A great guideline in how to start the day

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St. Francis de Sales’ Four Tips for
Starting Your Day the Right Way

1. Give thanks

Adore God profoundly and thank him for the grace of preserving you during the preceding night, and implore his pardon if you committed any sin during the course of it.

2. Recall the goal

Remember that the present day is given to you in order to gain the future day of eternity, and make a firm purpose to employ the day well for this intention.

3. Make a plan

Anticipate what tasks, transactions, and occasions for serving God you may meet on this day and to what temptations of offending him you will be exposed, whether by anger, vanity or some other irregularity. By a holy resolution prepare yourself to make the best use of the means that will be offered to you to serve God and advance in devotion. On the other hand, carefully prepare to avoid, resist and overcome whatever may be encountered that is opposed to your salvation and God’s glory.

It is not sufficient simply to make this resolution; you must also prepare means of putting it into practice. For example, if I foresee that I will have to discuss some matter with a man who is emotional and prone to anger, I will not only resolve to keep from giving him offense but I will think of pleasant words to prevent his anger or get the assistance of someone who can keep him in good humor. If I foresee an opportunity to visit a sick person I will arrange the time and the comforts and helps I can bring to him. So also for the rest of such things.

4. Ask God for help

This done, humble yourself in the presence of God and acknowledge that by yourself you can do none of the the things you have decided on, whether of avoiding evil or of doing good. As though holding your heart in your hands, offer it along with all your good purposes to his Divine Majesty, beseeching him to take it under his protection and strengthen it so that it may turn out successfully in his service. Do this by such unspoken words as the following or their like: “Lord, here is this wretched heart of mine, which through your goodness has conceived of many good affections. Alas, it is too weak and miserable to do the good that it desires to do unless you impart your heavenly blessing. For the purpose I humbly beg your blessing, O merciful Father, through the merits of the passion of your Son, in whose honor I consecrate this day and all the remaining days of my life.” Invoke our Lady, your guardian angel, and the saints that they may assist you in this effect.

All these spiritual acts must be made briefly and fervently and if possible before leaving your room, so that by means of this exercise, whatever you do throughout the day may be watered by God’s blessing. I beg you never to omit this exercise.

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There you go! Four tips for getting the day off to the best start from a Doctor of the Church. Now, if anyone needs me, I’m going to go see if I can interest my children in the Watch Mommy Take a Nap game.

Raised by a radical feminist

Speaking out the truth.

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...and the words that deceive these poor young ladies, found in video below (or at the source link above).




"When one fears and flees from the truth, they are devoured by the deceived."

"The generation of false feminism, an era of deception and destruction to the very ones whom they claim to stand for."

The (Right) to (Privacy), and its distorted redefinition in our culture.

An eye opening book to read. The Right to Privacy http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_rights_and_wrongs_of_privacy/

....During the 1960s the courts invented a whole new meaning for the 'right to privacy' that was not true to its original meaning/to objective truth/to the Constitution. During the past four decades, things that were previously considered crimes have been turned into 'rights'.....

 Dr. Janet E Smith turns on the lights regarding the "right to privacy".  The influence this has had on our current culture is devastating. (the seeds of the culture of death-now this culture's normative direction)

....abortion, assisted suicide, homosexual acts, and more in the United States, has taken place under the banner of a “right to privacy” supposedly protected by the Constitution.....

What are your thoughts on the current debate about gay marriage?

As a philosopher the thing that strikes me most is the brilliant strategy of the gay marriage movement. Like Orwell in 1984 it sees that the main battlefield is language. If they can redefine a key term like "marriage" they win. Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world. Mussolini knew that too. He made it illegal for Italians to say "hi" in the traditional way. The Italian for "how are you?" is "Come sta lei?" "Lei" is the feminine inclusive pronoun. Fascist ideology held that this was emasculating and weak, so you had to say "Come sta lui?" from now on. "Lui" is the masculine pronoun. So no one could say "hi" in Italy without identifying themselves as pro or anti-fascist.

In America, the feminists have succeeded in exactly the same way. They've labeled the traditional inclusive language, the language of every single one of the great books of Western civilization written in English, as exclusive because it uses "he" and "man" to include women; and they've labeled their new artificial ideological invention, which insists, contrary to historical fact, that "he" and "man" exclude women--they've labeled this "inclusive" language. And amazingly, nearly everyone follows like sheep! So it will be easy, I think, for them to redefine marriage. Hell, they've already redefined "human beings" or "persons" so that they can murder the littlest ones whenever they want to. Why should they feel any guilt about dishonesty when they don't feel any guilt about murder?

I think you will find that there is an overwhelmingly strong connection between these three agendas: gay marriage, feminism, and abortion. Very seldom do you find people who are for one but not the other, or against one but not the other. And what they all have in common is this attitude toward language: it is what the most powerful and insidious propaganda film in history called "the triumph of the will." Already in Canada it is a crime, punishable by a fine or even imprisonment, to speak against homosexuality in public. Politically incorrect ideas, such as Biblical morality, are now defined as "hate speech."

One of the things I fear from this is an ugly backlash against homosexuals. If the truth is now whatever we will, then just as there is nothing to stop society today from redefining marriage, there is nothing to stop it tomorrow from redefining personal dignity and rights so as to take them away from homosexuals. The Nazis did exactly that. The Church is the best friend of homosexuals, both because she tells them they are made in God's image and have intrinsic dignity and rights and are called to be saints, and because she is the only social force left that insists on moral absolutes--so when they sin against themselves she says NO, just as she does to heterosexuals who sin against themselves sexually, but when others sin against them she says NO also. No one else dares to say NO. She speaks up for everyone, including homosexuals.

 -Dr Peter Kreeft

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Be Sober!

“Be sober and vigilant: because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is roaming around seeking whom he might devour.  Strong in faith, resist him knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world. ” 1 Peter 5:8-9.

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen, on love...

"Love implies knowledge:
The intellect sets up the goal or target. The will is the bow and the arrow combined directed to that target"

"Just as to speak means to produce a word and to flower means to produce blossoms, so to love is to breathe love, or to sigh or spirate"

"A kiss is a mere sign of love, but it is a giving of one's breath or spirit, which is inseparable from life itself."

The Person and the Family

"Aristotle points out that 'to live is to be' and that man is essentially a social animal. This is why you can make a strictly anthropological case for marriage.  To find ourselves we have to get out of ourselves. A couple need the interpersonal connections that happen in the intimacy of the home if they are to really flourish. We were not created to remain alone.  We are not what modern culture increasingly supposes: autonomous entities bouncing off one another."