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"Be grateful for your sins. They are carriers of grace."

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Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam – For the greater glory of God

If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight will illuminate you in God.

- St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk

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"Count your blessings and you will never finish"

- The late Fr. Jim Babb, SJ

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Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from God exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become sources of knowledge and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God’s purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment. 

-  Source:  Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. ,  The Sacrament of the Present Moment (As presented on p.284 in the The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life by  James Martin, S.J.)

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Consider the following excerpt and how each present moment provides such opportunity

…I would always remind parents that according to Jesus, they have, above all the others, the greatest chance of salvation. Why? Because in the famous Mathew 25 passage, Jesus gives us the only measurements for salvation – and all of them “in the world!” They are what we call today the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The beautiful part, I remind parents, it that they are built right into the secular, worldly, family life. You can’t escape them if you wanted to. Parents, in raising children, can’t avoid heaven. Feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, etc. They are all right there in the home (not the sanctuary). So, for example, in schematic form, it works like this:

- 2am bottle – giving drink to the thirsty
- Diapering – clothing the naked
- Cough medicine to the bedroom – visiting the sick
- Dad, can you help me with my homework? – instructing the ignorant
- Mom, what’ll I wear? – counseling the doubtful
- The cat died – burying the dead
- Hearing the kid’s prayer – praying for the living and the dead (endlessly)
- Are you still in the bathroom? – Visiting the imprisoned.

- Book Section – “Context for Collaboration”, Author unknown – Wisdom as read at a silent retreat

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