Service

Notes from sitting in the chapel. Day 2 of "15 Days of Prayer with Saint Jeanne Jugan":

• It is a privilege and a grace to do service/ take care of another
• "Thank you for counting us worthy to stand in Your Presence and minister to you"
• This extends to parents, siblings, people no one including you wants to talk to
• It is a gift to another person to let another person help you - another opportunity for grace (Sr. Rosario)
• Let Jesus be a Good Samaritan to you, not that you have any power over what He can and cannot do, but let yourself be served
• Service should break down your pride not make you self-congratulatory
• Failures/Sins are reminders of the weakness of nature/need for God; opportunity for grace
• Lent not about "doing good", but to become re-aware
• To seeone's own sin is a grace, a great grace
• Pope JPII's Law of the Gift: All is given freely, you live to be a giving gift, as it were