In order to succeed in prayer, it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.'
(St. Peter Julian Eymard)
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'Never forget that it is at the beginning of each day that God has the necessary grace for the day ready for us. He knows exactly what opportunities we shall have to sin, and will give us everything we need if we ask him then. That is why the devil does all he can to prevent us from saying our morning prayers or to make us say them badly.'
(St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney)
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When a soul begins the day in prayer, the devil loses much of his influence for the rest of the day.
(St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney)
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We must take great care never to do anything before having said our morning prayers...The Devil once declared that if he could have the first moment of the day, he was sure of all the rest.
(St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney)
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The devil tries especially hard to stop people from praying, because prayer gives the soul divine protection.
(Saint Padre Pio)
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Prayer, especially at the beginning of the day, protects the soul from sin and temptation, and to demonic influence.
(Saint Alphonsus Liguori)
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Marian prayer (especially early in the day) builds a spiritual shield against evil spirits.
(Saint Louis de Montfort)
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The demons rejoice when they see a soul delay prayer, but they are confounded when the soul quickly turns to God.
Early prayer deprives demons of their chance to influence the day.
The seemingly botched Reflecting Pool renovation and subsequent vandalism charges have created a deep divide between Pirro and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Pirro has blasted Burgum’s staff, and put the blame squarely on Interior for failing to arm her with the evidence — before she presented the case — that exposed the case wasn’t prosecutable.
https://t.co/tfSiWJK3nq
🚨WOW: Trump wants to FIRE Jeanine Pirro for “folding like an umbrella” after she dropped the SHAM Reflecting Pool case - and refused to fake a felony charge against the 67-year-old cyclist.
Honestly, TRUMP should go to jail for wasting $14M of taxpayer money on BOTCHED work.
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
🚨Lawrence O'Donnell nailed it:
"Donald Trump has corrupted every single Republican senator to some degree, and Donald Trump has corrupted most Republican senators completely, just completely bent them to his will on everything.
This is exactly why we can’t lose focus on the Senate.
CNN side by side video of Trump saying today he didn’t know the reflecting pool contractor and…
Trump in April saying: I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools. I'm going to send my contractor over.
Trump on Blue Cities: But what else do they have in common? They’re all dirty. They’re filthy dirty. The streets are dirty. The streets smell. The storefronts are broken. The trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. And I don’t want to mention any specific city. It’s really all of them. You go into these cities that are blue… they’re filthy and disgusting.
What we know about President Trump's meeting today with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Jeanine Pirro after Trump said she "choked" and "folded like an umbrella."
@christ_the_son "...you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral."
-Christopher Hitchens
Former Olympian David Hearn’s attorney tells OutFront he fears the government could refile baseless charges against Hearn despite dropping the reflecting pool case, adding his client deserves “an apology.”
"...you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral."
-Christopher Hitchens