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DAYBREAKS – Daily Reflections for LENT and EASTER by KENNETH DAVIS, OFM CONV

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2011	Day	INTRODUCTION	REFLECTIONS
9 Mar	Day 1	Ash Wednesday	“The Cross is the trademark of Christ, and ash is our brand loyalty.”
10 Mar	Day 2	Thursday after Ash Wednesday	“I cannot touch Christ without being touched myself.”
11 Mar	Day 3	Friday after Ash Wednesday	“Whatever we do to those we love least, we do to him who loves most.”
12 Mar	Day 4	Saturday after Ash Wednesday	“What is secure can obscure those shining gifts the world cannot give.”
13 Mar	+	First Sunday of Lent	“Christ chose the solidarity of love, a love not diminished by suffering.”
14 Mar	Day 5	Monday, 1^st Week of Lent	“You will always be precious in God’s eyes.”
15 Mar	Day 6	Tuesday, 1^st Week of Lent	“Let God recognize in you what God knows and loves in Christ.”
16 Mar	Day 7	Wednesday, 1^st Week of Lent	“Marriage is a foretaste of our eternal union desired by God.”
17 Mar	Day 8	Thursday, 1^st Week of Lent	“From our place of fear, we can utter God’s word.”
18 Mar	Day 9	Friday, 1^st Week of Lent	“Our ultimate enemy is the evil of original sin that shattered paradise.”
19 Mar	Day 10	Saturday, 1^st Week of Lent	“Whenever we judge someone, we place ourselves under the very same judgment.”
20 Mar	+	Second Sunday of Lent	“Candles are consumed, but Christians are transfigured, when the wax of our humanity is penetrated by the wick of divinity.”
21 Mar	Day 11	Monday, 2^nd Week of Lent	“To savor the Savior, we must imitate his behavior.”
22 Mar	Day 12	Tuesday, 2^nd Week of Lent	“To feast on what is new, one must fast from what is familiar.”
23 Mar	Day 13	Wednesday, 2^nd Week of Lent	“Preach the gospel always; when necessary, use words.”
24 Mar	Day 14	Thursday, 2^nd Week of Lent	“We fast from fearfulness to feast on openness.”
25 Mar	Day 15	Friday, 2^nd Week of Lent	“Helplessness doesn’t mean hopelessness if you believe in God.”
26 Mar	Day 16	Saturday, 2^nd Week of Lent	“What the world rejects, Jesus collects.”
27 Mar	+	Third Sunday of Lent	“Insulation and isolation are exactly the opposite of the Lenten lesson!”
28 Mar	Day 17	Monday, 3^rd Week of Lent	“We may never account any opponent an enemy, but rather suppose him a sibling.”
29 Mar	Day 18	Tuesday, 3^rd Week of Lent	“Virtuous actions bring healing to our feeling.”
30 Mar	Day 19	Wednesday, 3^rd Week of Lent	“While prophecy distinguishes, hypocrisy extinguishes.”
31 Mar	Day 20	Thursday, 3^rd Week of Lent	“A career, a business, a job are all important obligations – just not the most important.”
1 Apr	Day 21	Friday, 3^rd Week of Lent	“The Lord loves a joyful forgiver.”
2 Apr	Day 22	Saturday, 3^rd Week of Lent	“Gluttony is a deadly sin for both those who overeat as well as those who hunger.”
3 Apr	+	Fourth Sunday of Lent	“Lenten penance is practicing the Christian principle that love increases as our grasping for it decreases.”
4 Apr	Day 23	Monday, 4^th Week of Lent	“We see what we seek.”
5 Apr	Day 24	Tuesday, 4^th Week of Lent	“Conversion is cooperating with Christ so that we break through what we are in order to see where Christ really is.”
6 Apr	Day 25	Wednesday, 4^th Week of Lent	“See past your own fear.”
7 Apr	Day 26	Thursday, 4^th Week of Lent	“Our minds, like our eyes, only operate when open.”
8 Apr	Day 27	Friday, 4^th Week of Lent	“Let those who have no blame be the first to shame.”
9 Apr	Day 28	Saturday, 4^th Week of Lent	“For Christians a watch is unessential, although watchfulness is quintessential.”
10 Apr	+	Fifth Sunday of Lent	“The goal of our conversion is not to change the world, but to change ourselves!”
11 Apr	Day 29	Monday, 5^th Week of Lent	“Sometimes discipleship means preferring patience and prudence to racing about just reacting”
12 Apr	Day 30	Tuesday, 5^th Week of Lent	“The call is to be ready, to watch, to wait, to anticipate”
13 Apr	Day 31	Wednesday, 5^th Week of Lent	“For God, we are never strangers and aliens to each other, but simply brothers and sisters who haven’t yet had a chance to meet”
14 Apr	Day 32	Thursday, 5^th Week of Lent	“For a Christian to hate is as hypocritical as for a meteorologist to mislead.”
15 Apr	Day 33	Friday, 5^th Week of Lent	“When thankfulness is crossed With mutual forgiveness, they yield mercy”
16 Apr	Day 34	Saturday, 5^th Week of Lent	“Jesus’ heart is a gate that opens whenever we reciprocate”
17 Apr	+	Passion Sunday	“We need to forget ourselves long enough to remember God.”
18 Apr	Day 35	Monday of Holy Week	“Jesus never promised us we would not suffer; he promised that we would not be overcome.”
19 Apr	Day 36	Tuesday of Holy Week	“The true cross rends, but it also mends.”
20 Apr	Day 37	Wednesday of Holy Week	“We cannot shape the true cross; it shapes us.”
21 Apr	(Day 38)	HOLY THURSDAY	“We die to self-love, only to be reborn into a self of love.”
22 Apr	(Day 39)	GOOD FRIDAY Divine Mercy Novena starts	“Often we are paralyzed by our messiness and oblivious to the blessedness.”
23 Apr	(Day 40)	HOLY SATURDAY Divine Mercy Novena Day 2	“We believe that no crisis before us is ever greater than Christ now within us.”
24 Apr	+	DM Novena Day 3 Easter Sunday	“On this day, after forty days of quiet, we again sing with the angels and saints.”
25 Apr	Mon	Monday within the octave of Easter Divine Mercy Novena Day 4	“Jesus first heals and only then reveals.”
26 Apr	Tue	Tuesday within the octave of Easter Divine Mercy Novena Day 5	“Joy is the sound of faith unfettered.”
27 Apr	Wed	Wednesday within the oct. Easter Divine Mercy Novena Day 6	“All immigrants want is a hometown Christian to receive them.”
28 Apr	Thu	Thursday within the oct. of Easter Divine Mercy Novena Day 7	“Our hearts are healthy to the extent that they are like Christ’s heart.”
29 Apr	Fri	Friday within the octave of Easter Divine Mercy Novena Day 8	“God is not our yo-yo; God is a rock.”
30 Apr	Sat	Saturday within the octave of Easter Divine Mercy Novena Day 9	“Devout doubt can lead to the most sublime celebration of faith.”
1 May	+	Divine Mercy Sun. Second Sunday of Easter	“When we stop – in silent wonder – before the saving Word, Christ strips away our ridiculous fig leaves. We laugh in relief, because we now know no shame.”

LENT is Old English for SPRING by James Akin

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