Virtues in Practice: Patience
Patience Waiting or enduring without complaint Difficulties, annoyances, suffering, etc. Control of emotions Waiting on the Lord
Prayed for son and husband to know Jesus PreK-2nd Grade St. Monica Both converted Her son is Saint Augustine Prayed for son and husband to know Jesus
3rd-5th Grades: St. Isaac Jogues Missionary to N.A.; 1st to NY Preached to Nat. Amer. Learned Mohawk language Converted many Tortured; killed by Nat. Amer.
6th-8th: St. Rita of Cascia Suffering: marriage; abuse; death of husband; loss of sons; denied entry to convent Partial stigmata→ 15 years 4 yrs b/f death → unable to eat
Live it Out! Choose to wait for something Pray when waiting Refrain from complaining Persevere when learning something new
1st Week of Advent
and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here O come, O come, Immanuel, and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel shall come to you, O Israel.
O come, O Wisdom from on high, who ordered all things mightily; to us the path of knowledge show and teach us in its ways to go.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel shall come to you, O Israel.