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VIRTUE OF THE WEEK: FORGIVING

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VIRTUE

The Virtue of the week: FORGIVENESS.  The strength to write off a debt of any kind and start fresh with a clean slate.  To truly forgive someone from our heart is one of the hardest things we can ever do.  It takes a tremendous amount of virtue.  Let's start by FORGIVING anyone and everyone on our team who may have offended us in some way. 

PRAYER

Lord, first and foremost, thank You for FORGIVING us, for giving us Your life on the Cross.  Thank You for the gift of the sacrament of Reconciliation where we can go and freely receive the complete forgiveness of everything we have ever done.  Thank You for the peace that comes from Confession.

SAINT OF THE WEEK

This week's saint is St. Stephen. He was one of the first ordained deacons of the Church.  He was also the first Christian martyr.  The Greek word from which we derive the English word martyr literally means witness.  As Stephen was being brutally stoned, he spoke his last words, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.  Lord, do not hold this sin against them."  Words which echoed the very words of Jesus on the Cross.  Following those words, Stephen died, in the Lord.

FORGIVING QUOTES FOR THE WEEK

Monday:
"Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it."
- Frank Clark
Tuesday:
"Power is the ability to do good for others."
- Brooke Astor
Wednesday:
"You can easily see the characters of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them."
- Malcom Forbes
Thursday:
"You must give some time to your fellow men.  Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you will get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
- Albert Schweitzer
Friday:
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.."
- The Golden Rule
Saturday:
"Men are only as great as they are kind."
- Elbert Hubbard
Sunday:
"Love does not measure, it just gives."
-Mother Teresa

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