One Walk

When: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:00 AM to Friday, February 22, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).

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Words of Jesus

"Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest."

Matthew 20:27

The home must be in accord with the Church, that all harmful influences be withheld from the souls of children. Where there is true piety in the home, purity of morals reigns supreme.

— St John Vianney

Abba, Father, Lord God, today's Lenten pray ask You to watch over Your Church, and guide it with Your unfailing love. Protecting us from what could harm us and leading us to what will save us. Help us always, for without You we are bound to fail. Yet what harms us most is 'us'; through our weakness of heart and failure to be obedient we fail You. Help me to understand and to find the way to walk in and with Jesus each moment. Meditating of the words of St. Louis de Montfort show me how to Deny myself while carrying my cross, how to follow Jesus Christ in every thought, word and act; for If I am ashamed of the Cross of Jesus Christ and fail His passion, how will He not be ashamed of me before You my Lord God, His Father. How does one learn to Love the Cross and Desire: crosses, contempt, pain, abuse, insults, disgrace, persecution, humiliations, calumnies, illness, injuries, unless Jesus prevails in their hearts and His Passion on the Cross prevails and is present in my mind and on my heart every moment. It is His Divine love Humility, Submission, Patience, Obedience that is my example: complete in me what we have begun in Jesus, help me be prompt in forgiving, joyful in all things, blind to the ways under the sun, persevering in likening my heart to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Thank you for awakening my spirit and for touching me this day, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Jeremiah 17:5-10<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Jer&ch=17&bv1=5&ev1=10>

5 Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it? 10 "I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."

Psalm 1:1-4, 6<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Ps&ch=1&bv1=1&ev1=4&bv2=6&ev2=6>

1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. 4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away. 6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Luke 16:19-31<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Luke&ch=16&bv1=19&ev1=31>

19 "There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate lay a poor man named Laz'arus, full of sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Laz'arus in his bosom. 24 And he called out, `Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Laz'arus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.' 25 But Abraham said, `Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Laz'arus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.' 27 And he said, `Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house, 28 for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.' 29 But Abraham said, `They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.' 30 And he said, `No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' 31 He said to him, `If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.'"

Lenten Reflections<http://origin.ewtn.com/faith/lent/>

Pope Benedict XVI Encyclical Letter<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html>

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