LENTEN BOOTCAMP DAY 19 – PATIENCE

LENTEN BOOTCAMP DAY 19 – PATIENCE

DAY 19 – VIRGIN MOST MERCIFUL, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE FRUIT OF PATIENCE!

Becoming “Masters of Mental Prayer.” Each day, during Lent, we will practice “Mental Prayer,” as we reflect on, and desire the greatest gifts, so God may show each one of us a “More Excellent Way” (1 Cor. 12:13). Do your best to find a minimum of 15 minutes each day. By the regular practice of Mental Prayer, you will become more attuned to the “Still Small Voice.”

GUIDE TO MENTAL PRAYER: HERE

GOD’S WORD

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. (1 Thes. 5:14)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1)

May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy. (Colossians 1:11)

My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy, knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience, and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing. (James 1:2-4)

HEROES’ WORDS

Patience is the companion of wisdom. –St. Augustine

Patience is the root and guardian of all the virtues. –Pope St. Gregory I

The virtue of patience is the one which most assures us of perfection. –St. Francis de Sales

If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured. -St. Colette

“Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is ‘timing’ … it waits on the right time to act for the right principles and in the right way.” -Venerable Fulton Sheen

MEDITATION

Patience: A form of the moral virtue of fortitude. It enables one to endure present evils without sadness or resentment in conformity with the will of God. Patience is mainly concerned with bearing the evils caused by another. The three grades of patience are: Lowest: to bear difficulties without interior complaint, Middle: to use hardships to make progress in virtue, Highest: to desire the cross and afflictions for Christ’s love, to have something to offer up, and to accept them with spiritual joy. (Fr. John Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary).

BY THY HOLY AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, OH MARY, DELIVER US FROM EVIL. AMEN – OUR LADY OF AMERICA

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