Healing, Transforming Love:

Jesus, Living Water, help me move beyond my guilt and shame. Teach me to love myself with an unconditional love that heals, transforms and reconciles.…Help me open myself to your redeeming love, trust my own goodness and learn to love myself. In my thirst I turn to you.


Fasting:

Fasting is useless, unless we have a deeper meaning to it e.g. discipline ourselves or to offer it as a sacrifice for certain prayer intentions etc. If we fast because we want to be Christ-like, then such an act will surely deepen our faith and personalize our love for Jesus.

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Mary Most Holy goes on being the loving consoler of those touched by the many physical and moral sorrows which afflict and torment humanity. She knows our sorrows and our pains, because she too suffered, from Bethlehem to Calvary.... Mary is our Spiritual Mother, and the mother always understands her children and consoles them in their troubles.

- Pope John Paul II