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Many voices are competing for your attention. The world offers empty philosophies, human traditions, and deceptive ideas that promise happiness but leave you more confused than before.

Begins Saturday, August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.

Nine days: August 15th to 23rd.

Three novenas. Choose the one that suits you.

FOR A LIFE PARTNER (for the unmarried)

Under

PERSONALLY, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST POWERFUL PRAYER OR DEVOTION, AFTER THE HOLY MASS ITSELF AND WHY?

A) The Rosary

B) The Divine Mercy Chaplet

C) Silent adoration before the Blessed

We often want to see the end before we are willing to walk through the beginning. We want answers quickly, results immediately, and clarity before we take the next step.

There is value in patience.

You can have wealth, wisdom, pleasure, success, and the capacity to accomplish extraordinary works. Yet, after evaluating it all, apart from God, it is just vanity.

• Father I thank you for the gift of this new month of August. I thank You and appreciate all that you have done for me. May you be exalted and praised forever.

• Father I decree and declare that as

Last week I needed to pay my credit card because I had already over used it. I sought a loan from a friend but he did not respond. That night, I knelt and pray to God for financial assistance.

From a Spiritual Canticle by Saint John of the Cross, priest

I give myself as your spouse for ever

The soul united to God and transformed in him draws from within God a divine breath, much like the most high God himself.

Many of us, or people we love or know, are fighting battles nobody sees: pornography, masturbation, alcoholism, gambling, gluttony, unhealthy attachment to the wrong people, etc.

✨ *PART IV — The Rise of Sons: When Prayer & Word Become Lifestyle*

Where the Gate Beautiful Becomes the Gate Fruitful

Acts 6 does not merely diagnose immaturity — it reveals the **pathway