works of mercy
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September 11, 2025 – Clothed in Christ’s Mercy in Today’s Mass Readings
Clothe your heart in love. Measure with mercy. Let every breath become praise. ✨🕊️🎶 In Colossians 3:12–17, Paul drops the blueprint for a Christian lifestyle: “And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection.” This is… Continue reading
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September 9, 2025 – Rooted in Christ’s Mercy in Today’s Mass Readings
Rooted in Christ. Sent in mercy. Healing on level ground. ✝️🔥 📖 Colossians 2:6-15: Christ fills you with His life. Your baptism buried the old and raised you new. The Cross canceled the debt and exposed the powers. Live from… Continue reading
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September 6, 2025 – Perseverance & Hope in Today’s Mass Readings
He took enemies and made them family. ✝️ Today’s readings hit hard and heal deeper. Colossians 1:21–23: Once alienated, now reconciled in Christ’s body through the Cross. Persevere, stay grounded, do not drift from hope. “He has now reconciled… to… Continue reading
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September 1, 2025 – Hope & Salvation in Today’s Mass Readings
Hope is not hype. The King comes. ✨ 📖 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18: Grief meets the trumpet of God and the voice of an archangel. “We shall always be with the Lord.” This is concrete hope for funerals, fears, and every… Continue reading
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August 31, 2025 – Humility & Divine Joy in Today’s Mass Readings
“The way up is down.” ⬇️⬆️ Today’s readings flip the status game and open the door to joy. 👂 Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29: Real greatness is humility. Take the low road and find mercy. 🏠 Psalm 68:4-7, 10-11: God fathers… Continue reading
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August 28, 2025 – Watchful Love & Stewardship in Today’s Mass Readings
Ready hearts, busy hands. 🕯️🍞⏳ Readiness isn’t doomscrolling—it’s feeding someone at “the proper time.” In 1 Thessalonians 3:7–13, Paul shocks us with joy: “We now live, if you stand firm in the Lord.” His prayer? That we “increase and abound… Continue reading
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August 27th – Saint of the Day: Saint Caesarius of Arles
🔥 A bishop who prayed raging fires into silence, sold the Church’s treasures to ransom captives, and helped the Church proclaim that grace comes first—meet Saint Caesarius of Arles. ⛓️🕊️ His preaching wasn’t theory—it was a rescue plan. He called… Continue reading
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August 26th – Saint of the Day: Saint Jeanne-Élisabeth Bichier des Âges
She rode through the night for clandestine Mass… then turned prayer into action—founding the Daughters of the Cross, opening village schools, and nursing the forgotten. Saint Jeanne-Élisabeth Bichier des Âges shows how adoration becomes a lifestyle: receive Jesus, then go… Continue reading
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August 26, 2025 – Your True Self in Today’s Mass Readings
Stop polishing the outside of the cup. Let God light up the inside. ✨🕊️ In 1 Thessalonians 2:1–8, Paul refuses the applause game—he serves “not…to please human beings, but rather God.” He loves like a mother and shares “not only… Continue reading
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August 25th – Saint of the Day: Saint Joseph Calasanz
Free school. Zero tuition. Rome, 1597. Saint Joseph Calasanz bet everything on piety + letters 🕊️📚 He opened classrooms for the poor, welcomed the overlooked, and proved education is mercy in action. He even befriended Galileo and sent his brothers… Continue reading
Holy Manna! 