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How to Consecrate Your Family to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Fr. James Kubicki, S.J. from the Apostleship of Prayer has a beautiful post on his blog Truth and Charity about consecrating your family to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This is something my family has done with a group from our parish in church and we are so happy we did it. It is a faith commitment I recommend to everyone, particularly during this Year of Faith.
Lenten Spiritual Helps from St. Katharine Drexel
“The patient and humble endurance of the cross – whatever nature it may be – is the highest work we have to do.” "If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well,we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them." "Often in my desire to work for others I find my hands tied, something hinders my charitable designs, some hostile influence renders me powerless. My prayers seem to avail nothing, my kind acts are rejected, I seem to do wrong things when I am trying to do my best. In such cases I must not grieve. I am only treading in my Master's steps." “And here is the passive way – to be filled unto the fullness of God. The passive way – I abandon myself to it, not in a multiplicity of trials, extraordinary penances accomplished, practices of great works – but in peaceful abandonment to the tenderness of Jesus, which I must try to imitate, and by being in constant union with his meek and humble heart. What likeness is there between me and my Moth...