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March 13, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
We are not free. Most people can’t go a day without a cup of coffee, yet we think we are free. We need to wake up. We don’t need someone to come across the ocean and enslave us. We have enslaved ourselves.
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March 12, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
From time to time, people will ask, “Do you have a temper?” The truth is that we all have a temper. The real questions are: Are you able to control your temper? Are you in control of your temper, or is your temper in control of you?
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March 10, 2018
by FORMED.ORG
Have you ever walked from a dark room out into the sunlight? It hurts. You end up squinting and wiping away tears from watery eyes. It takes time to adjust, and you may wish to return to the darkness where it’s a bit more comfortable. Think of the reverse scenario: when you go from the sunlight into a darker room. Again, it is hard to adjust, and this time you can hardly see. Everything is blurry and out of focus. God calls us to live in the light. The transition to the light can be painful if we are accustomed to the comfort of the dark, but we see much better and can walk in confidence when we’re in the light rather than stumbling through life unsure of where we are going in darkness. Are you open to Jesus’s invitation to live your life in the light of truth today?
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March 10, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
We need to move beyond the notion that discipline is someone else telling us what to do. We need to celebrate the self-discipline that liberates us.
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March 10, 2018
Urge Congress to Enact the Conscience Protection Act Congress will decide soon (most likely during the week of March 12) whether to include the Conscience Protection Act (CPA) in must-pass government funding legislation. It is critical that we flood our Senate and House offices immediately with emails and calls advocating for the Conscience Protection Act. The CPA is much-needed, common-sense legislation that will clarify federal law and ensure that those who provide health care and health coverage can do so without being forced by government to violate their deeply held religious beliefs by participating in the destruction of innocent unborn children. Please take a moment right now to email and call your representatives in Congress and tell them that we expect them to protect our religious freedom – our most cherished liberty.
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March 9, 2018
Today’s gospel presents to us the greatest love of all: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.” (JN 3:16)
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March 9, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
It is one thing not to believe something; it is something completely different and debilitating to believe and not live in that belief. Do you live what you believe?
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March 8, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
We are constantly overwhelmed by voices—the voices of parents, friends, teachers, mentors, coaches, siblings, employers, experts, celebrities, politicians, preachers, advisors, consultants. Who are you listening to?
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March 7, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
The inner conflict and dividedness that plague so many people are the results of living our lives contrary to the good things we believe. Are you living a double life? A triple life? A quadruple life? Are you living one life at school, another at work, one at home, one at church, and another with your friends? Are you one person when you are with some people and another person when you are with others? How many lives are you living?
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March 6, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
It’s time to find something you can do and do passionately. Don’t delay. Do something today to move in the direction of an occupation or position that you are more passionate about. It may take five years before you are in a role that engages you in the way you yearn to be engaged, but if you don’t start today, it will take five years and one day.
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March 5, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
If you could do anything, what would you do? God has bold dreams for you; bigger dreams than you can comprehend at the moment.
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March 3, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
If you work forty hours a week after graduating college, and retired at the age of sixty-five, you will have worked at least 86,400 hours by the time you retire. That’s a lot of our lives. So how do we find meaning in our work?
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March 2, 2018
by FORMED.ORG
Today's readings are the midway point in our Lenten journey, focusing on the relationship between God's laws and the state of man's heart. The First Reading begins with words many of us have heard frequently throughout our lives—the Ten Commandments. Before giving all of the Commandments, God proclaims to Moses, "I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery" (Exodus 20:2). The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament: loving, merciful, steadfast, and forgiving, who seeks the happiness of man. The Father provides the Chosen People with the Ten Commandments to show them how to love God and neighbor properly, and cultivate a pure and holy heart. Above all, the Ten Commandments help guide us to our ultimate end: life with the Divine.
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March 2, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
Most people don’t like their work, and they don’t like to work. So why do we work? What is the meaning of work? What value is work designed to bring to our lives? Read pages 79–87 (paperback version) or pages 83–91 (hardcover version).
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March 1, 2018
by Best Lent Ever
Just because you do something in the privacy of your home, behind closed doors, with no one else involved, or with no one else to witness the act, does not mean that act does not affect other people. Every human act affects the future of humanity. Your actions, however private, have consequences for you and all of humanity. Read pages 72–77 (paperback version) or pages 76–81 (hardcover version).
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