Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Our Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is named after St. Padre Pio. Looking into this photo of him and trying to ponder what he is contemplating might be a useless exercise, but I like to imagine that he is so consumed with love for the Sacred Heart that the Lamb of God himself is peering through the eyes of St. Pio.
A suffering servant in union with The suffering servant par excellence.
***When a million children pray the rosary the world will change.*** St. Pio
Expect miracles.
*** It is necessary to guard all your senses particularly your eyes: they are the means by which all the fascination and charm of beauty and voluptuousness enter the heart. When fashion, as in our time, is towards provocation and exposes what formerly was even wrong to think about, caution and self-restraint must be exercised. Whenever necessary you must look without seeing and see without thinking about it.***
St. Pio.
Modesty.
Almost a forgotten practice in our culture.
Thank God for small faith communities.
Homeschooling?
God bless you for it.
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By the way, one can order a neat little circular window sticker for your car of Padre Pio’s famous counsel (“Pray, hope, and don’t worry…also has a smiling picture of him) from the Padre Pio Center with a small donation. I have one on my truck on the crew cab passenger window. It always makes me smile, and (I hope) other people to think a bit.