"Return to your first Love" - #Repent #Catholic #USA

Almighty Father, you have brought us to the light of a new day: keep us safe the whole day through from every sinful inclination. May all our thoughts, words and actions aim at doing what is pleasing in your sight. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. — Amen.

READING Jeremiah 15:16 When I found your words, I devoured them; they became my joy and the happiness of my heart, Because I bore your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

God, + come to my assistance. — Lord, make haste to help me. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: — as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. ibreviary.com/m2/breviario.p…

Almighty and ever-living God, strengthen our faith, hope, and love. May we do with loving hearts what you ask of us and come to share the life you promise. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. — Amen.

READING 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 We are bound to thank God for you always, beloved brothers in the Lord, because you are the first fruits of those whom God has chosen for salvation, in holiness of spirit and fidelity to truth. He called you through our preaching of the good news so that you might achieve the glory of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

God, + come to my assistance. — Lord, make haste to help me. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: — as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. ibreviary.com/m2/breviario.p…

Abused women don’t always stop being feminine because they no longer care about themselves. Sometimes, they stop dressing up because they’ve spent so long being criticized, controlled, belittled, or made to feel that their appearance doesn’t matter. Little by little, she stops buying pretty clothes. She stops doing her hair. She stops wearing makeup. She stops looking in the mirror and seeing the woman she used to be. Not because she disappeared, but because she was surviving. Abuse can make a woman shrink herself just to make it through the day. And then one day, she begins to heal. Be patient with us. It comes back very slowly. Sometimes it takes years to get over being invisible. One day... She puts on the dress. She fixes her hair. She wears the perfume. She looks in the mirror again. And she realizes: She was never gone. She was just buried beneath years of survival. There is something incredibly powerful about a woman rediscovering her femininity—not for a man, not for attention, but because she finally feels free enough to be herself again. ❤️ #Healing #Abuse

#Catholic Thoughts needed. When is it abuse?

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Almighty ever-living God, increase our faith, hope and charity, and make us love what you command, so that we may merit what you promise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. — Amen.

READING Ezekiel 36:25-27 I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts. I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes, careful to observe my decrees.

God, + come to my assistance. — Lord, make haste to help me. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: — as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. ibreviary.com/m2/breviario.p…