Pick a Christian virtue to grow in your life.
Ask the Holy Spirit to guide your meditation.
Reflect 10 minutes or so on that virtue.
Read something about that virtue; perhaps from the Catechism or a quote from one of the Saints.
At the end of the day ask; “How did I live this virtue today?”
Act; make a decision to implement a way to live out that virtue.
Continue this pattern for several days before moving on to another virtue.
The Apostle Paul has given and incomparable depiction of charity; “charity is patient and kind, charity is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Charity does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrong, but rejoices in the right. Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
CC1826 “If I ……(put your name here) have not charity,” says the Apostle, “I am nothing.” Whatever my privilege, service, or even virtue, “if I …..(put your name here) have not charity, I gain nothing.” Love/Charity is superior to all the virtues. It is the first of the theological virtues: “So faith, hope, charity abide, these three. But the greatest of these is love/charity.”
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