Spring Cleaning for the Soul

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I went shopping yesterday and saw a sign that said "Spring Clearance."  I thought of my soul.  I could go for a good spring cleaning.  Here are some things I would like to get rid of.

• The negative talking I do about people when they are not present
• The feet I drag sometimes before I get around to doing the Rosary
• All those times I don't get around to doing the Rosary
• The silences I carry instead of telling others I love them
• Petty jealousies
• Self-pity - This is so unproductive, isn't it?
• Ingratitude
• Texting or cell phoning while driving - Do I think I am immune to injury and death?
• My avoidance of reading the Bible, again
• Missing too many Daily Masses
• Watching useless TV
• Fretting
• Talking when it would be best for me to listen to others
• White lies - Oh, those white lies
• Not doing more concrete things to act on my ProLife beliefs
• Not speaking up about priests who grossly ad lib the words of the Liturgy, e.g. "Happy are all of us who are gathered here to take part in this meal." - What?!  The laity doesn't even know how to respond to that and the priest has been saying it for more than two years.

And here are some other things I wish could get purged.

• People who call themselves ProChoice yet do not tolerate my choice of ProLife
• Media bashing of the Catholic Church
• People who call themselves Catholic yet do not believe in the Real Presence
• People who call themselves Catholic yet consciously fornicate and/or contracept
• People, especially those who have children in religious education classes, who call themselves Catholic yet do not go to Mass or Confession
• Clergy and everyone else guilty of sex abuse

May God take all these items to His purgative fires of love and extinguish them.


Jesus, I love You.  Help me to follow You more closely.

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