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PHILLIPIANS 2:12-15*❤️
Work for your salvation in fear and trembling, for it is God, for his own loving purpose, who puts both the will and the action into you. Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing and then you will be innocent and genuine, you will be children of God.


Ps 94: ..
Come in; let us bow and bend low;
let us kneel before the God who made us:

for he is our God and we
the people who belong to his pasture,
the flock that is led by his hand. ❤️

Wednesday -highlights - liturgy of the hours - evening prayer

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DID POPE FRANCIS SAY THAT?

Here is an interesting article I found -
thedeaconsbench.com/the-pope-said-what/

I was not sure if the image making rounds on social media below is from Pope Francis.

I have heard quite a few people , who are not fasting this lent, even on Fridays, why? BECAUSE POPE FRANCIS SAID SO? He did not! And we are glad 😅. We Should stop sharing this message, atleast unmodified ..because it is spreading a dangerous message...While the message is mostly good , and pushes us to focus on charity and relationships during lent, which is the very heart of the gospel ...

Hidden in it is an undermining and weakening of the spirit of bodily fasting and mortification ... which is not just a backbone of our prayer life , starting from ALL THE PROPHETS before Christ, and CHRIST HIMSELF...to the saints following after...but it is our backbone for a reason.

Prayer and fasting are our backbone, because they are our life source - the source of true Charity - in true prayer we encounter Christ, who transforms us into another Christ. And thus we have the power to do greatest good. This is WHY THE CHURCH HAS PERIODS LIKE LENT and ADVENT. To push us to go deeper into Christ, through PRAYER, FASTING and ALMS GIVING

We CANNOT TAKE OUT THE FIRST 2 PILLARS OF SANCTITY. If we do that, we become a social organization, but the problem is we are not, we are actually in battle for our own soul and all souls. It is a very serious mission. It is not an NGO. There are spiritual forces involved that respond not just to us, but to HIM in us who is higher than us. JESUS. The man of FASTING and PRAYER, even though he was God.

If Jesus fasted, fasting we must. Its not an option to encountering God, who is our greatest good ❤️.

The church is not just a social organization, it is a spiritual army. Living in true Charity is a battle, a spiritual battle, that cannot just be won by human goodness. Prayer/fasting are what primarily change us. The product of true prayer - is Charity.

Thus reducing emphasis on fasting and prayer, is counter productive. Even though emphasizing the product - Charity, that de emphasis on prayer risks to break the very source of the Charity we seek, that is our UNION WITH GOD, or atleast communion with him that leads to union.

That is why that first sentence from the meme...takes such a blow under the belt to the church, it is counter productive to the entire message...because our Union with God is the only transformative power we have. Christ is who changes us to love. Trivializing fasting and prayer, diminishes our union with God. Jesus himself, who was already perfect love...gave us an example...that to fight to do the will of God, fasting is NECESSARY ❤️


The message is not harmless. It is an easy ticket out of fasting and mortification. And that, my friends is a serious problem. It is a toolkit lost, a serious weapon and aid, taken out of our armoury in our difficult journey to Christ. We may not make it to the end without it. I dare say, we will never reach any real , transformative depths of prayer without it.

He said pray, that you may not come to temptation, also this kind only comes out through prayer and fasting. And he spent nights in prayer, and 40 entire days, God himself as man, FASTED. My dear 😂we have to fast 😅

Whoever wrote it may have had good intentions,☺️ but I have heard quite a few people saying they are not fasting even on Fridays...because POPE FRANCIS said what?😂

This exactly is how heresies were born. A bit of good, but a lot of harm hidden in the long run...sorry my words can be punchy... 😅but I hope it encourages us to stop sharing this message, or modify it and share the corrected perspective 🙏🏼❤️ .I , like the original writer also wrote this in good faith 😂 so please don't crucify my tone 😂 fellow pilgrims ❤️. #Happy lent, happy FASTING AND PRAYER 😂😂

I am open to someone checking where the image was the exact quote of Pope Francis ❤️ or counter checking the article...but my thoughts on the need for fasting and mortification...remain the same, they are a pillar of prayer, of the saints, a path of encountering God that will not change until the end if the age, and if we lose it, I dare say we have lost to a large extent a path to Christ himself 🔥#Peace 😅

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#Animals Strangely following instructions in the Bible/Church history ...🧐Did you know this Bible story 😂? Cows took the Ark home by themselves 😂?

I should do a series on this ..
* This story is new to me. I knew of the talking donkey,

And in church history - St.Anthony of Padua - the hungry donkey that preferred to bow before the Eucharist than eat hay

www.santantonio.org/en/content/miracle-mule

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The days when we are TIRED and you don’t feel like praying, are the days when we NEED the prayer the most

Pick up your Bible, pick up your worship , your rosary, and force yourself to START, GRACE WILL COME

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Wisdom 😂Sirach 51 … if you are struggling to learn or grow or just adulting😊# We can PRAY for wisdom, and keep WORKING AT IT😉

‘Why do you say you are lacking in these things,
and why do you endure such great thirst?
I opened my mouth and said,
Acquire wisdom[h] for yourselves without money.’

