November 2016 – Totus Tuus, Salve Maria!

Journal writing Have you guys been writing journals or blogs? If not have you considered one.
Why Spiritual Journal?
1. Write every beautiful experiences that you have had during any retreats. This will help us get back and remind our goals.

2. Write down every beautiful thing that our Lord Jesus has done for you and around you.

3. When in difficulty or in temptations, scroll through the pages of your journals. You might find tears in your eyes.

4. Every time you experience HIS love or have love letters to Jesus, write them down.

5. Let this be personal, just between you and God who created you.

6. It may make you think of Jesus and might drive you in HIS presence.

7. Every time you visit blessed sacrament, your experience may be different. Good to jot them and reflect.

8. It may help you in your discernment.
Many many more. In simple start your love letters to Jesus lah.
Further reading

http://www.spirithome.com/spiritual-journal.html
http://devotional.upperroom.org/lent2013/journal
https://www.google.com.sg/amp/m.wikihow.com/Keep-a-Spiritual-Journal%3Famp%3D1

Psalms 37
37:1  [Of David] Do not get heated about the wicked or envy those who do wrong.
37:2  Quick as the grass they wither, fading like the green of the fields.
37:3  Put your trust in Yahweh and do right, make your home in the land and live secure.
37:4  Make Yahweh your joy and he will give you your heart’s desires.

1Chr 28:20 David then said to his son Solomon, ‘Be resolute and courageous in your work, do not be afraid or disheartened, because Yahweh God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you before you have finished all the work to be done for the house of Yahweh.

Psalm 62:1 In God alone there is rest for my soul, from him comes my safety;
62:2 he alone is my rock, my safety, my stronghold so that I stand unshaken.

2 Tim 4:5 But you must keep steady all the time; put up with suffering; do the work of preaching the gospel; fulfil the service asked of you.

James 1:12 Blessed is anyone who perseveres when trials come. Such a person is of proven worth and will win the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who love him

1 John 2:3  In this way we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
2:4  Whoever says, ‘I know him’ without keeping his commandments, is a liar, and truth has no place in him.
2:5  But anyone who does keep his word, in such a one God’s love truly reaches its perfection. This is the proof that we are in God.
2:6  Whoever claims to remain in him must act as he acted.

Ezekiel 36:26  I shall give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you; I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of flesh instead.
36:27  I shall put my spirit in you, and make you keep my laws, and respect and practise my judgements.
36:28  You will live in the country which I gave your ancestors. You will be my people and I shall be your God.

1 Pet 5:8  Keep sober and alert, because your enemy the devil is on the prowl like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
5:9  Stand up to him, strong in faith and in the knowledge that it is the same kind of suffering that the community of your brothers throughout the world is undergoing.
5:10  You will have to suffer only for a little while: the God of all grace who called you to eternal glory in Christ will restore you, he will confirm, strengthen and support you.