A Look Within: Some ideals for consideration
Living A Sacramental Life.
We are each called to flourish as made in the image and likeness of God. Find some time to imagine the kind of person God is calling you to be. Perhaps in a journal, record your sentiments prompted by the following insights. Take these to prayer or share them with your friends.
I feel a longing to...
1. Have a more profound experience of reconciliation by reflecting on the Beatitudes as part of my examination of conscience. Move from counting sins on my fingers to counting on my heart.
2. Become more conscious and active in the Mass by understanding six faith dynamics that I experience in my life and that are reflected in the Mass.
3. Appreciate the mystery and the gift of the Eucharist and align my life of vocation, response and sending to the Catholic liturgy.
4. Live out more fully my Baptismal anointing as one who makes holy, one who teaches and one who is a servant to others.
5. Experience the conforming to Christ in the Beatitudes expressed in my daily living as priest, prophet and king.
6. Move from Confirmation to Conformation. Appreciate what it means to follow Christ by embracing the ethics of the Decalogue, the Beatitudes and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Directed to the Good. In Virtue, Habits and Vocation.
7. Live a life of virtuosity by embracing the cardinal virtue of prudence, which is the executor of the conscience’s call to choose good over evil.
8. Appreciate how prudence is the charioteer over the wild horses of justice, fortitude and temperance.
9. Learn what it means to praise God, revere my parents, family and elders, respect the virtuous and respond to those in need in the virtue of justice.
10. Live in holy boldness, controlling my fear and moderating my assertiveness. Learn the power of patience and perseverance. And appreciate confidence and magnificence in working with others.
11. Develop a disposition of magnanimity through the virtue of fortitude.
12. Reasonably address moderation in managing my base desires of passion, hunger and other attractions.
13. Embrace how good health, exercise and nutrition are virtuous habits directed to my unique call.
14. Appreciate what it means live as the image and likeness of the Creator’s goodness, to live in right-relationship by building up the kingdom here and now as one directed toward the good and as one ready and disposed for the calling to serve.
15. Examine the six faith dynamics of: vocation, conversion, mission, transformation, providence and gratitude in my active life and see these elements alive in the Mass, in the Lord’s Prayer, in the lives of Peter and Mary and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
A Better Person, Spouse, Parent and Spiritual Companion.
16. Set a cadence of good nutrition, well-being and moral commitments.
17. Set a cadence for acts of love to partner/spouse, children, family of origin and friends.
18. Set commitments to acts of priestly, prophetic and kingly service daily as called for through my baptism.
19. Read and journal daily.
20. Be part of a Study Group as I walk through this time of action and reflection.
21. Develop a new level of potential and responsibility as one who is made in the image and likeness of the Creator.
23. Progress in moral reasoning and development.
24. Become a better person, more loving spouse, caring parent, and spiritual companion/friend as well as develop an inspiring appreciation of the Catholic Church’s teaching, liturgy and wisdom.
Move from your head to your heart!
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