I Thank You:

Lord, I thank you for all that you have provided—my joys and moments of triumph; my family and loved ones; all that is yet to be. I thank you also for the sorrows, the pains, the disappointments and unfulfilled dreams. I know these things strengthen my faith in your and in myself.

False securities – Faith:

To the Jews it is unthinkable that their magnificent and solid Temple could be destroyed. Yet, in today’s Gospel, Jesus warned them that nothing that is man-made can lasts forever. Are we holding on to any false securities in our lives? God is our only “security” that lasts forever.

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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

- Saint John of the Cross