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TODAY’S WORD…

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‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways,’ says the Lord.
‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.’

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– Isaiah 55:8-9 (NRSV)

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QUOTE…

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“God’s logic is so different to ours.

This is why following the Lord

always demands of all of us a profound conversion,

a change in our way of thinking and living,

it demands that we open our hearts to listen,

to let ourselves be interiorly enlightened and transformed.

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A key point on which God and man differ is pride:

in God there is no pride,

because He is the complete fullness of love

and is entirely disposed to love and give His life;

in us, however, pride is deeply rooted and requires constant vigilance and purification.

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We, who are little, aspire to appear big, to be the first,

while God, who is truly great, is not afraid to abase Himself and become last.”

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– Pope Benedict XVI

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REPETITIVE PRAYER FOR TODAY…

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Sweet Virgin Mary, Mother of God,

pray for me that I may change my way of thinking and living,

and teach me how to faithfully follow Jesus

on the path of love and humility.

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