Opening Prayer
Together:
+ O God, may we discover for ourselves the secret to happiness, boldly spoken by St Augustine: to fall in love with You is the greatest romance, to seek You, the greatest adventure, to find You, the greatest human achievement.
*Pick one of the two below. Repeat it when you do another guide until it’s memorized, then do the next one.
The Greatest Commandment Prayer (The Shema)
- Teach us to live out Your greatest commandment: “Listen! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” -Deu 6:4-5*
*When Jesus was a boy, St Joseph taught Him to memorize and pray always these words.
Jesus told Venerable Sister Consolata Betrone: “The more that you love Me, the happier you will be!”
Choose Life & Blessing Prayer
- Help our family choose life: “Today, I set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life by loving God, obeying His voice and clinging to Him!” -Deu 30:19-20
Hail Mary…
Heavenly Father, You want us to enjoy the fullness of life. Please purify us now so that we may better enjoy this life and the next.
The O’Rourke kids managed to figure out Michael Cabonaro’s phone trick, but not the cloth thru the lamp trick.
The purgatory video helped us better understand the role of penance to repair the damage caused by our sins.