Vsers - Virtues To Practice And Contintents To Pray For During 2014

[Pia Jesu]

Deo Gratias...AnneLine!  You've got a true missionary spirit (at home and abroad!)

[AnneLine]

Huh?   Can you explain more your thinking?   I think it is a neat custom, but I don't exactly get the Missionary element?

[Pia Jesu]

I was thinking about St. Therese of Lisieux...who had the heart of a missionary (praying for souls) while practicing great virtue in Carmel (doing small, ordinary things in an extraordinary way--with great love!).  Sometimes we get "comfy" with the confines of our

own lives...and remembering a continent in our prayers (while working at developing virtue!) are wonderful ways to enlarge our souls.

The custom is lovely!

 

[Crucesignata]

Would you pull one for me?   :)

 

One of each, that is.

Edited November 11, 2013 by Crucesignata

[AnneLine]

I was thinking about St. Therese of Lisieux...who had the heart of a missionary (praying for souls) while practicing great virtue in Carmel (doing small, ordinary things in an extraordinary way--with great love!).  Sometimes we get "comfy" with the confines of our

own lives...and remembering a continent in our prayers (while working at developing virtue!) are wonderful ways to enlarge our souls.

The custom is lovely!

 

Ahhh... thank you, yes that makes sense!  And a nice commentary on the value of expanding our 'world view' in a prayerful way. 

 

I remember being on a Young Adult retreat many years ago, and one of the suggestions was that each week we spend at least one prayer period doing 'lectio divina' over the local newspaper.  At first I was horrified... and then I realized that it was intended exactly the same way... to be an impetus to PRAY for all the things in that newspaper... not reading for knowledge, reading for prayerfulness....

 

And I try to look at news websites each day just before Evening Prayer for exactly that purpose to this day....

 

Would you pull one for me?   :)

 

One of each, that is.

 

I presume that, like shoes, these come in pairs (a virtue AND a continent) unless someone requests ONLY a right or left shoe/virtue or continent... ;)

 

Crucesignata:

 

VIRTUE: Modesty AND Courage (Twins!)

 

CONTINENT: Europe

[ToJesusMyHeart]

Can you pull a virtue for another friend of mine? Her name is Ann Claire. She's a sophomore in college and discerning her Vocation. 

 

Thank you AL.  :)

[AnneLine]

Sure... here you go:

 

For Ann Clare:

 

VIRTUE: Integrity AND Honesty AND Patience (Triplets!)

 

Let me know if she also wants a Continent to pray for....