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# OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION 😅 IN SMALL THINGS & BUILDING GOOD HABITS

Dear Procrastinators Anonymous 😂How are you 😅. The time for our AA meeting has come once again 😂. We are Overcomers in Jesus name 😂😂Amen?

If you read till the end - you're a Ninja 😜

I am not yet one of these disciplined people in all things - YET 😅! I succeed in some things,but I fail much in other small things, and thus have much to learn! But I hope sharing these thoughts encourages someone else to pick up a goal to build great habits 😂 and try out these great ideas , from these disciplined people 😀


# My reading summary ☺️ from A Great Book ☺️

THE POWER OF ESTABLISHING STRUCTURE ☺️ TO BUILD GREAT HABITS

## 1. HAVE A ROUTINE - a specific time and place for morning and evening times - these are critical times which power our energy through out the day

BUILD A SYSTEM AROUND YOUR LIFE THAT ELIMINATES TEMPTATION RATHER THAN FIGHT IT.

🎯 DISCIPLINE is not fighting not to fall, its fighting to do so much good - that by extension we have no energy left to default to less productive ways to spend time or energy. ☺️☺️ We focus so much on growing productivity & virtue , such that we are rarely in unstructured situations that require extraordinary will power to do good.

☺️☺️#Don't fight the occasional laziness or temptation WITH SHEER WILL POWER 🤨, flee from it by building new habits that MAKE IT DIFFICULT 😎for you to waste time 😅!

😢 Living without structure :
1. WASTES TIME & ENERGY in unnecessary spontaneous decision making

2. WE END UP DEFAULTING TO THE EASIEST,& LAZIEST ROUTE

3. WASTED TIME == WASTED OPPORTUNITY. Wasted time is an opportunity cost, time that would rather have been spent building relationships with great friends,working a good hobby, driving our career or a good book 📚 😂if only we had planned for it 😀


EXAMPLE ☺️: Failing to plan our rest ...
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...usually DEFAULTS in us picking the Laziest activities of them all 😂 e.g scrolling on social media or TV or sleep

PROBLEM IS ☺️
The laziest route usually drains energy & lack often puts us in these constant situations that require extraordinary willpower to do good☺️ - like HOW MUCH WILL POWER DOES IT TAKE 😂 TO stop scrolling on tiktok after 45 minutes 😂? If we didn't plan something interesting to do after that 😂We need to tell them 😂
- you got it 😅☺️ 3000 TRILLION MEGAWARTS 😂

INSTEAD ☺️ PLANNING OUR REST brings joy, saves time, builds energy ☺️
- Planning for a phone call or a meet up with friends or family😂, or plan to catch up with tiktok but only for a specific time 😂, then after that you will need to get off social media, and work on a specific hobby or read a good book etc. The Bible is great too ☺️.

By ALL MEANS -JUST PLAN your rest 😂, they say ☺️. We've all done it before, and it worked, and we've all let ourselves go sometime too, and it didn't work 😂

As per the Bible ☺️
# don't fight temptation , flee from it! Avoid the situation to get lazy and waste time - all together 🙏🏽

EXAMPLE 2 ☺️ - THE SNOOZE BUTTON ⏰
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If the bad habit is hitting the snooze button in the morning, these disciplined people's 😂 suggestion is - don't just try not to snooze - MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR YOU RO SNOOZE 😂-

Put your phone in a different room before bed, so that when the alarm goes off - you HAVE TO walk out of bed to get it 😂

You may not need this everyday😂 but those seasons when you need extra hours in the morning for work, prayer or study, please try this ☺️I haven't tried it consistently yet, but I WILL - if I need it 😂! Join me as we strive to build small , but great habits this year 😂!

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So help us God! 😂. May WE implement them ☺️
# Building great habits that last a lifetime ☺️ Amen!

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If you read till the end - here is your Ninja certificate 🗞️😜 Thank you!

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Blessed mother has joined the chat 😂 Gen-z will kill us 😂 as they rewrite the nativity scene 😂 Anyway we're looking forward to the Epiphany ☺️

# borrowed image 😅

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PROCRASTINATION IN SMALL THINGS BREAKS BIG THINGS ! ☺️

Habits make the man, not just dreams or goals - but habits, small habits - everyday.

This new year, I am challenging myself to consistency in specific areas in my life I know I need more FORTITUDE in! 😅Because nobody will change them for me... I sadly 😂 HAVE to CHOOSE to cooperate with grace 😂 myself!

Sharing in case anyone else feels inspired to join in ☺️# Procrastination in small things breaks big things!

#St.Therese of Liseux
#St.Josemaria - consistency in doing small things with great love ❤️

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#Happy new year 😀In the image below, Mother Mary had a nice weave, just saying! 😂 and we have no objection 😂 .

Image borrowed from Njia whatsapp channel. Please follow them if interested ☺️in inspirational quotes by St.Josemaria on spiritual life

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