5 Spiritual Goals for the New Year
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
1. Penance on Fridays Did you know every Friday of the year is meant to be penitential, not just during Lent? An easy way to make sure you adhere to this practice is to consider going meatless on Fridays year-round. But even if not, consider how you might be more intentional about making a sacrifice every Friday.
2. Read a spiritual book. If you are like me, you probably have a lot of good Catholic books lying around that you have not gotten around to reading. Keep a book on your bedside table or in the bathroom or in the car, so it is ready when you might find yourself with a few moments of downtime.
3. Start a daily reading practice. My book, Small Steps for Catholic Moms: Your Daily Call to Think, Pray, and Act, is a do-able daily devotional, but there are many out there. Find a daily page-a-day book that appeals to you and commit to working your way through it in 2020.
4. Read the Bible every day. Are you familiar with the Bible? Do you have a copy that you can browse through easily? Whether it’s reading through the Psalms or reading the daily Mass readings, find a way to make reading a bit of Scripture part of your daily routine.
5. Begin and end your day with deliberate prayer. We have talked about praying a Morning offering many times before, but now I want to not only remind of the importance of the morning offering, but also encourage you to make the Examen part of your daily prayer practice at the end of the day.
With all of these suggestions, it’s important to start small and make steady progress toward your goals. Pick one or maybe two of these ideas to get you started, and then let me know how it is going for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, episode number 205, 6 spiritual resolutions for 2020. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy |
| 0:21.8 | and family living. This week, we are talking about spiritual resolutions you might want to consider |
| 0:26.4 | taking on in this, the brand spanking new year. Can't wait to start this conversation with you. Let's go. |
| 0:36.9 | Hey, girlfriends, how are you? I feel like I should say welcome back to me and to you, because this is actually the first time I'm sitting down to record Girlfriends in 2020. |
| 0:50.3 | In anticipation of the holidays and my son's wedding, which was January 3rd, I pre-recorded a ton |
| 0:57.0 | at the end of last year. So I kind of got ahead of myself and which was very helpful for schedules |
| 1:01.7 | and whatnot. But I've missed connecting with you guys. I've missed being here. I feel a little bit |
| 1:07.1 | out of touch. So I am so glad to be back here recording today in 2020. How's your |
| 1:14.0 | 2020 going? Mine is off to a great start. I already mentioned my son's wedding, which was January |
| 1:19.3 | 3rd, which was a lovely event. I absolutely loved meeting a lot of his friends actually for some of them I'd met before, but |
| 1:28.6 | meeting some of his friends from school for the very first time. And it was just a beautiful, |
| 1:33.9 | beautiful day. I'm still crying a little bit. Happy tears. Happy tears. But it was so great to meet |
| 1:40.3 | some of his friends, to meet some of my daughter's friends from school, and have the |
| 1:45.2 | families get together in what was ultimately such a joy-filled celebration. My son and his new wife, |
| 1:53.4 | Paulina, are currently on their honeymoon, and we're getting pictures sent back, so they are |
| 1:58.4 | communicating a little bit, thrilled and happy to be beginning the new year this way. |
| 2:03.8 | I did happen to at the wedding and the events around the wedding, meet some people, some young |
| 2:10.0 | people who listen to the girlfriend's podcast, and it got mentioned. |
| 2:13.3 | I didn't get to meet this young lady, but I follow this young lady on Instagram because she's a roommate of my daughter at Ave Maria University. |
| 2:21.4 | I do want to give a shout out and a hello to Emma. |
| 2:25.1 | Hi, Emma. |
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