Nightcap: Fix It With Love.

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa

Breakfast: Growing Up!

"When the day comes, you will ask in My Name and it will not be me who asks the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you." - John 16:26. - To come to know and follow Jesus - to develop a relationship with Jesus - is to grow into a relationship with the God of Jesus. It is to come to full spiritual stature ourselves; to grow into a spiritual adulthood that is of God.

Men of Jamaica, how will your life lead us back to God?
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Breakfast: Now You Know!

"You did not choose me; it was I who chose you and sent you to bear fruit, fruit that will last." - John 15:16 - To be alive is to be responsible for the co-creation of the world. We are not here simply to get up and breathe every morning. We are here to finish what God began. We are here to bear fruit that endures.

Nightcap: Can You Be Trusted?

“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.” ― Blessed Mother Teresa

Breakfast; Be Patient, Trust God!

" A little while and you will see me no more; and then a little while and you will see me." - John 16:16. - God's time is not our time. We want everything explained and resolved and repaired now. But there are things to be learned by waiting. Patience and insight and growth all come slowly.

Are You Up To It?

"I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now." -John 16:12. - Jesus turns upside down all our old ideas about life and sin.That's why following Jesus is really so difficult. It demands that we begin to see and think and live differently than the world around us. To live like Jesus lived.

Breakfast : Seeing With The Eyes Of Jesus.

"And when the Spirit comes, he will vindicate the truth in face of the world with regard to sin, to the way of righteousness and to the Judgment." - John 16:8. - What we call 'sin' is often just the rules. What we call 'right' is so often simply what we prefer. What we call "God's judgment" is too often what we do not approve. But it is coming to see sin and rightness and judgment as Jesus sees them that is really the essence of the spiritual life.

Breakfast : I Can't Live Without You.

"Jesus said to his disciples, if you love me you will keep my commandments." - John 14:15. - To be steeped in the words and the heart of Jesus is to be steeped in the will of God. After that, I am not confused anymore about what to do and how to live. Then life simply becomes an enterprise of equally holy parts.

Nightcap: Profession of Faith

We begin our profession of faith with God. He is the origin, or beginning of everything created, and the end or purpose for which everything in the world exists. — from The Faith

Breakfast: God Is On Our Side.

"But you are not of the world since I have chosen you from the world; because of this the world hates you." - John 15:19. - As my motives and actions become more like Jesus, I will begin to think less like the world around me. I will begin to know more about the poor and demeaned. But that also means that the world will think less of me, too. Then what will I do?

Breakfast: Friends of Jesus; Are You?

"There is no greater love than this, to give one's life for a friend." - John 15:13. - We all give our lives to something- to getting ahead, to getting things, to getting noticed. We devote ourselves to ideas, to distraction, and most of all, to ourselves. But the real spiritual question is how much of ourselves, like Jesus, have we spent for the good of others?

Nightcap : The Seed of Truth

The seed of God's revealed truth has been sown in our hearts at Baptism. But that was only the beginning. We must do everything in our power to grasp the meaning of what we believe. Otherwise, the devil will come along and steal the faith from our hearts. — from The Faith

Breakfast: Yes We Can

"As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you; remain in My Love." - John 15:9. - Staying rooted in Jesus in a world that prefers money and things instead is not easy. It takes daily attention - a lifetime of awareness - but it is the only thing that brings us to real fullness of life.

Nightcap :What the World Needs

The whole world needs to hear two things with strength and power: “God loves you” and “I love you.” You must say it often to your friends. This world isn't starving from a lack of money. It's starving from a want of love. —Mother Angelica — from Love Never Fails

Breakfast: Nourishment

"I am the Vine and you are the branches." - John 15:5. - Like any branch of any tree, we are meant to live off our roots. But for that to happen we must ask ourselves at all times, with what are we really nourishing our daily lives: the spirit of the world or the spirit of Jesus?

Breakfast: The Peace of Christ.

