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Anger and Hatred:
Give your family and everyone you come across, an extra dose of love each day.
Judging Others:
Before making any judgments, recall how Jesus overlooks our faults. 
Discouragement:
Hold on to Jesus’ promise that He has a perfect plan for your life.
Complaining:
When you find yourself about to complain, close your eyes, and recall some of the little moments of joy Jesus has given you.
Resentment or Bitterness:
Work on forgiving those who may have hurt you.
Spending Too Much Money:
Try to reduce your spending by ten per cent and give those savings to the poor.
LENT 2012
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FASTING |
FEASTING |
| Fast from ANGER | Feast on PATIENCE |
| Fast from COMPLAINING | Feast on APPRECIATION |
| Fast from CRITICISM | Feast on PRAISE |
| Fast from GOSSIP | Feast on PURPOSEFUL SILENCE |
| Fast from TEMPER | Feast on PEACE |
| Fast from JEALOUSY | Feast on LOVE |
| Fast from PESSIMISM | Feast on OPTIMISM |
| Fast from PRIDE | Feast on HUMILITY |
| Fast from RESENTMENT | Feast on CONTENTMENT |
| Fast from SELFISHNESS | Feast on SERVICE |
| Fast from SELF-PITY | Feast on JOY |
| Fast from WORRY | Feast on DIVINE ORDER |
Christmas Quotes – Thoughts about God
The Son of God became a man to
enable men to become the sons of God.
-C.S.Lewis
(Mere Christianity)
~~~~~What are we to of make of
Jesus Christ? . . .
The real question is not what
we are to make of Christ,
but what is He to make of us? C.S.Lewis
~~~~~~ God’s gifts
put man’s best dreams
to shame. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
~~~~~~ Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love,
a time when the love of God and love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and
bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives
manifest the presence of God.
-George F. McDougall
~~~~~~ Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
-Christina Rossetti
~~~~~~ JOY 
Somehow, not only for Christmas,
but all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others,
Is the joy that comes back to you.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
~~~~~~ God sent a star to light the night for
The Way, The Truth, The Life–His Son.
He sent the Light of Life to prove His heart
so we would invite His Son into our own.
God has given us all the light we’ll ever
need to find peace on earth,
goodwill to men.
-Pamela F.Dowd
PEACE IS . . . 
~ gazing at the stars with the knowledge
that you know their Creator.
~ closing your eyes in sleep without fear
of tomorrow.
~ the stillness in your heart when trouble swirls
around you.
~ a quiet mind in a raging world.
- unknown
~~~~~~ Where there is faith, there is love;
Where there is love, there is peace;
Where there is peace, there is God;
And where there is God; there is no need.
-Leo Tolstoy
~~~~~~ The flow of
blessings in our
life is directly
related to
our passing
blessings along
to someone else.
-Thomas Kinkaid
~~~~~~ The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when he gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son.
- Robert Flatt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blessed is
The season which
Engages the whole
World in a
Conspiracy of love.
-Hamilton Wright Mabie
How many observe
Christ’s birthday!
How few, his precepts!
O! ’tis easier to keep
Holidays than
Commandments.
-Benjamin Franklin
~~~~~~ This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.
- Frank McKibben
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GIVE THE FOLLOWING GIFTS: 
To your enemy . . .forgiveness,
To your opponent . . .tolerance.
To a friend . . . your heart.
To a customer . . . service.
To all men . . .charity.
To every child . . . a good example
To yourself . . .respect
-Author Unknown
Love alone!
It is through love alone that we can become pleasing to God.
St. Theresa of the Child Jesus
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Let all my world be silent in your presence, Lord,
so that I may hear what you may say in my heart.
Guigo II
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You can have anything you want if you want it esperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the ENERGY that created the world. Sheila Graham
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This is Our Lord’s will: that we trust Him and search for Him, enjoy Him, and delight in Him, and comfort and strengthen ourselves, as by His help and grace we may, until such time as we see Him face to face. 
Julian of Norwich
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Today, it is not nearly enough merely to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent. Simone Weil
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Hate cannot destroy hate, but love can and does. Not the soft negative thing that has carried the name and misrepresented the emotion, but love that suffers all things and is kind, love that accepts responsibility, love that marches, love that suffers, love that bleeds and dies for a great cause – but to rise again. Daniel A. Poling 
