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The Eighteenth Day of the Four Men Boot Camp

12/22/2011

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Do You Value Grace? 
(Excerpt from Devotion to the Dying
by Ven. Mary Potter)

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How sad it is, Dear Reader, whoever you may be now reading what I write. Think: do you value grace? Do you believe that gold and silver and precious stones are but dirt in comparison with what may be termed a little grace, though indeed all grace is great? You do know it well enough; you fully believe it. Then, bring that faith into practice. Look at your past life. You have perhaps had to move from one place to another. Was your first thought to look to the spiritual advantages you might gain by your change of residence, daily Mass and the rest? You may have many a time taken a holiday in the country; did you previously ascertain whether there was a church in the place, or perhaps have you not known there was not one and yet determined to spend your holiday in one place you fancied more than another, though there was no Blessed Sacrament there, no daily Sacrifice of the Mass, no opportunity of receiving the Sacraments?      Think of it, Dear Reader. Look through your life, your daily life, as well as long years back, and see if you are the least bit as anxious to obtain spiritual riches as to obtain worldly goods. Do you not allow any little matter to interfere, for instance, with a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, God put aside for your own comfort! How sad it is! I have said it in another work, [The Path of Mary] but I must say it again: Souls are being lost daily, hourly, momentarily; with every breath we draw, a soul has drawn the last breath in this world of mercy and has entered another region, a region where the Divine Justice is exercised with a severity we shrink back from contemplating; and if we could ask each miserable soul that has already commenced its eternity of woe why it was lost, what, if it answered truly, must be its answer? It had neglected grace. I beg, I entreat all who read this, think of what I say. Do you value the salvation of your soul? Then value grace. Do you care for the souls of others-----your children, relations, those around you whom you love, or those unknown to you, but whom you love because Jesus loves them and died to save them? Do you care to assist with Him in saving them? Then you must value grace. Do you care, with Jesus, to glorify your Father Who is in Heaven? You must value grace.

   These are three motives. You may look at them separately and influence yourself by whichever has most weight with you. You may say to yourself, "For my own good, I will get all the grace I can;" or "for my neighbor's good I will strive not to lose graces that so many poor souls are in such great need of." Or you may say, "For God's good, to glorify Him, that His wonderful mercy may be shown upon this sinful world, I will treasure, I will esteem His graces, as it is His wish I should." Take these three motives separately, if you will, though they are but one in reality, and see if they will not induce you to make a strong resolution for the remainder of your life, to look at grace in a different light, to realize that it is an entity, a real thing, far more real, far more valuable than the greatest treasure this world could give us.

Excerpt for Devotion for the Dying
by Venerable Mary Potter
Tan Books pgs 83-85
First Published 1880


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8 Comments
Julian
2/13/2012 09:24:47 am

Brothers:
Grace is all the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.So we should all pray for more
Grace during Lent.

1 Corinthians 12
Concerning Spiritual Gifts
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.

7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

God Bless

Unity and Diversity in the Body

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Scott Audet
3/13/2012 07:45:10 pm

This, I believe is an extremely important point. Especially when discussing Christian unity with our separated brothers & sisters. Their erroneous understanding of the means of Grace is very crucial. Without the authority of the Church and the preisthood, they are practicing partial Christianity at best. We are in such great need of strong Catholic men & women that are eager to lovingly share the fullness of truth. With the world. Stay strong my brothers!!!

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Oscar Olague
5/23/2012 10:23:50 pm

Grace is everywhere were Saint Therese's last words as she was about to rejoin the rejoin the Father. Let's make Grace evident to all our brothers and sisters through our actions, prayers and love.

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Timoteo Saldana Honesto
3/12/2013 01:58:55 pm

Do we go to Mass and say "Gloria In Excelsis Deo?" and then after Mass go forth and say "Hail Caesar?" My brothers on the Red Road are constantly spiritual, are you? GOD Bless!

Timoteo, OFS

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Pierre Roderique
5/20/2013 12:19:12 am

But for the Grace of God there go I, Amen brothers.

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Bob
9/6/2013 06:11:01 am

It is clear that grace is required in order to help God save souls, which is exactly the mission of the 4 Men groups. Grace also seems to be a spiritual gift. Brother Julian in the first comment above says that "Grace is all the gifts of the Holy Spirit." In my role as friend of a paralytic, I find I must define exactly what these gifts are.

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David E Mello
9/18/2013 01:04:30 am

Completion of the 18th day

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Ron Auer
6/17/2018 04:54:07 am

Thank you so much for this. Reading these daily give me more reminders of both the subtly and obvious of God's work in our life. Obvious because we couldn't or wouldn't exist with him willing us to. Subtle because it is not always obvious to see how and what work is being done in us and through us. This boot camp, like the daily readings of the church, are a blessing to feed our souls and help to keep us righly oriented with the Love of God and all of his creatures in our hearts. Thank you again for your ministry.

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