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< December 12, 2024 >

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.5

Daily Devotional:
The Holy Eucharist/Priesthood
Gift of the Holy Spirit:
Counsel—the gift that assists decision making and helps to guard against rashness; as an interior guide, it assists one to counsel others and to extend compassion to them.
Proclamation of Faith:
“I believe in the Communion of Saints.”
The Blessed Mother:
In imitation of the Blessed Mother after the passion, may we refrain from judging others. Mary’s example was an encouragement to the apostles.
Jesus:
In imitation of Jesus, may we treat all those we encounter with kindness.
Glorious Characteristic:
Quality—our bodies will be youthful and will retain our original gender. (Practice seeing all as a child of God.) (Rev 1:12-18)
Spiritual Work of Mercy:
Counsel the doubtful.
Corporal Work of Mercy:
Bury the dead.
Sacrament:
Holy Orders
Commandments:
  1. You shall not steal.
Thought for the Day:
Padre Pio: “Pray, hope and don’t worry.”

Today’s Reading

Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Here are some fascinating facts about Our Lady of Guadalupe from
https://guadalupeshrine.org/our-lady-of-guadalupe-shrine/

  • "The image left on Saint Juan Diego’s tilma is the only true picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe in existence.
The image has remained intact with all its original vibrancy for 475 years. The natural life span of a cloak made with fiber from the agave or maguey plant is only about 30 years.
  • The image is a pictograph which could be read and understood by the Aztec Indians.
  • Our Lady appears as a beautiful young Indian maiden and Queen.
  • Her eyes are looking down with humility and compassion. She is human, not God.
  • She is wearing a blue-green mantle (the color worn by royalty) covered with stars.
  • The stars signify she comes from heaven – the Queen of Heaven. The constellations are in the exact position as appeared before dawn on the morning of December 12, 1531.
  • Her robe is colored rose or pale red and covered with Aztec flowers, symbolic of an Aztec princess.
  • In the center of her robe, overlying her womb, is a four petal quincunx flower in the shape of a cross which is the sign of the Divine and the center of the cosmic order to the Aztec. The Virgin’s Baby, Jesus, is Divine and the new center of the universe."

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe https://guadalupeshrine.org/our-lady-of-guadalupe-shrine/

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Mission

We could find no better way to describe the purpose of Daily Beatitude than the Prologue of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1:

God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.

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We are called to live in beatitude. This contemplation is one designed to help us incorporate the beatitudes into our day. This work is not one of absolutes. It is just one way to incorporate the countenance of Jesus into each day. It is not the only way. View our rationale.

Each day a different beatitude is presented with several points of focus that provide meditation. An additional reading is included daily related to the beatitude or one of the points of focus. All readings are archived for your convenience.

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