“God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.”
– St. Mother Teresa
Make space to hear God’s whisper…
Too defensive?
“No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.” St. John Chrysostom
Getting too defensive?
Small acts of kindness
“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things …as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”- Teilhard de Chardin
Small gestures of kindness
Sunday homily: Vaccination for sin!
Regular Confession
“Little temptations to anger, suspicion, jealousy, envy, flirtation, vanity, frivolity, duplicity, affectation, deceit, unchaste thoughts – these are the trials which even the most devout and resolute person must constantly face.” St. Francis de Sales
The grace of going to regular Confession “has a remedial power and helps to remove the very roots of sin.” St. John Paul II
Bugs in your lampshade?
Embrace “your” cross
“I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.” Emily Dickinson