Read: Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8
Reflect: Living in the Cardinal Virtue of Temperance. Temperance is the practice of self-control. The virtue of temperance gives me self-restraint and orients my body to God’s desires for me. When I love my body and keep it clean and pure, moderate what I eat and drink, continent in the use of touch and pure in all my senses, I possess self-restraint. Infused with faith, hope and love, I bring modesty, self-control and chastity into the world. I live with a pure heart.
As too great care for bodily things is reprehensible, so reasonable care is to be commended to preserve health for the service of God.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Respond: Lord, let me use the gifts I have received and pass on the love that I’ve been given.
Smitten With Goodness 