Good Friday: Fix Your Eyes

Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

Hebrews 12: 1-3

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

   fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

   For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

2.     How did I love God today?

Holy Thursday: Alive in You

Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

Galatians 2:19-21

For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

                                     2. How did I love God today?

March 27: Clanging Cymbals

 Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

1 Corinthians 13: 1-7

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

   Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, Love does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

2.     How did I love God today?

March 26: Love

Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

Romans 8: 31-39

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

   Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Just as it is written,

"FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED."

 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

2.     How did I love God today?

March 25: Believe.

 Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

John 20: 27-31

Then He said to Thomas, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing." Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed." Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

March 23: Jesus, Remember Me

Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

Luke 23: 39-43

One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, "Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!" But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong." And he was saying, "Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!"

    And Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise."

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

2.     How did I love God today?

March 22: To the end...

 Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

John 13: 1-7

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.

Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter."

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

2.     How did I love God today?

March 21: Unbind him

 Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

John 11: 38-44

So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, "Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?" So they removed the stone Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me."

   When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

2.     How did I love God today?

March 20: Rest

 Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

Matthew 11: 28-30

"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

2.     How did I love God today?

March 19: The Lost Sheep

 Ok, so here’s the deal every morning…

1.     You pray the Sign of the Cross

2.     You offer God your day…

This just means that you tell Him everything that’s coming up that you know of, then you say “take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”…So this way your small sacrifices are being united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.

3.     You read the Bible Passage.  Then pause for like a minute or two.

4.     Ask yourself 2 Questions:

a.     What is the keyword or theme of this passage?

b.     What does this have to do with me?

Luke 15: 1-7

Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him. Both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." So He told them this parable, saying, "What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

   At the end of the day, before you go to bed….

                        Ask yourself 2 Questions:

1.     How did God love me today?

2.     How did I love God today?

March 18: Birds and Flowers

Ok, so heres the deal for the morning:

1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day
This just means that you tell Him everything thats coming up that you know
of, then you say "take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" So this way your small sacrifices are being
united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?

Luke 12: 27-34

"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!

 And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you. Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

At the end of the day, before you go to bed,
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today?

March 16: Good Gifts

Ok, so heres the deal for the morning:

1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day
This just means that you tell Him everything thats coming up that you know
of, then you say "take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" So this way your small sacrifices are being
united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?

Luke 11: 9-13

"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

   "For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

   "Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

   "Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he?

   "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"

At the end of the day, before you go to bed,
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today?

March 15: Sent Out

Ok, so heres the deal for the morning:

1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day
This just means that you tell Him everything thats coming up that you know
of, then you say "take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" So this way your small sacrifices are being
united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?

Matthew 5:35-38

Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.

   Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.  Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. "Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest."

At the end of the day, before you go to bed,
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today?

March 14: Glory

Ok, so heres the deal for the morning:

1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day
This just means that you tell Him everything thats coming up that you know
of, then you say "take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" So this way your small sacrifices are being
united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?

Luke 9: 28-36

Some eight days after these sayings, He took along Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. And while He was praying, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing became white and gleaming. And behold, two men were talking with Him; and they were Moses and Elijah, who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.  Now Peter and his companions had been overcome with sleep; but when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men standing with Him. And as these were leaving Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tabernacles: one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah"--not realizing what he was saying. While he was saying this, a cloud formed and began to overshadow them; and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.  Then a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My Son, My Chosen One; listen to Him!" And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent, and reported to no one in those days any of the things which they had seen

At the end of the day, before you go to bed,
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today?

March 13: Follow Me

Ok, so heres the deal for the morning:

1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day
This just means that you tell Him everything thats coming up that you know
of, then you say "take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" So this way your small sacrifices are being
united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?

Luke 9: 23-25

And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

   "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself ?"

At the end of the day, before you go to bed,
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today?

March 12: Where is Your Faith?

Ok, so heres the deal for the morning:

1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day
This just means that you tell Him everything thats coming up that you know
of, then you say "take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" So this way your small sacrifices are being
united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?

Luke 8: 22-25

Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out.

   But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger.

  They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm.

   And He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?"

At the end of the day, before you go to bed,
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today?

March 11: Forgiven

Ok, so heres the deal for the morning:

1. You pray the Sign of the Cross
2. You offer God your day
This just means that you tell Him everything thats coming up that you know
of, then you say "take all that I think, do, and say and I unite it all with
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" So this way your small sacrifices are being
united to His all-powerful and saving sacrifice on Calvary.
3. You read the Bible Passage. Then pause for like a minute or two.
4. Ask yourself 2 Questions:
a. What is the keyword or theme of this passage?
b. What does this have to do with me?

Luke 7:37-43

And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume, and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.  Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner."   And Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." And he replied, "Say it, Teacher."

   "A moneylender had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. So which of them will love him more?"   Simon answered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

At the end of the day, before you go to bed,
Ask yourself 2 Questions:
1. How did God love me today?
2. How did I love God today?