NEW YEAR’S REVOLUTIONS

I have one focus this year, to “have in me the mind of Christ Jesus,” (Philippians 2:5), which allows me to be in the presence of Christ and sit in the stillness of my heart and wait.

TEN THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

1. Be faithful to Christ and the Mystical Body. (one, holy, catholic, apostolic)
2. Be humble about who you are in the sign of God.
3. Love others as Christ loves you.
4. Recognize the responsibility you have assumed as an adopted son or daughter of the Father and seek God daily.
5. Feel what it means to be an outcast from the world, a foreigner in the land of the secular, one who bears the mark of our redemption on their souls (the cross).
6. Daily, convert your life to be more like Christ and less like the secular world. (existence without hope)
7. With all your heart, mind, and soul, go into that Temple of the Holy Spirit that you are, and sit in silence and solitude before the Ark of the Covenant.
8. Long to stand sentinel before the Blessed Sacrament in your parish and ask God to be merciful on you as a sinner.
9. Pray for souls in Purgatory that they may be loosed from their sins.
10. Join in collective prayer in the parish, the diocese, and the church universal.

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