Visit and donate to: Cross Catholic Outreach

Read: Sermon 19 by Saint Pope Leo the Great

Sign up: 40 Days for Life

Buy and hand out Miraculous Medals:

• Bulk pack of 5 Miraculous Medals
• Bulk pack of 10 Miraculous Medals
• Bulk pack of 50 Miraculous Medals
• 12 necklace chains
• 50 necklace chains

Make a paper cross

• The Breviary Made Simple
• Introduction to the Roman Breviary
• Today’s Breviary

Buckner International – Shoes for Orphan Souls

Toys For Tots

Examination of Conscience

ReSpectacle

Read: Dark Night of the Soul

Donate: The Trinitarians

Donate: One Warm Coat

Read: 1 John

Read: Psalm 51

Pray the Angelus

Buy a chapel veil: Veils by Lily

Read Homily 9

Pray the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus

As an extra resource to help with today’s challenge, read St. Louis de Montfort’s essay on mortification.

The Living Rosary

Prayer to renew your Baptism promises

Some beautiful Bibles:

• NABRE Translation
• NRSVCE Translation
• ESVCE Translation
• RSV2CE Translation
• NRSVCE Translation, Illustrated
• Douay-Rheims Translation
• Douay-Rheims Translation, English & Latin
• Douay-Rheims Translation with Haydock Commentary

Life is short and death comes quickly. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti1

Death strikes even at play. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti2

One mortal sin merits damnation. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti3

Not the goods of the world, but God. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti4

Not riches, but God. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti5

Not honors, but God. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti6

Not distinction, but God. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti7

Not dignities, but God. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti8

Not advancement, but God. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti9

God always and in everything. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti10

You must be holy in the way that God asks you to be holy. https://tinyurl.com/pallotti11

God wills that you sanctify the world and your everyday life.https://tinyurl.com/pallotti12

National Catholic Office for the Deaf

Read 2 Timothy

• Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas
• 12 Life Lessons from St. Thomas Aquinas: Timeless Spiritual Wisdom for Our Turbulent Times
• The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy from the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas
• A Summa of the Summa
• Thomas Aquinas in 50 Pages: A Layman’s Quick Guide to Thomism
• St. Thomas Aquinas, a biography by G.K. Chesterton

Visit FOCUS and see how you can help.

Buy and have blessed some beeswax candles. (Why beeswax? Read this.)

Read reviews:

• https://www.archbalt.org/movie-review-silence
• https://www.ncregister.com/features/sdg-reviews-silence

Then read Silence the book or watch Silence the movie

Visit: Divine Mercy

Visit: Stations of the Cross

Find out more about the First Saturdays devotion

Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part I, Section 2, chapters 1 through 3

Donate:

• Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, North America
• St. John of God Retirement and Care Center
• Hospitaller Order of St. John of God: Find a Province

Society of St. Vincent de Paul

Lorica of St. Patrick

• As sung by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
• Read the prayer

Read Lecture 22

Pray The Litany of St. Joseph

• Read the Declaration on Euthanasia
• Donate to Human Life International

Annunciation Prayer

by St. Alphonses de Liguori

Oh immaculate and holy Virgin! Oh creature the most humble and the greatest before God! You were so small in your own eyes, but so great in the eyes of your Lord, that he exalted you even to choose you for his mother, and therefore to make you queen of heaven and of earth. I then thank that God who has so much exalted you, and rejoice with you in seeing you so closely united to God, that more is not permitted to a pure creature. I am ashamed to appear before you who are so humble, with so many graces; I, a miserable sinner, and so proud with so many sins. But wretched as I am, I, too, wish to salute you: Hail Mary, full of grace: Ave Maria, gratia plena. You are already full of grace; obtain a share of it also for me. The Lord is with thee: Dominus tecum. The Lord who has ever been with you even from the first moment of your creation, is now more intimately with you, by making himself your Son. Blessed art thou among women: Benedicta tu in mulieribus. Oh woman, blessed among all women, obtain for us also the divine benediction. Oh blessed plant which has given to the world a fruit so noble and so holy: Et benedictus fructus ventris tui. Holy Mary, mother of God: Sancta Maria, mater Dei. Oh Mary, I confess that you are the true Mother of God, and for this truth I would give my life a thousand times. Pray for us sinners: Ora pro nobis peccatoribus. But if you are the Mother of God, you are also the mother of our salvation, and of us poor sinners; since it is to save sinners that God made himself man; and he has made you his mother that your prayers may have the power to save every sinner. Pray for us, oh Mary. Now and in the hour of our death: Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Pray always; pray now, while we are in life, in the midst of so many temptations and so great danger of losing God; but still more, pray in the hour of our death, when we are on the point of leaving this world and being presented at the divine tribunal; that being saved by the merits of Jesus Christ, and by your intercession, we may one day come, without the danger of losing you any more, to salute you and praise you, with thy Son, in heaven, for all eternity. Amen.

