Keep Christ in your Heart

Keep Christ in your mind and heart

For devotion to Christ and Mary is the path to heaven.

For who, having the wisdom of God,

Would not want to be devoted to Christ.

For Christ died for our sins and

Rose from the dead.

The Oil in Our Lamps

Our Father who lives in our heart is a light to all nations.

The oil in the lamps of his precious children

Lets the Lamb of God lead us on our way to heaven.

And lets virtue flow from our hearts like a river.

For you are the God of justice and compassion.

Amen

Dear Jesus, our Savior, and Hope

Make us aware of the needs of others

Whether they be physical or spiritual

That we may attend to them,

Because this is like helping Jesus, himself

Guide us, teach us,

Put into our hearts everlasting

Love for the one true God

And each other

Be forever a teacher to us all.

Fill our hearts with 

Joy, virtue, and compassion

So that we may live

The true joy of our heavenly Father

Amen

A Temple in Your Heart

The one true God builds his temple

In the hearts of his devotees.

First, by contrition, he cleans them from sin,

Then he teaches them to do what is right, and

To be honest in all things

Finally, he makes their hearts a light for all people.

Amen

For the Love of God

Dearest Jesus, our Savior, and hope:

Put into our hearts a light that never goes out.

Fill our hearts with oil of faith, hope, and love

Prepare our minds to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit.

Put God’s words into our minds and hearts

So, we may carry them out with love for God.

That our hearts may become pure from the love of God

And that purity may become a light for mankind.

Amen

Honesty is the Law of God

God wants our honesty 

In all things and in all our devotions.

Without honesty, 

God will accept nothing from us.

Our sacrifices will be worthless,

For God's Law, first written on stone, 

Now resides in our hearts and minds.

God's Law is first and foremost 

Honesty in all things.

Then kindness, love, gentleness, and last but not least, 

Compassion for all men.

Honesty makes our hearts into 

Temples of the living God

Dishonest people will not have 

God dwelling within them

For He will live in the hearts and minds of 

People who are honest.

God cannot and will not live 

In the hearts of unrepentant, dishonest people,

Because he is the truth for all times and places.

Amen

Love God and Your Neighbor - Day 9

Oh Jesus savior of all men

You opened the way to heaven
Through your teachings

You taught men to love God and their neighbor

Treating all people with kindness, compassion, and courtesy

That all people might come to know God and love Him

And to love their neighbor as they do themselves