Prayers & Reflections for December 22

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

Chapter IV
Reflections on Prayer

Make the sacrifice of not saying the nasty word or answering an insulting remark in kind.

For in that way we pull ourselves down to the vulgarity we condemn in others.

No one will ever get ahead of us so long as he stays behind to kick us.

Catholics call the trials and disappointments of life "crosses." That means we consider them redemptive.

"If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me" (Luke 9:23).

Wherein do I take the cross daily?

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons