Karen Marie's Guide to Honoring the gift of our Catholic Faith

Please click for a wonderful post by Karen Marie at From the Anchor Hold on ways to learn more about our faith and improve one's spiritual practices.

I particularly like:

"We need to develop habits of behaving like Catholics. The basic list of the things Catholics do is called the "Works of Mercy" and the way to form a habit is to do something over and over again. So, at least one merciful act every day, until mercy becomes a habitual way of life."

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And in case you would like a review of what the works of mercy are, here we go:

The traditional enumeration of the corporal works of mercy is as follows:

To feed the hungry;
To give drink to the thirsty;
To clothe the naked;
To harbour the harbourless;
To visit the sick;
To ransom the captive;
To bury the dead.


The spiritual works of mercy are:

To instruct the ignorant;
To counsel the doubtful;
To admonish sinners;
To bear wrongs patiently;
To forgive offences willingly;
To comfort the afflicted;
To pray for the living and the dead.

- from the Catholic Encyclopedia