Wow, I just checked in to my blog to get a recipe for Friday night dinner, and I had to delete about two hundred spam comments! It is Lent now, and I just wanted to tell you all that this year I didn't give up food or drink like I usually do. I didn't even give up entertainment or the internet. I used to fast for all of Lent (except Sundays) and I thought I would do that forever, because it's such good penance. Plus I generally lose about six pounds!
Nope, this year I am not depriving myself of any temporal pleasures, because I have something better to offer God. On the advice of a good priest, I am putting into practice a spiritual mortification. Remember I posted here about Psalm 140 (3&4) in a post called A Prayer for Loose Lips? The psalm goes like this, and my Lenten penance is to perfect the practice of this psalm.
Set a watch , O Lord, before my mouth, and a door around my lips. May my heart not incline to evil words, to make excuses for sins.
The first few days were indeed hard, but it is getting easier to remember not to be so quick to answer every question or statement, and to actually keep silent on many things that really don't need a response. It's not my nature to do this, and it is indeed hard!
How is your Lent going?
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Prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas for thanksgiving after Holy Communion
Workman's prayer to St. Joseph
Glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain for me the grace to work in a spirit of penance for the expiation of my many sins; to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my inclinations; to work with gratitude and joy, considering it an honor to employ and develop, by means of labor, the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace, moderation and patience, without ever recoiling before weariness or difficulties; to work, above all, with purity of intention, and with detachment from self, having always death before my eyes and the account which I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God. All for Jesus, all for Mary, all after your example, O Patriarch Joseph. Such shall be my watchword in life and in death. Amen.
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O gentlest Heart of Jesus, ever present in the Blessed Sacrament, ever consumed with burning love for the poor captive souls in Purgatory, have mercy on the soul of your departed servant Joe. Be not severe in your judgement, but let some drops of Your Precious Blood fall upon him, and send, O merciful Savior, Your angels to conduct him to a place of refreshment, light and peace. Amen.
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Consecrated Hands
"Because out of reverence towards this sacrament, nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest's hands, for touching this sacrament." - ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologica
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I think I'd like to have your priest for my spiritual advisor!
When you aren't on your blog for a long time, spammers notice and take over. Don't know how they figure it out, but I've noticed it on a few blogs that have gone dormant and don't have comment moderation on.
I have been trying to curb the bad habit of gossip and to let go of a grudge I bear my next door neighbor. Both are hard and success has been minimal. I suspect it will take a lot more than 40 days to overcome!
I am reading St. Faustina's Divine Mercy Diary for the first time for Lent. This is proving helpful.
So glad to have you back! You were missed!
My Lent? Rocky! Temptation and vexation always multiply when I try to take on more penance!
For Friday dinner try this-make mac and cheese, with whatever pre-packaged glop you choose. Add 12 oz of tuna, and peas. Serve.
Now there's a penance!
BTW--Been waiting for you to get back.
Welcome back, PG! Wouldn't it be great if everybody in the world practiced a penance like this? How quickly things would change!
I know, I know....not gonna happen.
my Lent is going good thanks. :) i like that prayer. with a temperament like mine, it would do me well to say that prayer often.
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