The attack on marriage is really an attack on the human person, and his dignity, for the devil seeks to pervert our true purpose, to pervert God's holy design. For many of us, we cannot march in protests or write dozens of letters or call numerous times to urge legislators to vote for the Truth. But one thing we can all do is pray and fast. We have designated one day each week to fast for these intentions:

1. That marriage may be preserved, promoted, and understood as God's plan for creation.

2. For all marriages that they may reflect the love of the Trinity.

3. For broken marriages that Christ bring healing and conversion to the spouses' souls.

4. For those who are married, for the sanctification of their marriage and their spouse. For those who are single, for their future spouse and vocation.


Thursday, January 5, 2012

January 6th Fast

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JMJ
“I think the world today is upside down. Everybody seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater development and greater riches and so on. There is much suffering because there is so very little love in homes and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other; there is no time to enjoy each other. In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.” (Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta)
It is important to note that a woman who worked amongst people living in the most devastating and humiliating of circumstances, was firm in her belief that the "greatest poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."  The breakdown of families is due to many factors but all of them point to one main one: a lack of abiding and sacrificial love.  "No one has greater love than this, to lay down His life for His friends." (Jn. 15:13)  We would all like to believe we could have the courage to die for a loved one, to die for Christ if called upon, but do we have the, perhaps, greater courage to die each day for our loved ones?  It is a slower death: one that is can be tedious and agonizing.  It is a quiet one that no one will remember or laud; but it is certainly not less valiant!  


Our fast today, and our little sacrifices every day, will feed the fires of our love.  It will bring peace to our hearts, and joy to our homes.  Our society will not fall down if the foundations of it remain built to last.  There are many worthy causes out there but none so great as the preservation of the family.  Our first calling is to preserve our own, to love our own.


We frequently hear St. Paul's words but should never tire of meditating on them: 
"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (Rom. 13:4-7)




During this election season, please remember in your prayers today, a man who has always fought for the preservation of the family, Senator Rick Santorum.  
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