Self-Sacrifice:

All I want, all I feel, all I experience…Comes from you. Only you. You give me Life, Hope, Faith, Inspiration, Love…Life to live to its fullest, in order to more fully serve you.

Vigilance – Faith:

To be vigilant in our faith is never easy as we can be distracted and lured away from God by either the strong attractions of the secular world or discouraged by our hurts or be blinded by our pride. We need to seek God’s divine strength daily to live more fully in His ways.

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Among many small pearls there is the one; and in a great take of fish there is the beauty-fish; and by time and toil truth will gleam forth, if a good helper is at hand. For most benefits are supplied, from God, through men.

- Saint Clement of Alexandria

Liturgical action is given a more noble form when sacred rites are solemnized in song, with the assistance of sacred ministers and the active participation of the people.... Choirs must be diligently promoted, but bishops and other pastors must ensure that, whenever the sacred action is to be celebrated with song, the whole body of the faithful may be able to contribute that active participation which is rightfully theirs.... Gregorian chant, other things being equal, should be given pride of place in liturgical services. But other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony, are by no means excluded.... Religious singing by the people is to be skillfully fostered, so that in devotions and sacred exercises, as also during liturgical services, the voices of the faithful may ring out

- Constitution on the Liturgy, 112-118