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Your Destiny...Your Duty

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(Image Source - Wikimedia Commons ) This is the Will of God – your sanctification.  To be a child of Mary means to be a saint.  That is your destiny.  That is your duty.  That is the one work of your life and your life's only work…there is only one sorrow: not to be a saint.  God has willed that you be a saint; has made it the whole purpose of your life, and the only meaning of all your living.  Rev. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O.

Sometimes We Miss The Obvious

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Image Source: WikimediaCommons ) The chief penance and mortification God asks from most of us is a complete fulfillment of the duties of our state of life. Father Charles Hugo Doyle

Look Into The Mirror To See Both The Cause And The Solution

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(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The causes of evil are not to be found outside man, but, above all, in the depth of his heart.  Its cure also comes from the heart.  Consequently, Christians must rebel against the debasing of man, through a sincere determination to be truly converted themselves, and must show forth in their own lives, the joy of being truly freed from sin…by means of a sincere repentance, their firm resolution of amendment and the courageous confession of their faults. Saint John Paul II (Pope)