Ch. 14
1. How do you foster integrity in your home?
2. What has been the price of integrity for your husband?
Ch. 15
3. What practical steps can you take in the face of misunderstood motives?
4. How do you guard your husband's reputation?
Personal Reflection-Examine how you speak of your husband, aloud and in your thoughts.
Action Point-Express your appreciation of your husbands goal to please God and do what is right.
Showing posts with label Chapter 14. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapter 14. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Chapter 14: Strengthening the Weak Point (Rule 14)
1. Using Fr. Gallagher's questions in the first paragraph of page 182, determine the weakest point in your spiritual life. How has the same old spiritual problem (aka root sin) "dressed up a bit differently perhaps" manifest itself in your life?
2. What practical steps can you take to strengthen this area?
3. Review the theological, cardinal and moral virtues (CCC 1803-1845) are there other areas of weakness to be addressed? Where are your natural strongholds?
4. Does St. Ignatius' description of the devil as essentially powerless change your view of the evil one?
2. What practical steps can you take to strengthen this area?
3. Review the theological, cardinal and moral virtues (CCC 1803-1845) are there other areas of weakness to be addressed? Where are your natural strongholds?
4. Does St. Ignatius' description of the devil as essentially powerless change your view of the evil one?
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Chapter 14: Training Children to Think
1. What practical means do you use to help keep your children innocent and pure?
2. How do you prepare them for/walk them through difficulties?
3. What role do guardian angels play in the spiritual life of your family?
4. Hebrews 12:11 basically admits that discipline is not fun; in the short term, it brings sorrow instead of joy. But what does it say is the long term result of this process of discipline [For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.]? Can you think of issues with your children where you tend to back off from discipline because the process is so uncomfortable? List two ways in which you will strengthen your approach to loving discipline this month. Ask for God's help and perhaps enlist the help of a friend to keep you accountable for this.
Action Point-Read from the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 6:25-34 ["Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, `What shall we eat?' or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well. "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.] Entrust your worries and those of your children to the Lord.
2. How do you prepare them for/walk them through difficulties?
3. What role do guardian angels play in the spiritual life of your family?
4. Hebrews 12:11 basically admits that discipline is not fun; in the short term, it brings sorrow instead of joy. But what does it say is the long term result of this process of discipline [For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.]? Can you think of issues with your children where you tend to back off from discipline because the process is so uncomfortable? List two ways in which you will strengthen your approach to loving discipline this month. Ask for God's help and perhaps enlist the help of a friend to keep you accountable for this.
Action Point-Read from the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 6:25-34 ["Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, `What shall we eat?' or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well. "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.] Entrust your worries and those of your children to the Lord.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Chapter 14: Why Make a Holy Hour?
Definition:
Black Mass (page 233)-the name given to a ceremony supposedly celebrated during the Witches' Sabbath, which was a parody of the Catholic Mass. Its main objective was the profanation of the Host, although there is no agreement among authors on how Hosts were obtained or profaned.
1. How do you make time in the Presence of Our Lord? (page 230)
2. Is the Sacred Heart enthroned in your home? What graces has this brought to your family? (page 232)
3. Share an example of how you have seen or felt grace through the hands of a priest. (page 233)
4. How have you become more "disposed to goodness" as your continue your walk with Christ? (page 235)
5. Remember your engagement story. How does Christ "engage" you? Do you respond to Him as you did to your fiance? (page 236)
6. What external escape from our worries and miseries do we seek? (page 237)
Black Mass (page 233)-the name given to a ceremony supposedly celebrated during the Witches' Sabbath, which was a parody of the Catholic Mass. Its main objective was the profanation of the Host, although there is no agreement among authors on how Hosts were obtained or profaned.
1. How do you make time in the Presence of Our Lord? (page 230)
2. Is the Sacred Heart enthroned in your home? What graces has this brought to your family? (page 232)
3. Share an example of how you have seen or felt grace through the hands of a priest. (page 233)
4. How have you become more "disposed to goodness" as your continue your walk with Christ? (page 235)
5. Remember your engagement story. How does Christ "engage" you? Do you respond to Him as you did to your fiance? (page 236)
6. What external escape from our worries and miseries do we seek? (page 237)
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