Mark your calendars!
This Friday, April 26, we will hold our monthly game of Catholic Trivia! We want you to join us over on @tojesussincerely IG stories for a virtual game of Catholic Trivia.
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Why should you play? This is a great opportunity to
- deepen your faith,
- have fun while you learn,
- and a chance to win cool prizes from Catholic artisans!
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This month's trivia sponsors are @almondrodtoys @ginnykochis and @prayerwinechocolate.
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Lindsey @almondrodtoys creates beautiful wooden blocks with images of Saints, and stories from the life of Jesus. She is donating a pair of blocks: St. Faustina and Divine Mercy – right in time for Divine Mercy Sunday! Each block includes Lindsey's original watercolor art on the front and a quote or a prayer on the back.
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Ginny @GinnyKochis is an inspiring mom and author of the blog: Not So Formulaic. She is donating her Family Toolkit! This resource will help you write your family mission statement, determine, your child’s temperament, discern your child’s gifts and talents – and prayerfully discern the best patron saint match for your child.
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Amy @prayerwinechocolate is an author with a heart for creating community. She is donating her Be Yourself journal for Catholic girls. The journal will help girls explore their identity and purpose in life in light of the wisdom of the Catholic Church, leading them to discover that they are beautifully and wonderfully made.
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Are you as excited as I am? Spread the word and study up on your Catholic trivia! Hint: This month's trivia theme is all about children in the Catholic faith.
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Questions will be posted first thing Friday morning. Be there!
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#4thFridayTrivia
Love serves.
At the Last Supper, Jesus did something that made the apostles uncomfortable.
He got down and washed their grimy disgusting feet.
Peter objected, "You will never wash my feet." It didn't seem right to have Jesus serving him in this way.
But Jesus insisted that he wanted to serve the apostles, and that he was setting an example of how they should love and serve each other.
He also showed us that we must allow ourselves to be served, too. We must allow others to love us by accepting their help.
Your CHARITY #VirtueChallenge today - in the most unpleasant of tasks, adopt an attitude of service in love of your neighbor.
And if someone offers you help, accept it, and allow them to give you this gift of love.
Stop demonizing others.
Maybe you don't even realizing you're doing it. But how many times do we say to ourselves "Why are they doing that to me?" *To me* is the error.
When we see every action that causes hurt as a personal attack from the other, we start to project evil intentions into their hearts.
When your husband stays late at work, leaving you home alone an extra hour with the kids.
When the kids have an extra whiny morning and throw tantrums about everything.
When that one friend keeps asking you to do that favor you've already said no to a thousand times.
Why are they doing this to me? Maybe they're not.
Believe that for a minute.
Maybe they're not doing anything *to you*. Their actions, though imprudent, hurtful, and even inconsiderate, may have nothing to do with you. They may not even recognize how it's affecting you.
That doesn't excuse it or make it okay.
But for a moment, stop demonizing them. Stop assuming they're out to get you.
And let's stop living in our own worlds and seeing everything as if it revolves around us.
For a minute, give your husband, your child, your friend, the great gift of stepping out of your world and into theirs.
What's this hurt of theirs they are projecting on you? What need are they trying to get met?
Help them find a way to meet that need without hurting you - because that's what they really want and need.
Today's CHARITY #VirtueChallenge - eliminate the phrase "why are they doing that to me" (and all related sentiments) from your thoughts and words.
Adam and Eve were happy as can be all nekkid in the Garden of Eden.
Enter disobedience. And as a direct result, clothing. Which means laundry. And lots of it.
Laundry is the bane of my existence. THIS is redemptive sufering eight here! Endless cycles of folding and stacking (and baby unfolding and unstacking) and wearing and washing and folding (and unfolding). When will it end? Not on this side of heaven.
So instead of trying to get "caught up" on my laundry, today I'm entering into the redemptive aspect of laundry. I'm embracing its penitential value. I'm folding each peace with a prayer of love for the person who wears it, in atonement for all the times I have not loved well.
Your CHARITY #VirtueChallenge today - go fold some laundry. Meditate on your fallen human nature, God's gift of redemption, and your call to combat evil with good by loving and serving others.
