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I declare, prayers for my children, monthly, Ephesians 3:20, Hebrews, Jeremiah, Corinthians, Proverbs, Philippians, John, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, free scripture printables, Rest, I declares, printable
St. Therese of Lisieux, the little flower, was gifted with the ability to take the riches of our Catholic faith, and to explain them in a way that a child could imitate. She based her doctrine on complete and unshakeable confidence in God's love for us and called it “the little way of spiritual childhood.”
St. Therese spent countless hours studying truths that had already been divinely revealed in Scripture which ignited a love in her heart for her Lord that was personal and transforming. As Pope Pius VII said, “She rediscovered the Gospel itself, the very heart of the Gospel.” There is much we can learn from her. We recognize that when a woman begins to open her heart to God, it's like the opening of a little flower. It can easily be bruised or crushed, and must be treated with the greatest of care. We gently introduce truths that can change your life.
We don't overwhelm you with spiritual lists of “to-do's” or intellectual study that can leave the heart out of the discussion. We want to keep it simple, but that doesn't mean it lacks power to transform.
I declare, prayers for my children, monthly, Ephesians 3:20, Hebrews, Jeremiah, Corinthians, Proverbs, Philippians, John, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, free scripture printables, Rest, I declares, printable
[…] am very comfortable doing. He is asking for my whole living, to give up the goods of this life that never satisfy and the vanities of the world that lead to emptiness. He wants me to shed worldly things that feed a false identity in exchange for clothing myself in everlasting beauty. He wants […]
[…] set out to destroy Jesus. I want to say, “Isn’t that crazy?" Then I look at our world and think, “hmmm…not so much.” I don’t watch much news, but I hear enough, and it appears that what motivated the scribes to kill Jesus thousands of years ago is happening today. We are terrified to […]
[…] leave church at the end of Mass. My family joins the rest of the congregation, filing out of the pews and down the long aisle where the world waits on the other side of the double doors. I’m content just to stay where I am. I also have moments before the Blessed Sacrament in […]
[…] than middle schoolers. These tweens come to our meetings with defensive walls and false masks that they have constructed as a result of living in our broken world. They keep these securely in place until they feel accepted, loved, and free to be themselves. And once that happens, floodgates open, and they are laughing, […]
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