"Peace be with you; I give you My peace. Not as th Breakfast: The Peace of Christ. e world gives peace do I give it to you." - John 14:27. - The peace Jesus gives is the tranquility that comes with trust. Knowing that we live in the womb of God, that God walks with us through life, makes life both blessing and beautiful - whatever life holds for us.

Nightcap: Perfect Love.

"Lord Jesus, in love You created me and you drew me to Yourself. May I never lose sight of You nor forget Your steadfast love and faithfulness. And may I daily dwell upon Your Word and give You praise in the sanctuary of my heart, You who are my All."

Breakfast: You are Precious!

When not accepted by others, even by yourself sometimes, He is the one who always accepts you. Only believe—you are precious to Him. Bring all your suffering to His feet—only open your heart to be loved by Him as you are. He will do the rest. —Mother Teresa of Calcutta — from Love Never Fails

Nightcap: Show Me Lord.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.- Saint Therese of Lisieux

Nightcap: Come In, Lord

Divine Master, we love your stories. We hear them year after year and do not tire of them. We are often too anxious to be thrilled by religion, to get an emotional kick. We know we should become the good ground in which your love and forgiveness can take root. Here's the key to our hearts: Open the door and come in. — from Holding Jesus

Nightcap: Believe in Miracles

Let others call my faith a lie, or try to stir up doubt in me: Look at me now! None can deny I once was blind and now I see! —Fred Pratt Green — from Holding Jesus

Breakfast: Remember, It's Not About You!

"Truly I say to you, the servant is not greater than his master nor is the messenger greater than the one who sent him." - John 13:16. - When we make ourselves the moral norm, the pious standard of the Christian life, when we make ourselves judges of the universe rather than the messengers of the Gospel, we put ourselves in the place of God.

Nightcap: There Is Only One

"We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone."— St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Breakfast: Stay In The Light.

"I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness." - John 12:46. - When life seems impossible, when the way forward is unclear and the present is dark, it is the light of Jesus within us that shows us the way.

Nightcap: Loving Family

Jesus, in your family life, you grew in wisdom, age and grace before God and people. Help us to follow the same path on our journey toward a loving union with you. With your guidance we can live in a family united in respect and love. — from Holding Jesus

Breakfast: Being Consistent.

"The works I do in My Father's name proclaim who I am, but you do not believe because you are not My sheep." - John 10:26. - The great spiritual temptation is to profess to believe one thing and go on living exactly as if we don't. The spiritual life is only authentic when what we say we believe and the way we live are one and the same.

Nightcap: Leading the Way

Lord, give us the humility to know that you, not we, are responsible for converting people. Use us as conduits who are ever mindful of your sovereignty and help us bring many souls to you. — from 150 North American Martyrs You Should Know

Breakfast: We Are Not Here For Ourselves Alone.

"I have come that they may have life, life in all its fullness." - John 10:10 - We have a responsibility to continue the work of Jesus, to care for others as God cares for us, to keep alive the fire of faith in ourselves.

Nightcap: Burning Love
Lord Jesus Christ, place a burning love for you in our hearts. Let that express itself in a Holy Spirit-inflamed passion that yields service to people's spiritual and bodily needs. — from 150 North American Martyrs You Should Know

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Breakfast : The Good Shepherd - Follow Him Alone.

"The Sheep follow Him for they know His voice." - John 10:4. - To be real followers of Jesus we must come to know Jesus, to become immersed in His word, to study the way He dealt with people, to make Him the model of our own life.

Nightcap: Trust Him, He Has The Word.

"Lord Jesus, you have the words of everlasting life. Help me to cast aside all doubt and fear so that I may freely embrace your word with complete trust and joy. I surrender all to you. Be the Lord of my life and the Ruler of my heart. May there be nothing which hinders me from trusting in your love and following your will."

Breakfast : Where Is Your Faith?

"This language is very hard! Who can accept it?" Jesus was aware that His disciples were murmuring about this and He said to them, "does this offend you? - John 6:60-61. - Faith is the foundation of the spiritual life. It gives us both hope and direction. But faith must not be confused with certainty. When life is confusing, certainty fails us. Only faith gives us reason to go on.