a period of time that distract us from God. It then adds in specific prayers and other suggestions to fill…

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  • Where are you going?

    The Lord has whispered these words to me – “where are you going?” A question that leads me into an array of emotions. I have been sitting with this question for weeks, do I face what is before me and go through it or do I take another way? I know in times of trouble…

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  • To Seek Him

    Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those whom His favor rests. Luke 2:14 The ordinary, hidden life is an extraordinary life, the little moments that turn my gaze to the Lord, to seek Him, just as the Magi did. It is a beautiful time, the Christmas season, where my attention…

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  • The Season of Christmas

    I like to spend time in the quiet of the early morning or the late night. The darkness of the sky showcases the stars as they bring forth their light. It is as if the earth is waiting for the brilliance of the sun to appear as it waits in silence. The sun is always…

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  • Rejoice

    The Third Sunday of Advent is called Gaudete Sunday from the Latin word meaning to rejoice.The rose colored candle is lit on the advent wreath and stands out from the violet candles. It is a time to rejoice, the Lord is soon coming. In the readings this past weekend, I hear in the letter of…

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