Read 1 Kings chapters 17-19

Pray the Litany of Humility

Buy the Baltimore Catechism 2

Visit Exodus Cry

Donate to Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

Help the Jerome Lejune Foundation

Visit a Marian shrine. Find one near you:

• Wikipedia: Shrines to the Virgin Mary
• University of Dayton: Marian Shrines in the United States

Read Matthew 6:14-15

Buy True Devotion to Mary and perform the consecration

Volunteer to help: Special Olympics

Find out more about the Brown Scapular

Some out of print Catholic prayer & devotional books:

• Catholic Devotions: a Selection of Prayers and Devotional Exercises (1800)
• A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity (1888)
• The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety (1844)
• Prayers and Offices of Devotion, for Families, and for Particular Persons, Upon Most Occasions (1822)
• The Carmelite Manual: Containing a Selection of Beautiful Prayers, and Various Practices of Piety (1846)
• The Golden Manual: Being a Guide to Catholic Devotion, Public and Private (1850)

Read Humanae Vitae

Compare the following two passages. Highlight or underline the words and phrases that are the same or similar.

• 2 Samuel 6:2-16
• Luke 1:28-56 

Read St. Justin Martyr’s First Apology

Sacred Heart Enthronement Network

Visit the National Eucharistic Revival

Make a knotted cord Rosary

Read: Isaiah 22:19-25

Read: Matthew 16:11-19

Watch: The Jewish Roots of the Papacy – Dr. Brant Pitre – Deep in History

Support the Serra International Foundation

Watch:

• Eucharistic Miracles That Prove It’s Jesus Real Presence (duration: 15:50)
• 3 Scientifically Proven Eucharistic Miracles (duration 6:17)
• Eucharistic Miracles! – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World (duration 1:13:43)

Support the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary

Buy and read Humility Rules by Fr. Augustine Wetta OSB

Support the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm

Read Preparation for Death: Considerations on Eternal Truths by St. Alphonsus de Liguori

An abridged version of these essays, along with other resources can be found in Passing Time.

Men: Join the Knights of Columbus

Pray the Prayer of Humility by St. Therese of Lisieux

• Disability Commission, Diocese of Syracuse: Fifty-Seven Ways to Make your Parish More Accessible for
  Little or No Cost
• US Catholic: Ramp it up: How parishes can increase accessibility

• Read: Mark 8:34-38

Get involved: Talitha Kum

Bibles

• NABRE Translation
• NRSVCE Translation
• ESVCE Translation
• RSV2CE Translation
• NRSVCE Translation, Illustrated
• Douay-Rheims Translation

The Catechism of the Catholic Church

• Catechism of the Catholic Church: Second Edition
• Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

Missals

• New St. Joseph Sunday Missal
• St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Sunday Missal
• Daily Roman Missal (with Sunday and weekday Masses)

Liturgy of the Hours

• The Liturgy of the Hours (paperback, single volume)
• The Liturgy of the Hours (hardcover, 4-volume set)

Read: St. John Chrysostom’s Instructions for Catechumens

Read St. Catherine of Genoa’s Treatise on Purgatory

Passing Time contains the unabridged Treatise on Purgatory in addition to other resources.

Support the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament

Read Story of a Soul

Recite the Divine Mercy Chaplet

Visit http://www.orderofmaltaamerican.org

Get involved with helping The Newman Society

Contact the Comboni Missionaries and ask for the contact information of a random missionary, then send them a care package and letter of encouragement

• Call: (513) 474-4997
• Email: info@combonimissionaries.org

Visit the website of Bl. Carlo Acutis

Read more about The 12 Promises of the Sacred Heart

Read St. Ignatius of Antioch’s Letter to the Smyrnaeans

Find out the basics about the Theology of the Body:

• Catholic Education Resource Center: Five Key Features of the Theology of the Body
• Human Life International: What Is the Theology of the Body?
• Theology of the Body for Beginners: Rediscovering the Meaning of Life, Love, Sex, and Gender
• Theology of the Body in One Hour