Not sure what God has in store for you?
His plans are wondrous, loving and beautiful.
Accept Him, seek Him, love Him,
and return His love to those around you.
Prepare to be amazed, for
God is at work in you!
Accept Him, seek Him, love Him,
and return His love to those around you.
Prepare to be amazed, for
God is at work in you!
In Conclusion
1 We Are Loved: In what ways do you feel God’s great love for you?
2 Following the Holy Family: In what ways does the Holy Family inspire you in your own apostolate?
3 Called To Faith: What are three things that have attracted you the most to faith?
4 Accepting God’s Love: In what ways do you accept God’s love?
5 Loving God Back: How do you love God in return?
6 Sharing Jesus’ Passion: Has suffering impacted your service to God and neighbor?
7 His Resurrection and Our Journey: What events in your own life parallel Jesus’ Resurrection?
8 The Crucial Role of Sanctity: What are some things that you can do to increase your sanctity?
9 The Greatest Commandment: How are you faithful to God’s greatest commandments to love Him with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself?
Sources and References
The Old and New Testament verses referenced throughout this book are quoted from The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America, 1989).
Preface
1. “God has no need…” St. Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1996),
1 We Are Loved
2. “If you live for Christ…” Fulton J. Sheen, Our Grounds for Hope (Totowa, New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 2000), 36.2 Following The Holy Family
3. “Mary’s greatness consists in the fact…” Pope Benedict XVI, Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas Est (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2005), #41.4. “…He now sensed guilt to such an extent…” Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1977), 321-322.
4 Accepting God’s Love
5. “The Gospel of Luke shows Jesus continually exercising His ministry of pardon” Ed. Raymond E. Brown, S.S.; Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.; Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., The Jerome Biblical Commentary Vol. II: 44 (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1968), 161.5 Loving God Back
6. “…love is repaid by love alone…” St. Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1996), 195.
7. “See, then, all that Jesus lays claim to from us…” St. Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1996), 189.
8. “If Jesus Christ thirsted for souls…” Fulton J. Sheen, The Rainbow of Sorrow (New York: Garden City Books, 1938) 62-63.
6 Sharing Jesus' Passion
9. “Every pain patiently borne, every blow to self…” Fulton J. Sheen, Our Grounds For Hope (Totowa, New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 2000), 36.10. “Every tear, disappointment and grieved heart is a blank check… Fulton J. Sheen, Our Grounds For Hope (Totowa, New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 2000), 14.
7 His Resurrection and Our Journey
11. “The reason moments of catastrophe may be the eves of spiritual victory…” Fulton J. Sheen, Our Grounds For Hope (Totowa, New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 2000), 31-32.
12. “to become a source of love, we must constantly drink anew from Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, the original source of love, for it is from His pierced heart that the love of God flows…” Pope Benedict XVI, Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas Est, (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2005), # 7.
8 The Crucial Role of Sanctity
14. “…the perfection of the Christian life…” Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy (Rockford: Tan Publishers, 1996), 9.13. “God wants us ‘all to be saved’ Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy (Rockford: Tan Publishers, 1996), 6.
15. “Baptism has deposited within us this seed of sanctity...” Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy (Rockford: Tan Publishers, 1996), 9.
16. “…our following of Christ, who is God made man..” Christology, Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Archives, Inter Merifica, www.therealpresence.org/archives, 1997 (accessed March 31, 2008).
17. “It has been said it makes no difference…” Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ (New York: Image Books, 1977), 313.
9 The Greatest Commandment
18. “The blood of Christ…” Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of Life (New York: Random House, 1995), 45.19. “Charity gave me the key to my vocation…” St. Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1996), 194.
20. “No human act is sterile…” Rev. John A. Harden, S.J., S.T.D., He Will Come Again to Judge the Living and the Dead (Bardstown: Eternal Life), audiotape.
